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Project Goals/Objectives
• Have self – sustainable communities by
exporting mangoes
• Within 10 years, we anticipate
improvement in the Southwestern
Senegalese income
Assessment
Use of FAO website
Mango production &
% undernourished
GDP data
Income levels
Mangos exported
Feeding Senegal’s Economy Sirry Abdelrahman (CE), Michaella Balicki (ChE),
Jasmine Higuera (ME), and Alex Witkin (BME)
Advisor: Professor Sharon Wulf (BUS) and Professor Kristin Wobbe (UGS)
References • Dyhia Belhabib, Viviane Koutob, Aliou Sall, Vicky W.Y. Lam, Daniel Pauly,
Fisheries catch misreporting and its implications: The case of Senegal, Fisheries
Research, Volume 151, March 2014, Pages 1-11, ISSN 0165-7836
• The World Bank: Senegal. (2014, January 1). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
• Senegal – Temperature Map. (2014, January 1). Retrieved December 3, 2014.
• Paull, Robert E., Duarte, Odilo. (2014, November). Crop Production Science in
Horticulture, Volume 20 : Tropical Fruits, Volume 1 (2nd Edition)
• Senegal – Precipitation Map. (2014, January 1). Retrieved December 3, 2014.
• Mango in supermarket colombia. (2011, November 5). Retrieved December 3,
2014.
• Senegal River. (2014, March 12). Retrieved December 7, 2014.
Why Mangoes?
Farm School
•Work under Heifer International
•Educate 15 – 25 yr. olds on how to properly grow mangoes
Create Jobs
•Create white-fly traps to prevent harm towards mangoes
•Increase production for mango exportation 10 fold
Economic Benefits
•Increase Senegal’s income by 10%
•Citizens can afford nutritious food
Solution Process Problem
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Top Production of
Mango, 2009
Production (int $1000) Production (MT) Senegal can become a
successful mango
producer and exporter
similar to how Brazil
became the number one
producer and exporter
of oranges.
Focus on farming mangoes
Recommendation/Conclusions
Increase Senegalese
income
Increase mango exports
Starvation in Senegal caused
by poor economy
Mango. (2014, September 12). Retrieved December 8, 2014.
Mango oil. (2014, November 23). Retrieved December 8, 2014.
Senegal River. (2014, March 12). Retrieved December 8, 2014.