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The onion sector is booming in Burkina Faso, especially in the target regions of the Burkina Faso Food System Resilience Programme (FSRP-BF). Overall, however, poor farming…

Over 70% of Sierra Leone's farming population is found in rural areas, mainly engaged in rain-fed subsistence farming with less than one hectare of land. Given this scale of…

On 17 March 2025, Chad's Ministry of Agricultural Production and Industrialisation was the scene of an event of great importance for the region's agricultural and food…

Recent progress in the development and supply of improved crop varieties in Togo has helped to improve agricultural productivity and yields.However, this production has so…

With the aim of promoting the mass adoption of innovative agricultural practices and technologies that are resilient to climate change, the Food System Resilience Programme…

From 30 January 2024 to 14 February 2025, a joint participatory mission to identify suitable agricultural sites was carried out in the Massakory Regional Coordination in…

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), through the World Bank-funded Food Systems Resilience Programme (FSRP), has awarded grants to six researchers at the…

Haja B. Koroma, a single mother, moved to Makeni from Freetown after getting married. However, her husband abandoned her with her two children, both enrolled at university,…

The 9ᵉ edition of the National Livestock Day, held in Kaolack (Central Zone) in February 2025, highlighted the challenges and opportunities of the sector in Senegal. The…

The low level of fertility of most soils in Burkina Faso is mainly characterised by a low level of organic matter and a lack of nutrients. This is a constraint on increasing…