Public policies for rural poverty alleviation: The case of agricultural households in the Plateau Central area of Burkina Faso

Sanfo, Safiétou; Gérard, Françoise

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2012.02.006

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“…Despite the dramatically increase in the amount of synthetic nitrogen (N) applied to crops in the last 40 years from 12 Tg/year to current 104 Tg/year [6] there has been a significant decrease in yield with considerable persistence of vicious circle of poverty to majority farmers [7] [8].…”

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Isolation and Characterization of Nitrogen Fixing Rhizobia from Cultivated and Uncultivated Soils of Northern Tanzania

Simon¹,

Mtei²,

Gessesse³

et al. 2014

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Soil bacteria 1 called rhizobia are gram-negative capable to colonize the soil immediately surrounding roots under the influence of the plant "rhizosphere" and reduce atmospheric nitrogen into the form available to plants through nitrogen fixation process. Nitrogen is the most limiting and supplied nutrient to most plants, and the determinant of plant growth. Legumes differ with most plants because they have access to nitrogen from both mineral and symbiotic sources. Small-scale farmers who are the major legume producers in Africa rarely apply fertilizers during legume production. Hence, the crop is largely dependent on fixed nitrogen from native nitrogen fixers. Isolation of rhizobia for legume production has been given a little attention in Africa due to inadequate research or negligence of researchers and unawareness of its potential in legume production as well as lack of an intention from skilled personnel to popularize the technology. Evaluation of effectiveness of isolated rhizobia is essential for inoculants preparation, host specificity recommendation and symbiotic effectiveness. The isolation, determination of their population in the soil and assessing factors affecting their population and testing the effectiveness of native nitrogen fixers with respect to right trap host crop are given a special attention in this review.

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Isolation and Characterization of Nitrogen Fixing Rhizobia from Cultivated and Uncultivated Soils of Northern Tanzania

Simon¹,

Mtei²,

Gessesse³

et al. 2014

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“…They significantly impair agricultural activities and production, contributing to the degradation of Burkina farmers' living conditions [9,13,43]. Such impacts have already been highlighted by several scientists over the last two decades [3,9,27,44].…”

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“…In Burkina Faso (BF), 86% of the population depend on agriculture. Droughts and floods severely impact on agricultural water (AgWater) and food security [11][12][13][14][15][16]. Therefore, diverse options are implemented to address water resources vulnerability to the changing climate in order to secure livelihoods.…”

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Using a New Approach to Design Innovative Tools for Monitoring and Evaluating Water Policy of Burkina Faso in Response to Climate Risks

Gahi

Dongo

Badolo³

2015

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Climate change impacts on water resources have jeopardized human security in the Sahel countries for many decades, especially in achieving food security. Many strategies and policies have been made to address such impacts. However, there are still difficulties to measure progress and the effectiveness of these policies and strategies with regard to climate risks. The lack of practical and consensual monitoring tool is one of the factors that can explain gaps in policies and initiatives to overcome these impacts. To move towards filling this gap, using ClimProspect model and a participatory approach, and based on in-depth vulnerability analysis, this paper makes available some innovative integrated and coherent resilience indicators and a new index for Burkina Faso's water resources. Taking into account both climate and disaster risks, the indicators and index developed are related to warning, responses, recovery and long term resilience. The indicators-based index applied to three sites shows that agriculture water is less resilient to a changing climate with a score varying from 22.66% to 24%. These tools can help in formulating, implementation and reviewing water policy to secure water resources under the stress of climate change. The approach and findings bring together, on one hand, social and ecological resilience to climate risks, and sciences and policy on the other.

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“…Soil, crop, weather, and management components have been added in DSSAT to make the parameterization of the model easier (Jones et al, 2003). Crop production is dependent upon a multitude of variables, which include uncertain climate and socioeconomic factors (Ahmed and Hassan, 2011;Sanfo and Gerard, 2012). Lack of information in the models mostly gives limited results.…”

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Modeling for Agricultural Sustainability

Ahmed

Asif

Hirani

et al. 2013

Agricultural Sustainability

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Public policies for rural poverty alleviation: The case of agricultural households in the Plateau Central area of Burkina Faso

Cited by 25 publications

References 13 publications

Isolation and Characterization of Nitrogen Fixing Rhizobia from Cultivated and Uncultivated Soils of Northern Tanzania

Isolation and Characterization of Nitrogen Fixing Rhizobia from Cultivated and Uncultivated Soils of Northern Tanzania

Using a New Approach to Design Innovative Tools for Monitoring and Evaluating Water Policy of Burkina Faso in Response to Climate Risks

Modeling for Agricultural Sustainability

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