“Small-scale producers, including IDPs, improve their resilience to food and nutrition insecurity by strengthening their livelihoods and increasing their production”. This is axis 1 of the RESICOM project. To this end, as a complement to early recovery actions and to sustainably strengthen the resilience of agroforestry households to the effects of climate change, the project intends to train 10,000 producers in new climate change adaptation techniques, including contract reforestation. Developed by SOS SAHEL International Burkina Faso (SOSSIBF), reforestation by contract is an effective reforestation approach that involves contracting with beneficiaries to make them responsible for maintaining the seedlings, in return for premiums based on the survival rate of the seedlings. This approach has the advantage of obtaining greater community support and a good plant survival rate (around 60%). As part of the RESICOM project, 20 000 seedlings of local income-generating species of high nutritional value such as moringa, baobab, Acacia macrostachya, etc. are targeted.
From June 24 to 29, 2024, a team from SOSSIBF paid out bonuses to the first contract growers in the North and Boucle du Mouhoun regions. Among the various contract growers, Mr. OUEDRAOGO Amadé, a grower in the village of Irim (North region, commune of Rambo) is one of the top growers who received a bonus of over 500,000 FCFA with 510 plants planted (500 mango trees, 10 neres) at the start and 485 plants surviving (480 mango trees, 5 neres) at the counting stage. “This money will be used to better maintain the surviving plants and to plant new ones. Reforestation by contract is a good initiative by the RESICOM project, which will make a major contribution to the fight against deforestation. By nature, I’m a fan of reforestation, an activity I learned in Côte d’Ivoire. Back in my village, I decided to try it out, and the RESICOM project is a source of encouragement to achieve a positive result for the well-being of the village,” confided Mr. OUEDRAOGO Amadé.
Mr OUEDRAOGO Amadé receiving his 500,000FCFA bonus from Mr Abdoulaye RABO, RESICOM/SOSSIBF Project Coordinator)
A view of the perimeter on which the 485 seedlings justifying the 500,000 FCFA premium were planted.
