Agriculture in
Burkina Faso
The work of AGRA in Burkina Faso is aligned with the government’s Rural Investment Plan phase II (PNSR II) and the National Agricultural Investment Plan (PNIA) in actualizing the desire to revitalize the rural economy through decentralized planning and decision making processes.
19Million
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Jules Some
AGRA Burkina FasoCountry Manager
Abdoulaye Ouedraogo
Associate Program Officer
Aurelia Dakpogan
Program Officer Christele Toe
Program Coordinator Christian Ouedraogo
Program Officer Kodjo Kondo
M&E Officer, Geographical Service Team (GST)
Stephane Bayala
Associate Program OfficerContact
Burkina Faso
S/C WASCAL Competence Center
06 BP9507
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Email: info@agra.org
Ministère de l’agriculture et des aménagements hydro-agricoles
Address: 03 BP 7005 Ouaga 2000
Tel: +226 25 49 99 14
https://www.agriculture.gov.bf/accueil
Challenges in Agriculture
AGRA’s strategy for Burkina Faso builds on its decade-long experience supporting the sector and prioritizes initiatives that complement the work of other actors to significantly increase smallholder farmers’ income and food security through an improved enabling environment and strengthened linkages between market and production systems.
Our Investments
AGRA has worked in Burkina Faso since 2006 with investments in input and output markets systems development; innovative finance; research capacity building, and policy and advocacy. In the first decade of our work, we invested US$21.5 million in Burkina Faso’s agricultural industry with the following results:
US$21.5 million invested in Burkina Faso’s agricultural industry
Early Results
$10.4Million
Total Amount Committed for Six Projects800,000
Farmers Committed to Date
2.139MT
Improved Seeds Sold
197,358
Village-based Advisers recruited and trained$3.4Million
$3.4Million97,626
Farmers Reached with Extension System Training
Further Resources
Funding partners
Other Partners
