Burkina Faso

  1. Mamadou Sangaré
  2. Souleymane Ganaba
  3. Leopold SOME
  4. Forget doctors and lawyers, farming is where the money’s at, says Nigerian entrepreneur
    “Young Nigerians do not want to dirty their hands anymore, and it just shocks me.”   This is according to Cynthia Mosunmola Umoru, a Nigerian woman who has spent the last 10 years building her entrepreneurial career within agriculture.   She started Honeysuckles PTL…
  5. UN Women Changing Lives series
    On Rural Women’s Day, the Gender Agriculture Partnership (GAP) and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) celebrate the talents of women farmers around the world. First released in 2012, “Changing Lives in Africa”, tells inspiring stories of women and the communities whose lives have…
  6. Capacity Development: It is people and local organizations that matter!
    Capacity Development led by CGIAR can help agriculturalists in developing countries discover and develop their own expertise and confidence. But it is through capacity development interventions in, and by, whole communities and (local) organizations in these countries that most potently…
  7. Agriculture Fast Track Fund Now Accepting Grant Applications from African Agri-Business Operators
    The call for proposals for grants from the Agriculture Fast Track Fund (AFT) is open from now until 31 December 2013.   The Agriculture Fast Track Fund, a new multi-donor trust fund, managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), designed to…
  8. BRACED call for proposals from NGO-led consortia to build resilience to climate extremes is open
    DFID’s Ministers have approved the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters Programme (BRACED) which is expected to benefit up to 5 million people, especially women and children, by building their resilience to climate extremes (mostly droughts and floods). This…
  9. GFRAS Steering Committee meeting
    Harry Palmier represented GFAR in the Steering Committee meeting of GFRAS in Washington (15-16 April 2013).   The Steering Committee discussed a number of items including the organization of the External Mid Term Review of GFRAS to be carried out between June and September 2013 by a…
  10. Institut du Développement Rural
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