Search Results - "Burkina Faso"

Co-designing technical innovations in the context of agroecological living landscapes by Triomphe, Bernard, Ouattara, Songdah Désiré, Kumar, Gopal, Fuchs, Lisa E., Sánchez Choy, José G., Piraux, Marc, Mannai, Amal, Telma, Sibanda, Sib, Ollo, Smith, B., Vall, Eric, Maliappan, Sudharsan, Gaderwar, Pragya, Korir, Hezekiah, Bolo, Peter, Douangsavanh, S., Dubois, Marc, Monserrate, Fredy, Tristan Febres, Maria, Kaoukou, Patrice, Rüdiger, Udo, Mhamed, Hatem Cheikh, Chimonyo, Vimbayi, Baudron, Frédéric

“…This report documents the processes, results, and key learnings from implementing co-design approaches for agroecological innovations across eight countries (Burkina Faso, India, Kenya, Laos, Peru, Senegal, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe) during 2023-2024, as part of Work Package 1 of the CGIAR Agroecology Initiative. …”
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Integrated farming enhances rainwater and soil productivity by Tabo, Ramadjita

“…Analysis of the data is not yet complete, but the responses of participating farmers in Ghana and Burkina Faso to the SEF suggest that they are delighted at the prospect of a diversified and integrated production system that addresses most of their problems. …”
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Ecological niche modeling approach for assessing potential for expansion of irrigated rice under alternate wetting and drying method by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The approach was developed and validated for irrigated schemes of Burkina Faso. The evaluation metrics of the machine learning approach showed values higher than 80%. …”
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How smallholder farmers adapt to climate change: Stories from West Africa by Nana H

“…Helene Nana is a female farmer from the Yatenga province in Burkina Faso. She describes in the video how she moved from famine to have more than enough income to get her children to school. …”
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Radio spot on sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas): Capsule radio sur la patate douce (Ipomoea batatas) by Sana, Halizata, Borelli, Teresa

“…Part of a larger information campaign on neglected and underutilized species (NUS), this radio spot uses simple, colloquial language and daily life settings to promote NUS that were once common on farms and in the diets of people living in Burkina Faso and Niger. The radio campaign aims to promote local nutritious crops, which can be included in sustainable, climate-smart agriculture as well as become potential sources of income.…”
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ACLED Conflict Index G5 Sahel (2018-2023) by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset contains the ACLED conflict index, its classification, and related underlying dimensions and rankings of deadliness, danger, diffusion, and fragmentation for the 279 second-level administrative areas of Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad between 2018 and 2023. …”
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Biofuels and grain prices: Impacts and policy responses by Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…In response to the price hikes, food riots have occurred in many developing countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, C?te d'Ivoire, Egypt, Haiti, Indonesia, Senegal, and Somalia. …”
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Crisis at the crossroads: Climate, peace, and security in the Sahel by Fatimata, Kone

“…This region, encompassing countries like Mali and Burkina Faso, is particularly vulnerable to climate change due to its reliance on rain-fed agriculture and limited natural resources. …”
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Essais d'intensification de la production animale en zone sahelo-soudanienne: Alimentation intensive de jeunes ovins dans le nord du Burkina by Bourzat, D., Bonkoungou, E., Richard, D., Sanfo, R.

“…Esquisse sur quatre essais d'alimentation intensive effectues pour connaitre le potentiel de croissance des moutons de race Mossi et Peul de la region du Yatenga au Burkina Faso, avec donnees sur les indices de consommation et les gains de poids moyens quotidiens de moutons.…”
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Integrated Management of rainwater for crop-livestock agroecosystems by CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

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Research approach in the Volta Basin Development Challenge not 'business as usual' by Ayantunde, Augustine A.

“…The project aims to evaluate and test best fit rainwater management strategies in Ghana and Burkina Faso. According to Ayantunde, the approach of the project is not 'business as usual.' …”
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Les organisations paysannes sont-elles pretes a autogerer les amenagements hydro-agricoles?: representant regional de I'IIMI pour I'Afrique de I'ouest. In FrenchAre the farmer orga... by Legoupil, J.C.

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Launch of the second phase of the negotiations by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…On October 6th the second regionally based second-phase negotiations were launched in west Africa with ECOWAS -the Economic Community of West African States - which includes Cape Verde, Guinea; Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and WAEMA - West African Economic and Monetary Union - which includes. Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire Guinea Bissau; Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo......…”
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Improving the breeding, cultivation and use of sweetpotato in Africa by Abidin, P.E., Carey, E.E.

“…This chapter examines the nutritional contribution made by OFSP (orange-fleshed sweetpotato) in poor rural communities in Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria and Burkina Faso; sustainable breeding and seed systems; and effective commercialisation and marketing to benefit the communities concerned. …”
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Report of the TAC Panel on Research on Livestock Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee Panel on Research on Livestock Diseases in Sub Saharan Africa

“…The panel also looked at the Centre de Recherche sur les Trypanosomoses Animales (CRTA), or the Center for Research on Animal Trypanosomiasis, a regional organization based in Burkina Faso.Rather than proposing support for any of the three non associated centers as such, the panel recommended that ILCA and ILRAD incorporate those aspects of the three centers' programs that were relevant to strategic international research. …”
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Testing the Various Pathways Linking Forest Cover to Dietary Diversity in Tropical Landscapes by Baudron, Frédéric, Tomscha, S.A., Powell, B., Groot, Jeroen C.J., Gergel, Sarah E., Sunderland, T.C.H.

“…We used piece-wise structural equation modelling to test and quantify the relative contribution of these three pathways for households in seven tropical landscapes in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Nicaragua and Zambia. …”
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Herbage accumulation and nutritive value of cultivar Mulato II, Congo grass, and Guinea grass cultivar C1 in a subhumid zone of West Africa by Nouhoun, Z., Tidiane, T.C., Epiphanie, S.T.B.P., Ayantunde, Augustine A., Prasad, Kodukula V.S.V., Blümmel, Michael, Balehegn, M., Ríos, E.F., Dubeux, J.C.B., Boote, Kenneth J., Adesogan, Adegbola T.

“…Mulato II showed potential to increase forage productivity and NV in Burkina Faso.…”
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Food flow analysis: the role of locality in feeding cities [Abstract only] by Karg, H., Akoto-Danso, Edmund K., Schlesinger, J., Nyarko, G., Drechsel, Pay

“…This study as part of two PhD projects aims to quantify and map food flows supplying urban populations in the cities of Tamale, Ghana and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, both cities that are characterised by high urban growth rates and high incidences of food insecurity. …”
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Sugar host preferences in adult Anopheles coluzzii by Malmgren, Louise

“…This study was aimed at testing the discriminative sugar source selection of males and females of An. coluzzii among plant species found during the dry season in South-western Burkina Faso. In the field, data was collected on visits to glue traps containing six common fruit- or flower bearing plant species of the area, by malaria vectors of locally present anopheline species as well as nonmalaria vectors of the Culex genus. …”
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Evidence for Resilient Agriculture informs over USD 1 billion in investment plans and 3 subnational adaptation plans by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…In 2019, ERA was a critical data source for the development of four climate-smart agriculture investment plans for Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Burkina Faso and supported the design of three adaptation plans in three Kenyan counties.…”
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