Contexte et Justification
La maitrise et la valorisation de ses ressources en eau constituent un e?le?ment primordial dans les efforts du Burkina Faso a? re?aliser les objectifs du mille?naire, en ge?ne?ral, et la se?curite? alimentaire et la re?duction de la pauvrete?, en particulier.…
This study compares the impacts of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) on crop production with use of either mineral fertilizer or organic manure alone. We also investigate the conditions under which .ISFM technology has greater beneficial effects on yields and the factors constraining…
The project will identify socially acceptable land and water governance options and identify their livelihoods, health and environmental impacts, including spatial and temporal trade-offs at the watershed level.
The V3 project will develop integrated management options of Small Reservoirs (SR) with the objectives of perpetuating infrastructures, protecting/impro- ving water quality for various uses, reaching/en- hancing water productivity potentials in ensuring an equitable allocation of water resources…
Even though considerable parts of the global tropical forests are located in Africa, reliable data on African forest resources is limited. While this is widely recognized for tropical moist forests, it also holds for tropical dry forests. To partially fill the gap a forest inventory was carried…
In-depth statistical analysis of forest transition between land-cover types over time can reveal the dominant signals of landscape transformation, which are needed in order to develop appropriate land management strategies. We applied a recently developed methodology to analyse the transition…
The report considers the critical issues providing the context for discussing land issues affecting West Africa as a region. These include the political, social and economic context, colonial legacy and legal plural systems, the operations of regional economic communities and other regional…