Search Results - "Burkina Faso"

Policy and programmatic changes resulting from the biennial reviews and agriculture joint sector reviews under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). T... by Matchaya, Greenwell C., Yade, M., Guthiga, P., Tefera, W., Yamdjeu, A. W.

“…It is based on data and other information collected using an online questionnaire from the Directors of Agricultural Planning, or their representatives, from 14 countries—Angola, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Zambia— and from representatives of two RECs, the East African Community and the Southern African Development Community. …”
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Farmer-Fulani pastoralist conflicts in Northern Ghana: are integrated landscape approaches the way forward? by Bayala, E., Ros-Tonen, M., Sunderland, T.C.H., Djoudi, H., Reed, J.

“…The experience of Burkina Faso in managing farmer-herder conflicts is presented to inform lessons for Ghana. …”
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Poverty impacts of food price increases in Nigeria by Minot, Nicholas, Martin, Will

“…The other briefs cover Kenya, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali (see Minot and Martin, 2023a and 2023b; Martin and Minot, 2023a, 2023b, and 2023c). …”
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A seven-year study of large mammal populations in the Sahel, West Africa by Hema, E.M., Belemsobgo, U., Ouattara, Y., Tou, I.M., Sanou, Y., Karama, M., Fa, J.E., Luiselli, L.

“…Here we examine some aspects of the ecology of a community of twenty different large mammal species in a savannah of Burkina Faso, for a relatively long-term period (seven years). …”
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Partners in Technology Generation and Transfer: Linkages between Research and Farmers Organizations in Three Selected African Countries by Eponou, Thomas

“…Three countries in sub-Saharan Africa were studied: Burkina Faso, Ghana and Kenya. There are differences among the three countries of the study, but the five major types of farmers' organizations/groups were found in each of them. …”
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Renforcement du Rôle des Universités au sein des Systèmes Nationaux de Recherche Agricole d’Afrique Subsaharienne. Points Forts d’un Atelier de Travail by Michelsen, Heike, Shapiro, D.

“…Cette rencontre clôturait le projet intitulé « Renforcement du rôle des universités au sein des systèmes nationaux de recherche agricole » en faisant la synthèse des expériences vécues ainsi que des résultats des six études de cas effectuées au Bénin, au Burkina Faso, en Côte-d'Ivoire, au Nigeria, en Ouganda et au Zimbabwe. …”
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Female community-based agents: Archetypes and experience with farmers by Kaur, Jasleen

“…Through this model, AGRA identifies and trains lead farmers to be VBAs and support other farmers in the area. 60 Decibels conducted a study to help AGRA explore VBA archetypes and experience with farmers in Burkina Faso and Nigeria. We are also currently undertaking the last of the three studies to understand VBAs’ journeys. …”
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Political violence in the G5 Sahel Countries (2018-2023): An application of ACLED’s conflict index methodology by Marivoet, Wim, Hema, Aboubacar, Nsaibia, Heni

“…Over the past decade, the G5 Sahel countries (Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad) have seen their security situation substantially worsen, following a combination of political instability, jihadist insurgencies and the proliferation of local militias. …”
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Ghana's onion market by Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana, International Food Policy Research Institute, Amewu, Sena, Arhin, Eunice, Danso, Jane, Doughan, Roland Ato, Nafrah, Christiana, Owusu, Ivy, Pauw, Karl

“…Despite being widely consumed, onion production in Ghana falls well short of demand with imports coming in from neighboring Niger and Burkina Faso even during the peak local production season. …”
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The case of tomato in Ghana: Institutional support by Robinson, Elizabeth J. Z., Kolavalli, Shashidhara

“…Over the past two decades processing has all but stopped; yields and production of fresh tomato in Ghana have stagnated and possibly fallen; while in parallel, imports of fresh tomato from Burkina Faso and tomato paste from the EU and China have increased dramatically. …”
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Economywide impact of avian flu in Nigeria – a dynamic CGE model analysis by Diao, Xinshen, Alpuerto, Vida, Nwafor, Manson

“…Since its emergence in Africa in 2006, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus of the H5N1 subtype has spread rapidly to poultry farms in several countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, and Nigeria (FAO 2006; OIE 2006). …”
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Training sessions of volunteer dairy farmers during the workshops lauching the 2024 campaign of experimentation of agroecological technologies by Ouattara Songdah, Désiré, Sib, Ollo, Traore, Issouf, Ouattara, Baba, Vall, Eric

“…In 2023, as part of the Initiative on agroecology project, a loop and cascade approach to action on dairy farms was implemented to co-design more agroecological dairy farming systems with dairy farmers in Burkina Faso. An On-farm Experimental Design for Agroecology (OnEDA ; Dispositif Expérimental Agroécologique en Milieu Paysan – DEAMP in french) was set up with volunteer farmers. …”
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Improving equity and livelihoods in community forestry: a global action research initiative in support of a strategic partnership on rights and resources by Larson, A.M.

“…The countries are in Asia (India, Nepal and the Philippines), Africa (Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Ghana) and Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala and Nicaragua). …”
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Baseline GHG emissions from the agricultural sector and mitigation potential in countries of East and West Africa by Brown, S., Grais A, Ambagis S, Pearson T

“…To address this question, we first estimated the business-as-usual emissions of greenhouse gases from the agricultural sector using the IPCC framework and land cover datasets based satellite imagery for the base year 2006 for four East African countries— Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and five West African countries—Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. We found the total emissions to be in the order of about 129 million t CO2e/yr., with emissions from activities related to livestock dominating (84% of the total). …”
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Economic analysis of animal disease control inputs at farm level: the case of trypanocide use in villages under risk of drug resistance in West Africa by Affognon, Hippolyte D., Randolph, Thomas F., Waibel, H.

“…This paper presents an economic analysis of the use of drugs (isometamidium and diminazene) in controlling African Animal Trypanosomosis (AAT), a serious disease of cattle and small ruminants in villages that exhibit resistance to isometamidium in Burkina Faso and Mali in West Africa. The study applies a production function framework integrating a damage control function to assess the short term productivity effect of trypanocide use under different epidemiological conditions. …”
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Report of the VBDC Capitalization Workshop by CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

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Rainwater harvesting technologies in the Sahelian zone of West Africa and the potential for outscaling by Barry, Boubacar, Olaleye, Adesola O., Zougmoré, Robert B., Fatondji, D.

“…In West Africa, especially in the Sahelian countries of Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali and Mauritania, erratic rainfall sequences within and between years has often led to a high uncertainty in rainfed crop production. …”
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A novel strategy to discover and use climate-adapted germplasm by Vernooy, Ronnie, Otieno, G., Bessette, Guy, Fadda, Carlo, Galluzzi, G., Gevel, Jeske M.J, van de, Halewood, Michael, López Noriega, Isabel, Mathur, P.N., Mittra, S., Rudebjer, P.G., Steinke, J., Sthapit, B.R., Etten, Jacob van, Zonneveld, Maarten van

“…Between 2012 and 2015, 150 researchers, research managers, gene bank managers, extension agents, university professors and staff of non-government organizations from Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe acquired new knowledge and skills about the use of climate and crop modelling tools and data sources including the climate analogue tool introduced through the CGIAR research programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). …”
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Mainstreaming human nutrition in livestock interventions: lessons learnt from a capacity building workshop for the Sahel region by Domínguez Salas, Paula, Kauffman, D., Breyne, C., Alarcón, Pablo

“…A total of 57 nutrition and/or livestock experts working in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal or at regional level participated. …”
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An orphan crop, the orange-fleshed sweet potato, in West Africa: Can we reposition it? by Abidin, P.E., Adekambi, S., Nchor, J., Koara, I., Carey, E.E.

“…Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) was not an important crop in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Nigeria, West Africa, in the past decades. …”
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