Ecole Polytechnique de Thiès, Senegal

I am currently working in the civil engineering department at the Polytechnic School of Thiès. My research focuses on urban planning and engineering, and the assessment of socio-environmental dynamics and landscapes using geomatics and environmental science tools. Defining myself as a "border-crosser", I am deeply convinced that the mobilization of disciplinary knowledge and approaches in an interdisciplinary perspective will enable our beloved continent, Africa, to become resilient to climate change. 

Research:
My doctoral work focused on developing a geographical approach to the issue of the vulnerability of Sahelian anthroposystems, using the semi-arid Ferlo region in northern Senegal as a case study. The pastoral anthroposystem of Senegal's Ferlo region evolves in an environment historically neglected by agricultural policies due to its particular biophysical characteristics, unfavorable to agriculture and to any form of development other than extensive livestock farming, including transhumance. The latter makes it possible to exploit resources that vary greatly in space and time. This primacy of itinerant livestock farming is now being increasingly challenged by the development of agriculture in a context marked by improved rainfall conditions throughout the West African Sahel, the exhaustion of land in the Groundnut?Basin and the proliferation of agricultural developments in the Senegal River valley. By combining the analysis of remotely sensed images to map the evolution of land use by vegetation cover, the study of flora and the vegetation landscape and the use of surveys in the villages and camps of the Ferlo, this thesis attempts to define the geography of the vulnerability of rural populations and the ecosystems they use. Herders and pastoralists evolve with daily adaptation strategies in these environments of inland Senegal, marked by profound ecological instability and by the transformations at work in Senegalese rural society. These considerable socio-environmental changes thus contribute to the dynamics of plant landscapes and, beyond that, raise the question of ecosystem degradation. 

Current affiliation:
Ecole Polytechnique de Thiès. Associate Professor – Head of Civil Engineering department

Projects:
2023 – 2024: Restoration and Monitoring of Degraded Lands in the Groundnut Basin of the Saloum Delta in Senegal. Project financed by UNESCO through IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) Fund).  

2023 – 2025: Improving human health and livelihood through reducing open burning waste in Senegal- Project financed by Engineering X of Great Britain (EPT – Practical Action – SONAGED).   

2023 – 2027: WAWATER West African WAter Tower Eco-agrosystem Resilience. Funded by National Research Agency France.   

2024 – 2027: Erasmus+ NbS4AfrRes (Nature-based Solutions for African Resilience) (UCT – (Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 - EPT – UCAD –TU DELFT – AgroParisTech – INRAE) funded by EU – ERAMUS + Capacity Building in Higher Education. 

Publications:
C. FAYE, S. DIÈYE & A. FALL (2023). Impacts of changes in human behavior on water erosion in Senegal: the case of the Soungrougrou catchment area (tributary of the Casamance River). Revue Marocaine de Géomorphologie. N°6. (2022). PP 60- 82. ISSN: 2508-9382.? 

SOUMARE S, ANDRIEU J, FALL A, DIAW E.H.B & DESCROIX L. (2022) Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Rain-NDVI Relationship in Lower and Middle Casamance from 1982 to 2019. Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences 5, 246–262 (2022).?? 

B. E. A. DIEME, A. FALL, C. DIATTA, and E. B. DIAW. 2022, The place of trees in homes in the urban district of Sédhiou. IOSR Journal of Engineering 12(7):08-24. International Journal of Innovative Research in Science Engineering and Technology 7(2):636 - 643.?? 

FAYE C. S, FALL A, FAYE M, SAMBOU H & DIAW E.H.B. 2022. Automatic Parceling of Rice Fields based on Sentinel 2 Images and Convolutional Neural Networks in the Valley of the Senegal River. International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology: 7 pp. 636-643. (2).?? 

M. L. LO, M. M. FALL, A. FALL, I. DIAO. (2022) Study of Soil Vulnerability to Water Erosion in the Kissane Watershed by the Improved Bouyoucos Method. Journal of Scientific And Engineering Research ISSN: 2394-2630 CODEN (USA): JSERBR? 

S. DIÈYE, C. FAYE, A. FALL and P. C. SAMBOU (2021) Use of the standardized precipitation and evapotranspiration index (SPEI) from 1961 to 2019 to characterize the drought trend in northern Senegal: Study of the spatial and temporal dynamics in the Ferlo watershed. Advance in Environmental Waste Management & Recycling, 4(3):232-244.?? 

Faye, S. Dièye, A. Fall and B. Solly. 2021. Flood risk mapping at river basin scale using the flood potential index: Case of the Niéri-Ko sub-basin (Gambia River Basin) International Journal of Water and Environmental Sciences and Technology, Vol. (vi), No.1, April 2021, pp. 40-51 ISSN Online: 1737-9350; ISSN Print: 1737-6688, Open Access?? 

FAYE, C., SOLLY, B., DIÈYE, S., & FALL, A. (2021). Evaluating of the potential groundwater zones using GIS and remote sensing. Case study of Sandougou sub-basin (Gambia Basin). African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 4(1), 53–75.?

Connections:
EPT website - https://ept.sn/annuaire/ababacar-fall/ 
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ababacar-fall-912606204 
X/Twitter - https://x.com/diambar28 
Researchgate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ababacar-Fall 
ORCID - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1565-1979 
Scopus - https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57204354629 
HAL Sciences - https://cv.hal.science/ababacar-fall 

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