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Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Research Brief

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Title Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger: Research Brief
 
Creator Pul, Hippolyt
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela
Konde, Bernard B.
Zogho, Donatus
Kuuchille, Emmanuel V.
McCarthy, Nancy
Marivoet, Wim
 
Subject resilience
shocks
food security
livelihoods
natural disasters
natural resources
climate change adaptation
agricultural systems
conflict
migration
infrastructure
 
Description The World Food Programme (WFP) supports communities to mitigate the impact of and build resilience to natural and human-made shocks and stressors that contribute to food insecurity and destabilize people’s livelihoods. WFP’s interventions, therefore, aim to equip communities with the knowledge, skills, and tools to avert or mitigate the impact of cyclical natural events such as droughts and floods through asset and capacity building in affected communities. In the Sahelian areas of Burkina Faso and Niger (as part of a broader regional program also covering Chad, Mali, and Mauritania), WFP promotes climate-resilient agricultural infrastructure and systems to help address issues of land degradation, deforestation, dwindling pasturelands, and depletion of water sources, which all trigger competition for productive resources and migration of people and livestock into better-resourced areas. The interventions also aim to address the impacts of violent conflict from within and outside communities in the Sahelian belt of the two countries, especially those related to extremist groups operating in the area.
Though primarily designed to increase community assets for productive purposes, WFP’s support for the rehabilitation of lands, construction of water-harvesting and retention structures, reforestation and protection of farmlands and pastures, and soil fertility improvement interventions also aims to increase the availability of, reduce intergroup competition for, and ensure equitable access to these resources. In this way, WFP hopes to reduce conflicts over community resources. The use of participatory and collaborative processes for mobilizing and engaging communities should also contribute to increased dialogue within and between different communities and promote peaceful coexistence among the different groups. In particular, the requirement of collaborative approaches to development of communal assets is intended to create spaces of encounter and dialogue that could ease tensions, promote equity in the distribution and use of the created assets, and build relationships among various stakeholders and community groups to ensure that actions for resilience building have the support of government, development partners, and other decision-makers at several administrative levels.
 
Date 2023-05-03
2023-05-04T16:39:29Z
2023-05-04T16:39:29Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Pul, Hippolyt; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Konde, Bernard B.; Zogho, Donatus; Kuuchille, Emmanuel V.; McCarthy, Nancy; and Marivoet, Wim. 2023. Sahel social cohesion research in Burkina Faso and Niger. WFP Research Brief. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130255
https://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/136696
 
Language en
 
Relation WFP Research Brief
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute