Burkina Faso

Burkinabe women design an innovative, sustainable business model
Franchising allows them to improve the quality of home-parboiled rice, and sell it at a higher price Last update (01/10/2021): Franchise developed with UNERIZ adapted for resilience of rice parboiling micro-enterprises facing the effects of COVID-19
Generation Food: transforming Ouagadougou's food system
Setting up their own enterprises to produce, process or package food in a sustainable way can provide young Burkinabe with a decent income, while also tackling key issues related to the sustainability of our food system. They bring a breath of fresh air to the local food system. Last update (01/10/2021): Generation Food: The challenge continues in Ouagadougou
Producing quality rice for Burkina Faso's markets
Rice farmers and rice mills in the Centre-East region of Burkina Faso take up the challenge of maximising their production potential to offer better quality rice on the local market. Last update (02/03/2021): The rice mills bringing quality rice to Burkinabe consumers
Strengthening the access of farmers’ organisations to institutional markets in Burkina Faso
Rikolto's focus in view of creating a leverage effect that new institutional market access can have for family farmers' organisations.
West African rice farmers reconquering the local rice market
Rice farmers' organisations in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal are improving their competitiveness and their relations with the private and public sectors to win back larger shares of the rice market in West Africa.
The emerging success of Burkinabè sesame production
The sesame sector is developing rapidly in Burkina Faso thanks to strong demand from the international market. But family farmers still lack the professionalism to make the most of it. Rikolto supports the UDPS-N (Departmental Union of Sesame Producers of Niangoloko) to find solutions to problems in the sesame value chain.

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