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  1. Library Resource
    National Policies
    Burkina Faso, Africa, Western Africa

    Le présent Programme national du secteur rural du Burkina Faso(PNSR, 2011-2015), est le cadre d’opérationnalisation de la Stratégie de développement rural (SDR) et du volet développement rural de la Stratégie de croissance accélérée et de développement durable (SCADD, 2011-2015).

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2004
    Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Burkina Faso

    "This paper describes the emergence of improved traditional planting pits (zaï) in Burkina Faso in the early 1980s as well as their advantages, disadvantages and impact. The zaï emerged in a context of recurrent droughts and frequent harvest failures, which triggered farmers to start improving this local practice. Despair triggered experimentation and innovation by farmers. These processes were supported and complemented by external intervention. Between 1985 and 2000 substantial public investment has taken place in soil and water conservation (SWC).

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1993
    Burkina Faso, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa, Georgia, Mali, Zimbabwe, Italy, Ghana, Venezuela, Sudan, Niger, Cameroon
  4. Library Resource
    Climate Change, Land and Resource Governance, and Violent Extremism: Spotlight on the African Sahel
    Reports & Research
    May, 2019
    Algeria, Sudan, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal

    Tetra Tech’s land tenure and property rights experts examine how weak land and resource governance can fuel drivers of violent extremism. With a focus on the African Sahel, this new issue brief finds this dynamic is especially prevalent when land and resource governance challenges are coupled with environmental disruptions, resource scarcity, or migration.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2020
    Western Sahara, Burkina Faso

    Dans le contexte sahélien, depuis la fin des années 2010 des discours normatifs sur la jeunesse et le pastoralisme se sont développés, trop souvent basés sur des catégories standards impropres à décrire les réalités locales et associées dans une chaine de causalité trompeuse: désœuvrement des jeunes, migrations, participation aux violences armées, conflits violents catégorisés de manière simpliste comme ethniques et socioprofessionnels, économie criminelle, dégradation des ressources, changement climatique.Il y a un paradoxe entre le développement de ces discours généraux et le manque de do

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2020
    Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Algeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad

    ‘Over the past three decades hundreds of thousands of farmers in Burkina Faso and Niger, on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, have transformed large swathes of the region’s arid landscape into productive agricultural land, improving food security for about three million people. Once-denuded landscapes are now home to abundant trees, crops, and livestock.'

  7. Library Resource
    October, 2018
    Burkina Faso

    In June 2018;the President of Burkina Faso enacted a new agriculture investment code;aiming at promoting productive investments in livestock;fisheries;forestry and fauna management. It establishes an enabling environment and creates incentives to boost investment in the targeted sectors. Despite some shortcomings that can be fixed through implementation;the code is an important step in the right direction to attract responsible investment.

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