CAADP Compact: Burkina Faso signed the CAADP Compact on 22July 2010.
National Agriculture Investment Plan: Technical experts were deployed to Burkina Faso from 11 - 17 January 2012 to undertake independent technical reviews of its National Agricultural Investment Plan (NAIP). Burkina Faso also received support on undertaking an agriculture public expenditure study.
Capacity building: Demand-driven, modular, short-term pilot measures for agricultural training (along selected value chains) were offered by public and private agricultural training institutions for 400 young ‘agripreneurs’ of which 120 were women. Capacities were also enhanced in agricultural skills and entrepreneurial and commercial knowledge for trainers, youth and women in selected agricultural training centres in Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo (over 3 000, with women constituting about 30 per cent).
Business: An Internal Technical Review (January 2012) and Business Meeting (March 2012) were conducted.
Funding: Burkina Faso received funding from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP), to a tune of USD 37.1 million – planned for increasing agricultural production and food security in cereal, horticulture, livestock and fish value chains in three food deficit areas (Centre-East, Centre-South and Sahel).
Results:
- Burkina Faso’s National Programme for the Rural Sector (PNSR), known as the NAIP in other countries, has been in operation since 2010 and is the framework for the planning of all programmes in the rural sector. From 2011 to 2015, the main projects to receive funding were water control, subsidies to farmers for inputs and equipment, the promotion of non-timber forest products, making better use of agricultural research, promoting food security, and support for access to markets.
- There was growth in the production of cereals and cash crops between 2002 and 2013.
- Farmers have been helped to get seeds and fertilizer, as well as to increase mechanisation.
- Burkina Faso has also seen improvements in the sustainable development of agricultural water, including the development of nearly 25,000 ha of lowland, irrigation projects and grassroots training on irrigation techniques.
- There has also been improved productivity, competitiveness and animal vaccinations in the livestock sector. One major step was the building of a factory that can produce 100,000 tonnes of cattle feed per year.
- In the North Central region, farmers have adopted the zaï technique. In this farming technique, pits are dug in the soil to retain water and collect compost, which will consequently restore degraded drylands and increase soil fertility. Compost or fertilizer is placed in the pits before planting.
- Access to drinkable water in rural areas has also increased from 63 per cent in 2012 to 63,5 per cent in 2013, although there remains a gap within urban areas, where access to drinking water is 86,2 per cent.
- Land security has also improved through the national policy on land tenure in rural areas that was adopted 2007.
- Field schools in the country also help farmers with production problems, facilitate the sharing of knowledge and create opportunities within the agricultural sector.
