Category Archives: Burkina Faso

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Progress in Promoting Ecological Agriculture and Food Security in Eastern Burkina Faso

Written on Sep 6, 2011 4:33 pm, by groundswell

Between January and May 2010, Fatou Batta, Groundswell’s Co-Coordinator for West Africa, organized a series of planning workshops that brought together representatives of a number of government agencies, non-governmental and community-based organizations working in the field of agroecology to define...
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Update from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali

Written on Jul 8, 2011 1:06 pm, by groundswell

Steve Brescia, Groundswell’s International Coordinator, recently returned from a three-week trip to Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali. He visited our programs there and met with key local partners and many West African farmers. This slide show captures some of what...
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Taking advantage of new opportunities: health, urban-rural linkages, and climate change (part 7 of 8)

Written on Jun 21, 2011 2:20 pm, by groundswell

This is the seventh post in an eight-part series about how we can transform the roles of non-governmental organizations like Groundswell to make food sovereignty a reality. Read the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth posts. Taking advantage of...
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Expanding territory for agroecology (part 4 of 8)

Written on May 11, 2011 3:34 pm, by groundswell

This is the fourth post in an eight-part series about how we can transform the roles of non-governmental organizations like Groundswell to make food sovereignty a reality. Read the first, second and third posts. Expanding territory for agroecology Bern Guri...
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Fatou Batta: food solutions by and for people and the planet

Written on Apr 4, 2011 11:00 pm, by groundswell

On April 1st and 2nd, Fatou Batta, Groundswell’s Co-Coordinator for West Africa, participated as a panelist at a session on Food Solutions at the Pacific Northwest Funders Conference in Seattle. Fatou’s presentation, titled “Food Solutions by and for People and...
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Fatou Batta: African women promoting ecological agriculture and local food alternatives

Written on Mar 8, 2011 1:44 pm, by groundswell

Today, the 100th International Women’s Day, is the perfect time to honor Fatoumata Batta, Groundswell’s Co-Coordinator for West Africa. Fatou has made immeasurable contributions to the health and wellbeing of women in her native Burkina Faso as well as women-led...
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Groundswell leads process to develop a methodological guide for strengthening Endogenous Development in Africa

Written on Jul 9, 2010 4:05 pm, by groundswell

Rural communities in developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America have pursued their local processes of development and survived, indeed often thrived, since time immemorial. They achieved this without the advice of outside experts and without depending on major...
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First step toward achieving food security in eastern Burkina Faso

Written on Jun 1, 2010 6:12 pm, by groundswell

Earlier this year Groundswell International received a grant to support a participatory planning process with rural community-based organizations in the eastern part of Burkina Faso in order to develop a three-year plan to improve the wellbeing of tens of thousands...
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Burkina Faso 3-year action plan under development

Written on Mar 15, 2010 11:27 am, by groundswell

During the last week of February, Groundswell’s Co-coordinators for West Africa, Fatou Batta and Peter Gubbels, facilitated a workshop with local organizations in eastern Burkina Faso to develop a three-year action plan. The plan focuses on working with peasant associations...
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Fatou Batta on what Groundswell means to her

Written on Oct 27, 2009 12:50 pm, by groundswell

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