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Burkina Faso
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Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms
The SITAM project looked at how to support progress towards sustainable intensification of agriculture in three African countries. This case study looks at how farming households in eastern Burkina Faso are balancing different priorities as they try to increase their productivity
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EbA Evidence and Policy: Burkina Faso
IIED and IUCN are collating and using evidence from the EPIC Project piloted in Northern Burkina Faso to explore the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and inform and influence national adaptation planning processes.
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Building climate negotiation skills for African officials
Officials from African countries will have the opportunity to increase their climate negotiation skills at two training workshops in Dakar this June.
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ECOWAS encourages states to learn from returns on investment of large dams in West Africa
Government representatives and economists from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are meeting in Burkina Faso to review the economic impacts of large dams
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Hama Arba Diallo: the universal man
Youba Sokona pays tribute to his fellow Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group member Hama Arba Diallo, who passed away in late September
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Large scale irrigated rice farming: the state must take farmers' perspectives into account
New report by the Global Water Initiative stresses importance of considering views of farmers in agricultural policies
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Ensuring water is equitably allocated and governed
We can only survive without drinking water for a few days – it’s crucial for our survival. Water is also crucial for supporting people’s ways of life, from raising livestock, to managing fisheries and irrigating crops. In many parts of semi-arid West Africa water is in short supply and the pressures on existing water resources are set to increase. IIED aims to help bring about fairer and more sustainable water governance that ensures poor and vulnerable communities don’t miss out
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Five ways to bring benefits from large dams to local communities
A study into how large dams in West Africa have affected local people has identified ways to share the benefits of future dams more equitably and create development opportunities for communities.
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Supporting smallholders: markets, rights, or sovereignty?
But, according to one speaker at the event, smallholders aren’t helped by either.