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BURKINA FASO

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Activities carried out:

INERA and UNB

Focus on sustainable soil management and agri-livestock integration.  

Research on:

  • Strategies for integration.

  • Cotton-based crops, cereal-based crops and cotton-cereal cropping systems.

  • Soil management: minimum tillage, biochar, intercropping.

Fondazione ACRA

Focus on field participatory assessment of NUS and water and soil management. ​

Research on:

  • Fonio – assessment and soil management practices.

  • Millet – assessment.

  • Cowpea – assessment.

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NUS identified:

  1. FONIO (Digitaria Exilis)

  2. PEARL MILLET (Cenchrus americanus)

  3. BAMBARA GROUNDNUT (Vigna subterranea)

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UNB and INERA

Sustainable soil management

Sustainable soil management, integrated soil fertility management strategies intercropping. 

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UNB, INERA and ACRA

Land recovery

Focusing on the recovery of abandoned land and the restoration of sustainable production

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