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DocumentLe warrantage de la COPSA-C dans le Sud-Ouest du Burkina Faso 2012
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La Coopérative de prestation de services agricoles (COPSA-C), également appelée « Coobsa », ce qui signifie en langue Dagara « cultiver, c'est mieux », est une organisation paysanne (OP) dont le siège est à Founzan. La COPSA-C a pour mission d'augmenter les revenus agricoles de ses membres, afin d'améliorer leurs conditions économiques et leur sécurité alimentaire. Ainsi, le warrantage fait partie des techniques phares que promeut la COPSA-C pour soutenir les populations rurales à garantir une g estion et une valorisation optimale de leur production agricole, dans une région caractérisée par la dispersion et l'enclavement de bas-fonds cultivables. -
DocumentInventory credit 2012
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In Sahel countries in general, and Niger in particular, agriculture is vulnerable to unfavourable climate conditions, resulting in low crop yields. Often, small-scale farmers are forced to sell off their agricultural products at low prices straight after harvest, to earn cash and pay off their debts or to meet their immediate needs (food, medical care, travel to cities, children’s education, etc.). During the lean season, the price of these same agricultural products rises. Farmers’ low incomes prevent them from buying inputs that would enable them to increase their yields and output. As a result, both men and women producers find themselves trapped in a vicious circle of spiralling poverty. It was against this backdrop that, in 1999, inventory credit was introduced in Niger, to offer solutions to the challenges of financing agricultural production and addressing the impoverishment of farmers, by making it easier for them to obtain credit in a rural setting. -
DocumentInternational Price Shocks and Technological Changes for Poverty Reduction in Burkina Faso. A General Equilibrium Approach 2009After sketching the mutual links between economic growth, agriculture, technology, poverty reduction and external factors; this paper analyses the implications of recent international price shocks on welfare and growth, notably energy and agricultural products, for Burkina Faso, a less industrialised, low-income, food-deficit, net oil-importing country. The socio-economic impacts of the above-mentioned external shocks are analysed by means of a Computable General Equilibrium model (CGE).The pape r also discusses the extent to which technological changes in agriculture, specifically the introduction of “Good Agricultural Practices” (GAP) towards “conservation agriculture”, could mitigate the welfare and growth losses derived by international price shocks. The results of the analysis show that oil price hikes in recent years had much greater impacts on the welfare of the poorer layers of the population than other price shifts, such as international food prices. Additionally, it is shown t hat the technological changes explored in this paper, in spite of their significant impacts on agricultural productivity, by no means countervail the negative welfare and growth losses brought by international price shocks. The energy dependency is a channel that systematically siphons out domestic resources, seriously hampering domestic primary capital accumulation and related endogenous-growth potential. Policy implications for poverty reduction and food security are that in Burkina Faso, ther e is an urgent focus on energy issues by all means, including the adoption of appropriate agricultural technologies. These findings are likely to apply to other less-industrialised energy-importing countries with similar socio-economic structure.
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