Publications

In West Africa, domestic investors acquire plots of farm land using their connections, powers and resources. Some policy makers view these investments as a shift towards agribusiness and state that these “new actors” will modernise and professionalize farming and smallholders are asked to make space. Who are those new actors, how did they obtain the land, under what conditions, and how are they investing? Why are authorities engaging in these land transactions and what are the consequences for local farming, rural livelihoods and the environment? This paper presents results of a 2010 survey on the acquisition of rural land by agro-investors in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. It explores implications for agricultural “modernisation” and discusses local responses to regulate this phenomenon.

A capability statement concerning our work on Agriculture in Africa which focuses on equity and growth for smallholders.

La présente note thématique est basée sur les expériences de la SNV en matière d’appui aux pasteurs en Afrique, en vue d’améliorer leurs moyens d’existence. Elle se fonde sur une large gamme d’études de cas qui, à travers le continent, mettent en évidence un certain nombre de traits communs aux
pratiques des pasteurs. La collaboration avec les pasteurs nous a appris qu’ils ne sont pas les traditionalistes que l’on décrit souvent. Ils s’adaptent au changement rapide comme tout autre groupe en Afrique. La présente note met en exergue l’éventail de stratégies d’adaptation, d’options de commercialisation et de mécanismes institutionnels qui ont cours à l’heure actuelle au sein de ces communautés. Ces expériences démontrent que le travail de la SNV a permis d’apporter des améliorations  tangibles aux moyens d’existence des éleveurs, tout en augmentant leur contribution au développement écon omique dans certains des milieux les plus difficiles en Afrique aujourd’hui.

La SNV Burkina,Organisation néerlandaise de développement au Burkina Faso, informe les structures d’appui technique aux acteurs étatiques et non étatiques qu’elle est en cours de constitution d’une base de données de ses consultants/tes locaux.

A cet effet, elle invite les structures de renforcement des capacités (agences, cabinets, bureaux, organisations de la société civile, institutions de recherche) régulièrement installées au Burkina Faso et qui seraient intéressées par un éventuel partenariat avec la SNV, à s’inscrire dans son répertoire de consultants au plus tard le 30 avril 2012 à 17h.

Les termes de références et le formulaire d’inscription sont téléchargeables sur la présente page (fichier PDF) et dans les bureaux de la SNV à Ouagadougou et à Bobo-Dioulasso aux adresses ci-après:

SNV Burkina - Direction Nationale

01 BP 625 Ouagadougou 01

Tél. 50 34 71 59 / 50 34 11 57. Email : burkina-faso@snvworld.org

SNV Burkina - Bureau de Bobo-Dioulasso

01 BP 1206 Bobo-Dioulasso.

Tél.: 20 97 11 94/ 20 97 31 92. Email : burkinabobo@snvworld.org

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Merci de votre constante collaboration.

Le Directeur national de la SNV Burkina

Johnson BIEN AIME

French publication on domestic biogas, written by SNV Burkina advisors and published by our partner (IEPF).

1-pager describing SNV Burkina faso biogas programme.

1-pager explaining SNV Burkina Faso Biomass/ solar programme.

1-pager explaining SNV Burkina Faso Pastoralism Programme.

1-pager explaining SNV Burkina Faso shea programme.

1-pager describing SNV Burkina Faso WASH programme.

1_pager explaining SNV Burkina Faso programme on cereals.

This manual is intended to women producers of shea soap so that they can meet quality requirement in order to better sell their products. Edited by SNV Burkina Faso.

The document presents the summaries of the 12 case studies used to illustrate SNV practices which contributed to the writing of the practice brief N° 4 focusing on Gender and Agriculture (see: www.snvworld.org/en/sectors/agriculture/publications/gender-and-agriculture-practice-brief). The summaries provide an insight of the gender issue and what practices SNV implemented to address to this specific constraint. The document also offers you hyperlinks at the end of each summary to enable you read the full intervention.

Water tower “forage Christine” enables dry season access to pastures in its influence area, where cattle come from stretches out into Mali and Niger with distances from 150 to 300km. In this area, pastoral livelihoods are jeopardized by (i) ongoing discussions about the institutional anchorage and vocation of the forage and its influence zone, (ii) organizational shortcomings of local authorities and management committees, (iii) dependency on external support for urgent troubleshooting and (iv) degradation of sylvo pastoral resources in the influence zone, due to non-adapted practices, recurrent droughts, agricultural encroachment, etc.

SNV (capacity building organisation) and CRUS (agro-pastoral organisation) initiated an action-research (2009-2010) to (i) secure the pastoral vocation of the resource base while improving the governance of the forage and (ii) conceive and test a multi sectorial[1], multi stakeholder and cross-border (inter-municipal, multi-country) intervention approach. Positive impact  is expected at an estimated outreach of 3 000 pastoral households (20 000 men and women).

Water tower “forage Christine” enables dry season access to pastures in its influence area, where cattle come from stretches out into Mali and Niger with distances from 150 to 300km. In this area, pastoral livelihoods are jeopardized by (i) ongoing discussions about the institutional anchorage and vocation of the forage and its influence zone, (ii) organizational shortcomings of local authorities and management committees, (iii) dependency on external support for urgent troubleshooting and (iv) degradation of sylvo pastoral resources in the influence zone, due to non-adapted practices, recurrent droughts, agricultural encroachment, etc.

SNV (capacity building organisation) and CRUS (agro-pastoral organisation) initiated an action-research (2009-2010) to (i) secure the pastoral vocation of the resource base while improving the governance of the forage and (ii) conceive and test a multi sectorial[1], multi stakeholder and cross-border (inter-municipal, multi-country) intervention approach. Positive impact  is expected at an estimated outreach of 3 000 pastoral households (20 000 men and women).