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Titre : IRRINN : Intensification of agricultural production through upscaling of innovative adapted irrigation practices and technologies

Pays/Région : Burkina Faso

Date : Start date 2021-02-01 // End date 2025-01-31

Identifiant : 396-IRRINN
Type de projet : Development and innovation oriented (research) project

Objectif
The main objective is to find ways to deal with the technical, financial, economic, organizational and institutional constraints that limit the development of small-scale irrigation in Burkina Faso. The specific objective is to establish operational and institutional support mechanisms for innovation that will place producers at the center of the innovation system for the development of solutions for irrigation adapted to different productive, economic, social and environmental contexts.

Présentation
Farmers in Burkina Faso are facing increasing climate variability, land degradation, while aiming to benefit from new agricultural markets. Farmers are increasingly settling around reservoirs, ponds, rivers and in lowland to produce irrigated crops, such as fruits and vegetables, to secure food production and generate incomes. These are often young men and women working on small plots, without efficient tools to irrigate and maintain the wells and canals. They lack financial resources and technical support. A large number of relatively cheap techniques are now available to improve the productivity of these irrigators. Many private traders promote thermic, solar or foot pumps, as well as drip irrigation and sprinkler systems. Some entrepreneurs and NGOs also support farmers to develop tube wells and farm ponds. But the adoption rate of these techniques remains low. In some cases, the technology is not adapted to specific situations (technically or financially), and the government and NGOS also struggle to design the right approach to promote a large and rapid uptake by farmers. Moreover, support to farmers who have adopted innovations remains weak and abandonment of adopted technology is common.

Coordinateur : Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)
Partenaires : CSIC - Spanish National Research Council Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles du Burkina Faso (INERA) Practica Foundation International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) Action for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship and Irrigation Systems (APESI) Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)

Financement principal : Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO)
Budget : 2 399 365 EUR

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