Burkina Faso

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Projects with partners - Burkina Faso (10)

• (CP) Planning and evaluating ensembles of small, multi-purpose reservoirs for the improvement of smallholder livelihooods and food security: tools and procedures

  Major Research Domain: small multi-purpose reservoir ensemble planning Goal: To maintain water related ecosystem services, the long-term sustainability of local water supplies, and adequate downstream flows. To improve food security at the houshold level and incease sustainable livelihoods.

• African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE)

  The African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE) is a network of 127 educational institutions in Africa whose objective is to strengthen the teaching of multi-disciplinary approaches to land management. The ANAFE Coordination Unit is hosted at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) headquarters in Nairobi. This provides a vantage for network management, linkages with the research and development activities of ICRAF and its partners, and convenient communication facilities.

• Cumulative Effects of Mineral Manure and Chemical Pesticides on Soils and Water in Irrigated Plains in Burkina Faso

  Cumulative Effects of Mineral Manure and Chemical Pesticides on Soils and Water in Irrigated Plains in Burkina Faso

• Factors influencing the development trajectories of lowlands in West Africa

  To contribute to the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals in Africa, with a particular focus in poverty alleviation and food security

• Improving the management of trypanocide resistance in the cotton zone of West Africa: a coordinated regional study

  Major Research Domain: Trypanosomosis, trypanocide resistance, agro-pastoral production systems Priorities: 3, 4 Goal: Improve the sustainability of smallholder agro-pastoral production systems in West Africa Purpose: Ensure the efficacy of trypanocides as a component of integrated control of trypanosomosis in the cotton zone of West Africa

• INCO - Claim: Changes in Land Access, Institutions and Market S in West Africa

  The general objective of the research program is to make a significant contribution to more equitable and appropriate policies and institutions for managing and providing more secure access to land and other natural resources in four countries of West Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali, Benin, Côte-d'Ivoire). Such policies lie at the heart of strategies to promote more sustainable development and tackle poverty in Africa. The research programme also seeks to strengthen research capacity and methods for engagement in policy debate in West Africa, while improving understanding of the issues internationally.

• Mobilizing regional diversity for creating new potentials for pearl millet and sorghum farmers in West and Central Africa

  To enhance rural livelihoods and household food security in pearl millet-and sorghumgrowing areas of WCA through cultivation of adapted, higher-yielding and stable cultivars of these staple cerealsTo assist NARS in the target countries to more effectively utilize genetic diversity of locally adapted, farmer-preferred photoperiod-sensitive, pearl millet and sorghum germplasm in their breeding programs

• Preventing and containing trypanocide resistance in the cotton zone of West Africa (Phase II)

  Goal: To protect and improve the sustainable livelihoods of resource-poor livestock keepers in agro-pastoral production systems Purpose: To enhance the current and future efficacy of trypanocides as an effective component of improved integrated trypanosomosis control strategies

• Soutien à l'enseignement et à la recherche dans le domaine de la gestion des ressources en eau et des aménagements hydro-agricoles

  The main objectives of the project are: 1. Support and improve commitment of the Group EIER-ETSHER in the field of water management and agricultural hydraulics,: 2. Contribute to the improvement to the education provided in the field of water management and agricultural hydraulics 3. Favor the emergence in the Group EIER-ETSHER of high level research activities focussed on development problems of Africa. 4. Accompanying the ongoing reform of the Group EIER-ETSHER: passage to the Bachelor-Master-Doctorate system and association with the African Institute of Science and Technology

• Systematische Studie zur Grundwasserqualität der Region Kadiogo (Burkina Faso) unter Einsatz geophysikalischer Methoden

  About 3,8 Millions of inhabitants are living in the region of Kadiogo in the centre of Burkina Faso. Decreasing annual rainfall and the increasing need of drinking water and water for agriculture are the reasons for the selection of this area. The main purpose of this project is to study groundwater quality in order to increase drinking water quality in rural and semi-urban communities under long-term aspects. Some expected results are a map of fracture systems and water quality distribution, rules and recommendations for an optimized long term water production regime and a general model for water exploration, production and protection in sahelian zones.