Burkina Faso
Searching for pathways towards equitable and sustainable reservoir management
Bioversity International and partners work closely with local communities in Burkina Faso to tackle the dry season water constraints by supporting...
A threat-mapping approach to guide conservation of food tree species in Burkina Faso
In a recent article on PLOS ONE, Bioversity International researchers and partners have analyzed 16 food tree species in Burkina Faso and 6 key...
Restoring lands and livelihoods in Burkina Faso: The business of one association
Mr Alain Traoré, Director of tiipaalga, shares insights from his long-term efforts in fostering farmer-led restoration initiatives in Burkina Faso as...
Small is beautiful: Restoring degraded lands, one parcel at a time
Bioversity International partner, Mr Harouna Kaboré, farmer from Burkina Faso, talks about his experience restoring three hectares of his household’s...
Gendered exclusions and cooperation within the shea value chain
In their recently published article, Marlène Elias and Seema Arora-Jonsson describe the shea value chain. The authors highlight that although there is...
The role of gender in landscape restoration – a case study from Burkina Faso
In a blog for IUCN, Gender Specialist Marlène Elias talks about how men and women relate to trees differently and how this matters in landscape...
Supporting international cooperation in access and benefit sharing of germplasm for climate change adaptation
Climate change is already forcing farmers around the world to find substitutes for currently grown crop varieties that cannot tolerate changing...
Farmer-selected local varieties certified in Mali
Celebrate with us the recent seed certification of eight local crop varieties produced by farmers in Mali, made possible by the work of Bioversity...
Diary of a Shea tree
This year for International Women's Day, Bioversity has collected stories that inspire progress. Here is a story about gender narrated by a Shea tree....
The winner of the Abdou-Salam Ouédraogo Fellowship announced
The fellowship has been awarded to a young researcher from the National Tree Seed Center of Burkina Faso, founded and directed by Dr Ouédraogo to...