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Titre : Feeding the city : Urban agriculture and promotion of healthy and local food for the development of a sustainable and inclusive agri-food system - Burkina Faso

Pays : Burkina Faso

Date/Durée : Actual start2 022/06/3 Planned End2025/06/14

Description
The General Objective of the project intends to positively and virtuously affect the barriers to access to food and contribute to increasing food security in the Burkina Faso Central region by promoting the link between nutrition and health, in line with SDG 2 Zero Hunger. The Specific Objective of the project aims to strengthen the sustainability and inclusiveness of the agri-food system of Ouagadougou districts 3, 4, 5 and 11, by supporting sustainable urban agriculture and promoting healthy, local and nutritious food. The Expected Results are : R1. Urban agricultural production in the fruit and vegetable sector and in NFPs in districts 3, 4, 5 and 11 of Ouagadougou quantitatively and qualitatively reinforced ; R2. Improved access to healthy and nutritious food for the most vulnerable population of Ouagadougou districts 3, 4, 5 and 11 ; R3. Increased availability and consumption of locally produced healthy food in a market aware of the importance of ecological and food sustainability in Ouagadougou districts 3, 4, 5 and 11. The project aim is to have a direct impact on 265.984 people and on 1.045.625 (50,32% women) of the 4 target districts of Ouagadougou as an indirect impact.

Buts
By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality

Mise en œuvre : FONDAZIONE ACRA - ASSOCIAZIONE DI COOPERAZIONE RURALE IN AFRICA E AMERICA LATINA ONG

Financement : AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development (Government) _ Budget : € 2,918,255

Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (AICS)