FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Purpose

This project aims to strengthen the resilience of agro-sylvo-pastoral communities in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, once known as “the breadbasket of Burkina Faso.” The region now struggles to play that role because of soil, forest and water resource degradation. In Burkina Faso, against a backdrop that already includes climate, security, and humanitarian shocks, the COVID-19 pandemic is having a negative impact on all activity sectors. The project focuses on greater empowerment through the mastery of practices and measures to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and climate change. The project activities include: (1) developing and broadcasting radio shows, television spots, and microprograms on COVID-19 in local languages; (2) educating and training technical partners on COVID-19’s impact on various types of activities, notably the new constraints on women and youth, who will be trained on measures to prevent and mitigate the illness; (3) boosting households’ livelihoods by restoring 500 ha of land for agro-pastoral production; (4) enhancing 50 ha of rice-growing lowlands in support of women and youth; and (5) creating, rehabilitating, and securing 25 ha of nature conservation areas.