During 25 years of work, the Rural Poverty Reduction Programme (LUCOP) has developed soil and water conservation/soil protection and restoration (SWC/SPR) methods adapted to forest and rangeland on plateaux, slopes, cropland and valley bottoms. Overall, the SWC/SPR measures covered 354,294 hectares of cropland, 165,743 hectares of forest and ranggeland and 8,132 hectares of valley bottoms. Some 700.000 people have benefited directly from the measures and tens of thousands of people have received training.

Monitoring shows that the average millet yield has more than doubled. The annual additional grain yield of 210 kg per hectare corresponds roughly to one person's annual cereal requirement. The extra grain prouced each year amounts to approximately 74,000 tonnes, enough to feed around 350,000 people. Even in dry years, the improved land still provides a harvest that is close to that of an untreated field in an ordinary year.