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Burkina Faso > General information |
| FAO Representative: Mr. François RASOLO | e-mail: FAO-BF@fao.org | |
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Country area: 27422 (1000 Ha) Land area: 27360 (1000 Ha) Agricultural area: 11965 (1000 Ha) Population: 16469 (1000) GDP: 8141 (millions of US dollars) Human development index: 0.305 Global hunger index: 17.2 | ||||||||||||||||
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Thematic profiles and systems:
FAO Country briefs
- Brief overview of country's people, agriculture and FAO's major in-country development activities.
FAO Projects in the country
- from the Field Programme Management Information System (FPMIS). The content is coordinated by the Technical Cooperation Department of FAO.
Country Profiles and International Human Development Indicators
- Human Development Report Office (HDRO) – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Rural poverty country profiles
- Produced by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
News:
25/01/2012 - Hunger crisis in Chad just weeks away, warns aid agency [Source: World Food Program News]
24/01/2012 - Niger struggles to feed itself at the best of times – these are the worst of times [Source: World Food Program News]
23/12/2011 - Boosting Agricultural Higher education into CAADP [Source: FARA Blogger]
10/11/2011 - Les biocarburants : quels potentiels pour l'Afrique [Source: Agenda CIRAD]
10/11/2011 - Biofuel Prospects and Opportunities for Africa [Source: Agenda CIRAD]
25/10/2011 - Financing agricultural value chains in Africa : a synthesis of four country case studies [Source: FARA Blogger]
20/09/2011 - Do count your chickens … [Source: Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog]
19/09/2011 - Multi-actor systems as entry point for action research – Burkina Faso & Ghana [Source: Systemwide Livestock System (SLP) news]
19/05/2011 - Alimentation ou agrocarburant, faut-il choisir ? L'exemple du Burkina Faso [Source: CIRAD, Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement]
19/05/2011 - Food or biofuels: must we choose? The example of Burkina Faso [Source: CIRAD news and press releases]
Land border countries:
Geographic and Economic groups:
Africa | Community of Sahel-Saharan States | Economic Community of West African States | West African Economic and Monetary Union | western Africa
Group members of Africa
Algeria | Angola | Benin | Botswana | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Cameroon | Cape Verde | Central African Republic | Chad | Comoros | Congo | Côte d'Ivoire | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Djibouti | Egypt | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Gabon | Gambia | Ghana | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Kenya | Lesotho | Liberia | Libya | Madagascar | Malawi | Mali | Mauritania | Mauritius | Morocco | Mozambique | Namibia | Niger | Nigeria | Rwanda | Sao Tome and Principe | Senegal | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Somalia | South Africa | Sudan | Swaziland | Togo | Tunisia | Uganda | United Republic of Tanzania | Zambia | ZimbabweGroup members of Community of Sahel-Saharan States
Benin | Burkina Faso | Central African Republic | Chad | Comoros | Côte d'Ivoire | Djibouti | Egypt | Eritrea | Gambia | Ghana | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Kenya | Liberia | Libya | Mali | Mauritania | Morocco | Niger | Nigeria | Sao Tome and Principe | Senegal | Sierra Leone | Somalia | Sudan | Togo | TunisiaGroup members of Economic Community of West African States
Benin | Burkina Faso | Cape Verde | Côte d'Ivoire | Gambia | Ghana | Guinea-Bissau | Liberia | Mali | Nigeria | Senegal | Sierra Leone | TogoGroup members of West African Economic and Monetary Union
Benin | Burkina Faso | Côte d'Ivoire | Guinea-Bissau | Mali | Niger | Senegal | TogoGroup members of western Africa
Benin | Burkina Faso | Cape Verde | Côte d'Ivoire | Gambia | Ghana | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Liberia | Mali | Mauritania | Niger | Nigeria | Senegal | Sierra Leone | Togo



