Analysis of Farmers’ Strategies in the Central and North-West Regions of Burkina Faso: Approach and Some Results

Kaboré, Pato Daniel; Kabore, Tambi Samuel; Maatman, A.; Ouédraogo, Amadé; Ruijs, Arjan; Sawadogo, H.; Schweigman, C.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-6105-7_5

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“…Included in this category are production assets including size of arable land, number of livestock owned; transportation assets, captured by ownership of transport equipment such as cart. The total land area may have indirect positive impacts on investment in trees by enabling farmers to generate production surpluses, to overcome credit constraints, where land can be used as collateral for credit (Kabore et al 1997), and allow them to adopt improved agroforestry technologies that increase productivity of tree products. In other words, the more arable land a household has, the higher the level of output and thus the higher the propensity to practice FMNR.…”

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Effects of local institutions on the adoption of agroforestry innovations: evidence of farmer managed natural regeneration and its implications for rural livelihoods in the Sahel

Binam¹,

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Djalal³

et al. 2017

Agric Econ

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The present study aims at (1) assessing how the existing local formal and informal institutions affect farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR) practices and, (2) evaluating the benefits of such practices on livelihoods. The propensity score with continuous treatments was used to assess the effects of a set of covariates on FMNR as well as the impacts of that practice on income, cereal production and caloric intake using data collected from 1,080 rural households in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. This study demonstrated that regeneration of trees on farms, whereby farmers play an active role in the types of trees and their densities, is important as a practice and safety-net by providing cash income, caloric intake and diet, and crops supplements throughout dryland areas of West Africa. Overall, FMNR cannot be excluded as a recommendation in any geographical region. In addition, the study concludes that the effects of institutions in fostering FMNR practices in the Sahel are mixed. In areas with well-structured formal and informal institutions, populations seem to have adopted a better collaboration attitude with the local government by developing plans for a good management and protection of natural resource including FMNR practices. However, in areas where these commissions are being assimilated to governmental institutions, the willingness to raise incentives towards a better management of natural resources is less perceived. While recognizing the benefits of trees and tree products on caloric intake and diet, there is a need to explore in much more details, the FMNR-food nexus in future researches by going beyond what was covered from this study.

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Section: Empirical Modelmentioning

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Effects of local institutions on the adoption of agroforestry innovations: evidence of farmer managed natural regeneration and its implications for rural livelihoods in the Sahel

Binam¹,

Place

Djalal³

et al. 2017

Agric Econ

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“…univitattus, considered the main SINV vector in most African countries and usually found in rural environments [7,16], Cx. quinquefasciatus is abundant in both urban and rural areas in Burkina Faso [31]. Moreover, this mosquito, although mainly ornithophilic, readily feeds on humans [54].…”

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“…Thus, the paucity of data on SINV hampers to fully evaluate its distribution in Africa and routes of spread. Methods Collection sites and mosquito sampling Collection sites have been previously described [31]. Mosquitoes were collected in two regions of Burkina Faso, the Hauts-Bassins and South-West regions (Figure 1).…”

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A metagenomics-based survey of the virus diversity in mosquito vectors allows the first detection of Sindbis virus in Burkina Faso

Kaboré,

Exbrayat,

Charriat

et al. 2024

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Mosquito-borne viruses represent a threat to human health worldwide. This taxonomically-diverse group includes numerous viruses that recurrently spread into new regions. Thus, periodic surveillance of the arbovirus diversity in a given region can help optimizing the diagnosis of arboviral infections. Nevertheless, such screenings are rarely carried out, especially in low-income countries. Consequently, case investigation is often limited to a fraction of the arbovirus diversity. This situation probably results in undiagnosed cases. Here, we have explored the diversity of mosquito-borne viruses in two regions of Burkina Faso. To this end, we have screened mosquitoes collected along three years in six urban and rural areas using untargeted metagenomics. The analysis focused on two mosquito species, Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus, considered among the main vectors of arboviruses worldwide. The screening detected Sindbis virus (SINV, Togaviridae) for the first time in Burkina Faso. This zoonotic arbovirus has spread from Africa into Europe. SINV causes periodic outbreaks in Europe but its distribution and epidemiology in Africa remains largely unstudied. SINV was detected in one of the six areas of the study, and at a single year. Detection was validated with isolation in cell culture. SINV was only detected in Cx. quinquefasciatus, thus extending the list of potential vectors of SINV in nature. SINV infection rate in mosquitoes was similar to those observed in European regions that experience SINV outbreaks. A phylogenetic analysis placed the nearly-full genome within a cluster of Central African strains of lineage I. This cluster is supposedly at the origin of the SINV strains introduced into Europe. Thus, West Africa should also be considered as a potential source of the European SINV strains. Our results call for studies on the prevalence of SINV infections in the region to estimate disease burden and the interest of SINV diagnostic in case investigation.

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“…In the 1980s and 1990s in Burkina Faso, in particular on the Central Plateau, on a large scale local measures were applied to improve water infiltration and to stop erosion, for instance by the construction of stone bunds. A widely applied local method to improve soil fertility is the technique of Zaı, where planting pits are dug and filled with organic matter, see e.g Kabore´et al (1994Kabore´et al ( , 1997,Maatman et al (1998),Reij and Thiombiano (2003)…”

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Food security problems in sub‐Saharan Africa: Operations Research as a tool of analysis

Schweigman¹

2008

Int Trans Operational Res

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For many years, the author has been involved in teaching and research in the use of Operations Research as a tool of analysis to study food security problems in sub‐Saharan Africa, in particular, grass root problems of poor farmers. The paper presents an introduction to the way Operations Research methods have been applied in case studies and research projects, and discusses in retrospect the author's views on the strengths and limitations of the application of Operations Research. The paper has in particular been written for people who are not familiar with applications of Operations Research in agriculture, and are interested to learn about its potential usefulness in practice. The retrospective part is largely based on food security studies in e.g. Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Bénin, Togo and Eritrea and on participation in several interdisciplinary research programmes in Africa.

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Analysis of Farmers’ Strategies in the Central and North-West Regions of Burkina Faso: Approach and Some Results

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Effects of local institutions on the adoption of agroforestry innovations: evidence of farmer managed natural regeneration and its implications for rural livelihoods in the Sahel

Effects of local institutions on the adoption of agroforestry innovations: evidence of farmer managed natural regeneration and its implications for rural livelihoods in the Sahel

A metagenomics-based survey of the virus diversity in mosquito vectors allows the first detection of Sindbis virus in Burkina Faso

Food security problems in sub‐Saharan Africa: Operations Research as a tool of analysis

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