Buy Burkinabè! Yam Pukri's Agripol advocacy platform in Burkina Faso

The 2014–15 season was a difficult one for women’s rice-marketing cooperatives in Burkina Faso. Locally grown rice was slightly more expensive than imported grain, and big imports in the previous years meant that small-scale rice farmers and cooperatives were no longer able to sell their grain. Thei...

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Main Authors: Ouédraogo, Sylvestre, Sawadogo, Théophile Assane
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 2017
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100772
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description The 2014–15 season was a difficult one for women’s rice-marketing cooperatives in Burkina Faso. Locally grown rice was slightly more expensive than imported grain, and big imports in the previous years meant that small-scale rice farmers and cooperatives were no longer able to sell their grain. Their national association, UNERIZ, was left with over 2,000 tonnes of unsold stock. Growers who had borrowed to invest in production were unable to repay their debts. A change in government policy to prioritise locally grown grain and to deter imports would help. But the Comité Interprofessionnel du Riz du Burkina, the group mandated to lobby on the growers’ behalf, lacked the tools to put pressure on the government. So Agripol, a CTA-supported project run by Yam Pukri, stepped in to help. It used social media to call on people to choose locally grown rice.
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spelling CGSpace1007722025-03-13T09:46:55Z Buy Burkinabè! Yam Pukri's Agripol advocacy platform in Burkina Faso Ouédraogo, Sylvestre Sawadogo, Théophile Assane The 2014–15 season was a difficult one for women’s rice-marketing cooperatives in Burkina Faso. Locally grown rice was slightly more expensive than imported grain, and big imports in the previous years meant that small-scale rice farmers and cooperatives were no longer able to sell their grain. Their national association, UNERIZ, was left with over 2,000 tonnes of unsold stock. Growers who had borrowed to invest in production were unable to repay their debts. A change in government policy to prioritise locally grown grain and to deter imports would help. But the Comité Interprofessionnel du Riz du Burkina, the group mandated to lobby on the growers’ behalf, lacked the tools to put pressure on the government. So Agripol, a CTA-supported project run by Yam Pukri, stepped in to help. It used social media to call on people to choose locally grown rice. 2017-12-31 2019-04-12T12:32:24Z 2019-04-12T12:32:24Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100772 en Open Access application/pdf Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation Ouédraogo, Sylvestre, Sawadogo, Théophile Assane. Buy Burkinabè! Yam Pukri’s Agripol advocacy platform in Burkina Faso. 2017. CTA Technical Brief 11. Wageningen: CTA
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