Story of change

BURKINA FASO: A story of change on small family business

“Quality is what we need – and the quality of our new relationships helps us with the quality of our cereals” For many years, rural women have been creating their own agri-food processing companies, that promote local agriculture by bringing to the market original foods in products that are accessible to urban populations. The aim

BURKINA FASO – Story of change

Organic certification takes root, thanks to everyone working together “Thanks to the money I earn from producing organic vegetables, this helps with the costs of schooling my children. I also feed my family with healthy food, and don’t buy any vegetables at the market anymore” says Clarisse Ilboudo, a farmer in the Koubri women’s group,

BURKINA FASO Story of change

“It was a marketplace of innovative ideas, with a cocktail of partners” The CDAIS ‘marketplace’ to promote agricultural innovations in Burkina Faso took place on July 6th 2017 in Ouagadougou. It was a rich event involving more than 80 people who are working directly with, or interested in working with, different partnerships. The marketplace allowed

Contributors to the page

Prosper Kola, lead national innovation facilitator, Burkina Faso

kola.nomande@gmail.com, +226 76696042

 

 

 

 

Viviane Radier, CDAIS assistant coordinator, Montpellier, France

viviane.radier@icra-edu.org