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History and impacts of dryland restoration in Yatenga, Burkina Faso. Included in Restoring African Drylands

Reports & Research
December, 2020
Burkina Faso, Western Africa
Forest Landscape Restoration
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
drylands
food security
land restoration
smallholders
sustainable land management
Since the mid-1980s, the positive impacts of these simple, cost-efficient water harvesting techniques become clear, following their increasingly widespread adoption. Their use has allowed smallholders to reverse land degradation, improve soil fertility, sustainably increase crop production, achieve food security, and create more productive, diverse and resilient farming systems. At the same time, groundwater is recharged, improving access to drinking water for the entire year, and creating opportunities for irrigated vegetable gardening around wells.
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Case Study: Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana

Reports & Research
October, 2016
Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire
Land Conflicts
land policies
environment
climate change
land conflicts
farmers
This chapter is a case study that tests hypotheses in order to determine if political factors can reduce violence in cases of climate-change-induced or -aggravated agro-pastoral conflicts over natural resources. Three West African countries were selected because of their common socio-economic and environmental characteristics and because they host comparable farmer–herder conflicts: Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The level of farmer–herder conflicts is estimated to have risen between 1960 and 2000 in the three countries.
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Irrigation in West Africa: Current Status and a View to the Future, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 1-2 December 2010

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2014
Burkina Faso
Urban Tenure
land acquisitions
land
farmers
climate change
water management
land tenure
urbanization
land management
poverty
food security
land use
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Growing Africa

Unlocking the Potential of Agribusiness

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
March, 2013
Kenya, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Ghana, Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
agriculture
capacity development
climate change
contract farming
farmers
fisheries
food security
forestry
land management
property rights
rural areas
sustainable development
transaction costs
This report highlights the great potential of the agribusiness sector in Africa by drawing on experience in Africa as well as other regions. The evidence demonstrates that good policies, a conducive business environment, and strategic support from governments can help agribusiness reach its potential. Africa is now at a crossroads, from which it can take concrete steps to realize its potential or continue to lose competitiveness, missing a major opportunity for increased growth, employment, and food security. The report pursues several lines of analysis.
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Les conditions foncières de la viabilité de la riziculture irriguée

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2015
Western Africa, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
farmers
rural development
tenure security
water management
L’analyse des aménagements hydro-agricoles en Afrique de l’Ouest permet de tirer des leçons concernant l’affectation foncière, qui peuvent servir pour orienter les aménagements en cours, ou ceux qui sont prévus dans les années à venir. Sans affectation foncière adéquate, les objectifs principaux des barrages – la lutte contre la pauvreté et l’amélioration de la production nationale de céréales – pourront difficilement être atteints.
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Changes in in "customary" land tenure systems in Africa

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2006
Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria, Belgium, Rwanda, Mali, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Niger, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, France, Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
property rights
customary law
customary tenure
farming systems
farmers
natural resources management
land governance
private ownership
land tenure
Indigenous Peoples
land tenure systems
land ownership
indigenous people's tenure
Across rural Africa, land legislation struggles to be properly implemented, and most resource users gain access to land on the basis of local land tenure systems.
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La vulgarisation forestière

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1996
Burkina Faso, Pakistan
Forest Tenure
decentralization
public ownership
farmers
research
forestry
forest land
women
Le prsent numro d'Unasylva examine les dfis que doit relever la vulgarisation forestire et les efforts dploys actuellement en ce sens.
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Forestry extension

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1996
India, Burkina Faso, Pakistan, United States of America
Forest Tenure
decentralization
public ownership
farmers
research
forestry
forest land
women
This issue of Unasylva focuses on the challenges facing forestry extension and current attempts to respond to them.
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Réforme Agraire: Colonisation et coopératives agricoles 1999/1-2

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1999
Burkina Faso, Philippines, Central African Republic, Italy
Land & Investments
land consolidation
land registration
cadastres
right of access
farmers associations
leases
customary law
farmers
land use
research
collective ownership
poverty
rural development
land tenure
agricultural land management
land policies
land
land governance
land markets
private ownership
land reform
agrarian reform
land ownership
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Strengthening family farms: a path to follow in combatting poverty in Africa

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2016
Burkina Faso
farming systems
farmers
poverty
rural development
land transfers
tenure security
land tenure systems
land policies
land governance
A project in Burkina Faso has given a clear demonstration of what supporting family farms can achieve in terms of poverty alleviation and rural development. One important success factor was the transfer of land to farmers, accompanied by a secure land-tenure policy adapted to their needs.