Improving the living conditions of local communities through Participatory Innovation Development

The Eastern and Northern regions of Burkina Faso are characterized by a degradation of natural resources, not without inconsiderable socio-economic consequences for the populations. In an effort to cope with these difficult environmental conditions, the producers innovate a lot of strategies to restore the soil fertility and secure a sufficient production to cover their needs, […]

In the area of intervention of the project Strengthening Farmer-led Research Networks for Agroecological Intensification in Burkina Faso (FaReNe), farmers’ practices improvement methods are very various and assistance of producers’ development partners shows different characteristics, adapted to the context. Processes of joint experimentations of agricultural technologies and management of environmental resources have been set up […]

The Local Innovation Support Fund (LISF) led in Burkina Faso, took its example from pilot projects led by PROLINNOVA (an international program of partnership that promotes local innovation and Participatory Innovation Development – PID). It is an alternative mechanism of financing that permits innovative farmers to have access to resources allowing them to pursue their […]

Innovative farmers have developed local solutions aimed at overcoming the constraints of poverty and land degradation. A support process based on the Local Innovation Support Fund (LISF) was established to facilitate low-income farmers’ access to financing as well as to promote and improve their local innovation. It is an initiative from the project aimed at […]

Low crop yields resulting from the degradation of agricultural land led producers to join forces in order to better cope with food insecurity. The two informal networks described below are made up of producers at the regional level in the Ségou and Mopti regions. The specific character of these groups lies in the fact that […]