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West Africa  60 Results (Clear Filters)

  • West Africa Community of Practice Annual Meeting, Bamako, Mali, March 4-8, 2024

    The Ministries of Agriculture of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger came together with more than 80 participants from farmers organizations, research centers, NGOs, and agroecology alliances for the 2024 CRFS West Africa Community of Practice (CoP) annual meeting. Master’s and PhD students working in agroecology also participated thanks to travel grants offered to them. The […]

    Date: 3/4/2024

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    West Africa

  • Mets et Produits Traditionnels du Centre Nord—Burkino Faso

    Introduction Ce livret fait la promotion des mets traditionnels de la région du Centre Nord. Les procédés de préparation et les modes de consommation des principaux produits et mets traditionnellement consommés dans la région du Centre Nord ont été présentés. Les produits et mets ont été répertoriés dans les villages des communes de Pissila, Boussouma […]

    Date: 12/22/2023

    Resource Type: Instructional material

    West Africa

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  • Challenges and Obstacles to Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 in the West African Sub-Region

    Dr. Fatoumata Ba / Hama (IRSAT/CNRST), nutritionist and principal investigator of the Child Nutrition Project, shared her thoughts during CCRP’s West Africa Community of Practice (CoP) annual meeting on the challenges and obstacles to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 2 in West Africa. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso August 11, 2022 In 2015, all United Nations […]

    Date: 8/12/2022

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    West Africa

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  • West African CoP 2021 AET Workshop

    Agroecological transition processes in West Africa CoP: Visions inspired by core values and agroecological principles. In April 2021, the Agroecology Support Team (AES) conducted a workshop on the theme of agroecological transitions (AET) through a lens of agroecological principles and personal values.The goal was to strengthen projects’ confidence in their own knowledge and to ease […]

    Source: Gabriela Bucini

    Date: 4/15/2022

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    West Africa

  • Perspectives on Agroecological Transitions

    Two Indonesian farmers in conversation at international agroecology school in Italy. Photo credit: Colin Anderson This series explores praxis in agroecology transitions. Praxis is a critical concept in participatory research and action and can be understood as the dialectical interaction of theory/reflection and practice/action that opens the possibility for contributing to social transformation. Resource Download: […]

    Date: 4/1/2022

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    Andes, East & Southern Africa, West Africa

  • Perspectivas sobre las Transiciones Agroecologicas

    Two Indonesian farmers in conversation at international agroecology school in Italy. Photo credit: Colin Anderson Esta serie explora la praxis en las transiciones agroecológicas. La praxis es un concepto crítico en la investigación y acción participativa y puede entenderse como la interacción dialéctica de teoría/reflexión y práctica/acción que abre la posibilidad de contribuir a la […]

    Date: 4/1/2022

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    Andes, East & Southern Africa, West Africa

  • Perspectives sur les Transitions Agroécologiques

    Two Indonesian farmers in conversation at international agroecology school in Italy. Photo credit: Colin Anderson Cette série explore la praxis dans les transitions agroécologiques. La praxis est un concept important dans la recherche et l’action participatives. Elle peut être vue comme l’interaction dialectique entre la théorie/réflexion et la pratique/action qui ouvre la voie à la […]

    Date: 4/1/2022

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    Andes, East & Southern Africa, West Africa

  • Modeling and Mapping Village Futures

    A presentation made to the FRN working group on modelling village futures using a land use game with farmers in Mali. Read about how a board game can be used to create scenarios and project their impacts into the future.

    Source: Mary Ollenburger

    Date: 10/27/2020

    Resource Type: Project summary

    West Africa

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  • Covid-19 Farm Safety Measures Posters

    Farmer field schools , a platform within the FAO, is helping to stop the spread of Covid-19 in international farming communities by “spreading accurate health information, building networks of solidarity focusing on vulnerable people, or organizing short value chains to ensure farmers’ products reach markets.” The global FFS platform team recently released these posters in […]

    Source: FAO

    Date: 6/5/2020

    Resource Type: Poster

    Andes, East & Southern Africa, West Africa

  • Le leadership comme levier pour l’agroécologie

    En 2015, la Fondation McKnight a accordé des fonds au Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) pour offrir un développement du leadership aux agriculteurs, aux chercheurs locaux, aux scientifiques, aux praticiens du développement et à d’autres parties prenantes clés du Programme de recherche collaborative sur les cultures, communauté de pratique en Afrique de l’Ouest.  La mission […]

    Source: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

    Date: 6/3/2020

    Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

    West Africa

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  • New Multipurpose Sorghum Variety Captures Attention in Burkina Faso

    A new variety of sorghum that delivers high yields of grain and stover is gaining popularity in Burkina Faso, a country where livestock feed remains a challenge. The ICRISAT-developed variety, Soubatimi, can be grown in the rainy and post-rainy seasons, benefiting farmers and livestock owners alike. Read more about this successful contribution to the Networking […]

    Source: ICRISAT

    Date: 5/29/2020

    Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

    West Africa

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  • Leadership is Promoted as a Lever for Agroecology

    In 2015, the McKnight Foundation granted funding to the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) to provide leadership development to farmers, local researchers, scientists, development practitioners, and other key stakeholders of the WAf CoP.  The four-year leadership initiative’s mission was to enhance their effectiveness as leaders as well as improve their cross-sectoral collaboration, communication, and decision-making. […]

    Source: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

    Date: 5/27/2020

    Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

    West Africa

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  • West Africa Community of Practice 2020 Annual Meeting

    The 2020 Annual meeting of the CCRP’s West Africa Community of Practice (WAf CoP) was held  February 24 -28 in Montpellier, France. Its host was the agroecology-centered Agropolis Foundation , whose campus offered participants the chance to mingle with some of the Montpellier science community’s 2,900 researchers and 900 doctoral students as well as researchers […]

    Source: Batamaka Some

    Date: 5/1/2020

    Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

    West Africa

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  • Pathways to AEI – Decision Support Tool

    The lack of good quality pastures, during the critical drought period (i e March up to June) in southern Mali, leads to feed shortages and weakening of draught animals.

    Source: Arouna Dissa , Ousmane Sanogo, Ken Giller, Katrien Descheemaeker

    Date: 4/2/2020

    Resource Type: Case study

    West Africa

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  • Farmers Sharing Agroecological Knowledge in Their Own Languages: West African

    Access Agriculture is an international, non-governmental organization that hosts an online platform for sharing farmer-to-farmer videos. These well-crafted videos are based on participatory research oriented towards farmers’ priorities, and feature men and women farmers sharing their expertise and innovations in their own languages. CCRP has in the past engaged with Access Agriculture in supporting filmmaking […]

    Source: Access Agriculture

    Date: 4/1/2020

    Resource Type: Video

    West Africa

  • Advancing together · Overview of the CCRP Portfolio in West Africa as of 2020

    This booklet gives an overview of the current project portfolio of the Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) in West Africa, with QR codes indicating the respective links to the program’s website (www.ccrp.org), where more information and resources can be found both for the CCRP and for individual projects. Ce livret Le présent livret donne un […]

    Source: Bettina Haussmann, Batamaka Some & Axel Schuch

    Date: 2/11/2020

    Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

    West Africa

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  • Impressions from the Fonio Intensification Project

    Fonio (Digitaria exilis) is a traditional cereal in West Africa, grown by women and men smallholder farmers, either as food crop to reduce impacts of the hungry period, to diversify their own diets, or to sell as cash crop. In addition to its role in food security in many areas of Mali, Burkina Faso, and […]

    Source: Sanogo Moussa Daouda

    Date: 1/30/2020

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    West Africa

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  • Improving the Nutritional Status of Children in Rural Burkina Faso

    This video entitled ” Improving the nutritional status of children by increasing the consumption of “Cereal + legume” composite flour-based products in rural Burkina Faso”, summarizes major activities of the “Child nutrition” project, and includes demonstrations of the preparation of different types of nutritious food.

    Source: Dr. Hama Fatoumata

    Date: 1/30/2020

    Resource Type: Video

    West Africa

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  • FaReNe Project 2015 – 2019

    Farmers in Burkina Faso and Mali face severe challenges, including the fragility and poverty of their soils, losses due to pests and diseases, and adversities related to climate change. The current situation is likely to worsen due to rapid population growth, extensive agriculture and livestock production, undervaluing of local knowledge and low use of improved […]

    Source: CCRP

    Date: 12/3/2019

    Resource Type: Mini case study

    West Africa

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