Food systems

Food security for farming families

Brief description of the project

Restoring and maintaining soil fertility is a major challenge in Burkina Faso, exacerbated by a multi-faceted crisis. With a bundle of activities that combine natural resource management with improved food security and alternative income-generating measures, newTree, together with its Burkinabe partner tiipaalga, is helping to reduce pressure on local ecosystems and improve the food security and resilience of farming families.

Project goals

• Promote the restoration of vegetation cover, the regeneration of natural ecosystems and the socio-economic development of farming families through plots actively managed and protected by them.
• Qualitative and quantitative increase in agricultural productivity and improvement of the food security of farming families through targeted training, application of agroecological techniques and supported natural regeneration, promotion of the exchange of experience, and strengthening of income opportunities, especially in women’s community gardens.
• Self-determined farming families who are aware of their potential manage their activities and farms efficiently and sustainably.