Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa whose economy is heavily dependent on the primary sector. Cotton production traditionally represented the country's economic engine, but the sector has been in some decline in recent years.
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Land Area
27,360,000 ha
GDP/Capita
2,179.8 USD
Total population
22,100,700
Urban population
29.4 %
Land-related indicators
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Agricultural land
44.2 %
Perceived tenure security
54.5 %
Women owning land
4.1 %
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04 January 2024
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Are you passionate about upholding Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LC) rights and supporting the protection of forests and biodiversity and the governance of IPLC land and forests in the African continent?
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30 January 2023
NELGA has put out nine country profiles about South Sudan, South Africa, Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Egypt, and Mauritania. These profiles give information about pastoralism and small-scale agriculture in these countries. Through research on the current state of land governance…
13 July 2022
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Burkina Faso has a long tradition of artisanal gold panning, which began even before colonization, at least since the 15th century.
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07 December 2023
Dans un exposé TED de 2009, visionné plus de 35 millions de fois, la romancière nigériane Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie parle du danger d'une histoire unique et des simplifications qu'elle favorise. Ses observations sont tout à fait pertinentes dans le cas du Sahel. Les médias et la sphère politique…
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Around the world, insecure property rights prevent families from feeling confident about the future, businesses from investing, and communities from becoming more productive. Hundreds of millions of us lack property security. This makes the world poorer, less free, and less just.
There is a growing…