Association céréale/légumineuse et intégration agriculture-élevage en zone soudano-sahélienne

Bambara, Dasmané; Zoundi, Jean Sibiri; Tiendrébéogo, Jean-Pierre

doi:10.1684/agr.2008.0203

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“…While the vast majority store either sorghum or maize or sorghum and maize, other crops stored include rice, groundnuts, millet, and assorted beans. This is consistent with warrantage in the region(Bambara et al, 2008).…”

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Locking crops to unlock investment: Experimental evidence on warrantage in Burkina Faso

Delavallade

Godlonton

2023

Journal of Development Economics

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confidence: 86%

Locking crops to unlock investment: Experimental evidence on warrantage in Burkina Faso

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Godlonton

2023

Journal of Development Economics

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“…Cultural associations are practiced in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Africa for traditional reasons and the need for food security through diversification [24].…”

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Determinants of Agroecological Practices Adoption in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone

Coulibaly¹,

Motelica-Heino²,

Hien³

2019

JEP

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Under the combined effect of both climatic and anthropogenic factors, agroecosystems and especially arable soils undergo a worrying and fast degradation in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Western Africa threatening its socio-economic development. Food systems need to be better managed to be more resilient, to increase agricultural production, while conserving natural resources and biodiversity. Agroecological practices alternatively with traditional cultural techniques have been locally experimented to cope with local pedoclimatic constraints such as weak (low) soil fertility and climate change, increasing food demand and economic conditions. Our work aims at by taking stock of agroecological knowledge as well as the determinants of their adoption with small-scale farmers in Eastern Burkina Faso. A survey (48 farmers) was conducted in Sampieri (Kantchari district), and Logit model was used to determine equations for agroecological practices adoption. Results show that traditional production practices for millet-bean cultural systems are gradually being replaced by those of agroecological. In fact, 60.4% of producers have participated in at least one agroecological training session and 60.8% of producers are interested at least in one agroecological topic. The most adopted and practiced techniques were superficial plowing, stone-rows, zaï and compost, single or in combination (60% of the producers). Determinants of these practices adoption were the increased crop yields, improved of producers' incomes, the provision or otherwise of material and human resources and training. Additionally, variables such as training, possession of agricultural equipment were positively correlated to the adoption of agroecological practices while illiteracy impacts negatively and significantly this adoption. Moreover, agroecological practices had a significant effect on grain and straw yields of sorghum, thus confirming producers' claims about the improvements in production observed following the adoption of these practices.

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“…The introduction of cowpea into the cropping system, in addition to its potentially positive medium-term effect on soil properties [48], also allows diversification of the diet in a cash crop-oriented zone. Moreover, the additional haulms obtained make it possible to enrich the nutritional value of the animal ration [49] [50].…”

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On-Station and On-Farm Assessment of the Effects of Soil Cover on Conservation Agriculture Performances in Western Burkina Faso

Coulibaly¹,

Ouattara²,

Ouédraogo³

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Conservation agriculture (CA) is one option for dealing with such a challenge, but its main difficulty in West Africa is in maintaining permanent soil cover, particularly with crop residues, due to their preferential use for livestock fodder. The aim of our study was to determine the effect of crop residue mulching on the efficiency of cropping systems based on the principles of conservation agriculture. The experimental design was based on on-station experiments, intended to assess the specific effect of different levels of crop residue mulching on the biological and chemical soil fertility parameters, while in on-farm experiments we mainly assessed the ability of farmers to actually collect crop residues for soil cover and the associated effects on weeds and yields. The on-station experimental design was in fully randomized factorial blocks comprising five treatments and three replicates. The treatments compared the conventional system, tillage and cropping without mulching, and CA systems with 1 ton, 2 tons, and 4 tons of straw per hectare in plots of 10 m 2 . The effects of CA on the macrofauna, respiratory activity, and soil chemical parameters were evaluated in the 2014 and 2015 growing seasons. For the on-farm experiments, the conventional and CA practices of 15 farmers were compared to conventional practices in 2013 and 2014 in plots of 626 m 2 . The on-station results showed that the presence of crop residue mulching induced an increase in the density of termites. A significant release of carbon dioxide (CO 2

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Association céréale/légumineuse et intégration agriculture-élevage en zone soudano-sahélienne

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

Locking crops to unlock investment: Experimental evidence on warrantage in Burkina Faso

Locking crops to unlock investment: Experimental evidence on warrantage in Burkina Faso

Determinants of Agroecological Practices Adoption in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone

On-Station and On-Farm Assessment of the Effects of Soil Cover on Conservation Agriculture Performances in Western Burkina Faso

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