Nutrition-sensitive forest restoration to enhance the capacity of rural communities in Burkina Faso to adapt to change
Abstract
In Burkina Faso, environmental degradation poses constraints to development. Large-scale restoration of environments is now a priority, but appropriate measures need to be adopted to ensure the long-term survival of planted vegetation cover, especially the involvement of local communities and the use of high quality seeds and seedlings of an appropriate set of species which meet local livelihood needs. The project will focus on forest restoration efforts in Burkina Faso, implemented at different scales and by different stakeholders. It will assess the opportunities to promote the adoption of a larger portfolio of tree species and greater intraspecific diversity, in order to conserve biodiversity and increase nutritional benefits. It will analyze a representative set of ongoing forest restoration efforts in selected sites across different ecoregions, characterized by varying environmental conditions (mainly rainfall patterns and soil), and institutional and socio-economic aspects (e.g. land tenure arrangements, ethnic composition, linkages with institutional and informal supplies of tree seeds and seedlings). It will assess which factors play a major role in successfully restoring a flow of goods and services (including diet diversification) provided by the re-established forest. It will contribute to the development of indicators of successful forest restoration, inclusive of the socio-economic dimension, currently missing in monitoring and evaluation protocols. Finally, the project will focus on characterizing, in different places and at different times, the nutritional properties of edible parts of one of the most important food tree species in Burkina Faso (Parkia biglobosa), which has a large potential for wider use in forest restoration efforts. Capacity development associated with the project will include actions targeting students and young researchers, as well as farmers. Burkinabe students will be trained under each partner to contribute to the four main research areas covered by the project: 1) Documentation and assessment of forest restoration practices in different regions of Burkina Faso; 2) Mapping the supply chain of tree seeds and seedlings from nurseries to users and identification of best sources of planting material; 3) Identification of indicators to assess the success of forest restoration efforts, through a participatory process with farmers; 4) Characterization of the variation in nutritional properties of P. biglobosa’s edible parts. Problem analysis and research will be done in a participatory way with local women and men and with NGOs responsible for training farmers so that they increase their capacity to restore their own forests, to monitor restoration and to adapt practices as needed.
Publikationen
Another brick in the Great Green Wall? Criteria and Indicators to monitor Forest and Landscape Restoration in Burkina Faso
Autoren: Huber, P; Vacik, H; Ouedraogo, M; Vinceti, B Jahr: 2017
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Project staff
Harald Vacik
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Harald Vacik
harald.vacik@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91312
BOKU Project Leader
01.09.2016 - 31.08.2019
BOKU partners
External partners
Bioversity International
Barbara Vinceti
coordinator
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique _x000D_ Institut de Recherche en Sciences Appliquées et Technologies _x000D_
Hagrétou SAWADOGO née LINGANI
partner
Centre National de Semences Forestières
Sina Sibidou, Moussa Ouedraogo, Christiane Sylvie Yameogo - Gamene
partner