This has to be accomplished against a
background of high illiteracy rates, rapidly growing
populations, low and erratic rainfall, inherently infertile
soils, and development strategies which have had a strong
urban bias.…
As a program designed for bridging research to development outcome, the CPWF considers regular reflection, learning and adaptive management as crucial elements in the implementation of the basin programs. Reflection implies that the project teams and key stakeholders take stock of what is going…
L’agriculture contribue à environ 40 % du PIB et assure emplois et revenus à 86 % des Burkinabé. La forte dépendance des populations rurales vis-à-vis de l’agriculture non irriguée, accentue leur vulnérabilité aux changements climatiques. Cette situation a entraîné des stratégies d’adaptations…
Introduction: in Ghana traditional leaders are considered owners of all natural resources. In that vein, its management cannot be done without them.
Some questions:
How is your project linked to each of these stakeholders? What is a “boundary partner”? How do you define “end user” and “next user”? Where are the bi-lateral organizations, e.g. DANIDA? How is your project linked your end/next users’ partners? How do these links affect…
The Black Volta Basin provides a major water resource in Ghana and the Upper West region in particular. Agriculture is the main occupation of majority of the inhabitants, but this is normally done on subsistence basis.
The management of water for agricultural purposes under various…
Le Burkina Faso s’est engagé depuis une quinzaine d’années à mettre en place un mécanisme de gestion intégrée des ressources matérialisé par l’adoption d’un plan d’action GIRE (PAGIRE) et la mise en place d’une trentaine de Comité Local de l’Eau (CLE). Le CLE apparait alors comme le maillon…
The objective of this report is to
identify ways of enhancing competitiveness through sector
reforms in Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali (the
Cotton-4). The report promotes best practices to manage cost
and define sales…
This paper reports on a four-site study conducted in the Sahelian zone of Niger. The study takes a novel mixed methods approach for understanding conflict management from the perspective of rural peoples by not only describing past highly publicized conflicts but also by analyzing the steps…
Few regions present bigger development challenges than the African drylands – home to nearly 300 million people, and the vast majority of Africa’s poor. Food security and rural welfare in these areas are limited by a range of factors, biophysical, socio-economic and policy-related. And many of…
West and East Africa experience high vari- ability of rainfall that is expected to increase with climate change. This results in fluctuations in water availability for food production and other socioeconomic activities. Water harvesting and storage can mitigate the adverse effects of rainfall…