JAFOWA-FENOP - Agricultural practices favorable to an agroecological transition and intensive employment in Burkina Faso

Start
January 2020
End
December 2021
Project cost
100 000 €
Role in the project
Partenaire
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Countries

Burkina Faso

Fields

Agriculture Organic Agriculture Agroecology Market

Partners

FENOP - Fédération Nationale des Organisations Paysannes · Bioprotect · Munyu Association

Main goals

The project aims to promote environmentally friendly farming practices among 200 market gardeners who are members of OP Munyu and to create 25 jobs for young people in the Cascades regions. The aim will be to support the Munyu group in better responding to an increasingly demanding local demand for healthy and nutritious market garden products from resilient agriculture, thus resulting in better journals for women and job creation for young people

Specific objectives

SO1. Disseminate agroecological practices within the market gardening FOs members of Munyu
SO2. Encourage the sustainable implementation of agroecological practices within Munyu by improving the structuring and governance of member market gardening FOs
SO3. Stimulate demand and accessibility of Bio SPG certified products from member cooperatives in Munyu

Beneficiaries

  • 200 women members of the Munyu cooperative certified organic-SPG of Banfora
  • Consumers in the Cascades and Hauts Bassins regions

Results

R1. The target vegetable cooperatives implement agroecological practices in their vegetable farms and consequently offer better quality Bio-SPG certified products on the local Cascades and Hauts-Bassins markets
R2. The market gardening and rice growing FOs members of Munyu structured into agroecological vegetable production cooperatives are functional
R3. The sales volume of BIO-SPG certified products has increased; cooperatives improve their turnover and 25 jobs created

Activities

A1. Production support

  • Establishment of a rural unit for the production of organic inputs
  • Technical support for ecological market gardening on 10 sites and monitoring
  • Technical supervision of the Intensive Rice Farming System on 10 sites and monitoring
  • Implementation of 4 Farmer Field Schools (CEP)
  • Design of didactic, awareness and popularization tools
    A2. Support for the structuring of POs members of the Munyu association
  • Design of training tools on the OHADA law and support for structuring
  • Support for project management (planning, monitoring of implementation and administrative and financial management)
    A3. Support for commercial development and Bio-SPG certification of Munyu products
  • Training on crop planning and the evolution of the commercial offer
  • Certification of BIO-SPG products
  • Establishment of 3 points of sale and promotion of SPG organic products
    A4. Development of a baseline situation

Related people

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Task officer / Agriculture & Market / Burkina-Faso

Moussa Bingboure

Graduated with a Master 2 in Project Management at Senghor University of Alexandria, and Master 1 in Agricultural and Environmental Economics at Norbert Zongo University, he brings his expertise in the development of agricultural value chains and agro-food, strengthening the technical and organizational capacities of stakeholders in the sectors and also in the analysis of agricultural markets. He also has good experience in the development and coordination of agricultural development and natural resource preservation projects