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10 May 2022
African Development Fund helps women and children in Burkina Faso overcome food insecurity
Despite its tremendous agricultural potential, Burkina Faso has long grappled with the thorny problem of food and nutrition security.
Poor water usage, environmental degradation, vulnerability to climate change and lack of access to finance and to nutrition information are just some of the causes of food insecurity, which is widespread in the Sahel region.
And in a country, where 82% of the population is employed in the agricultural sector, low productivity has a knock-on effect on livelihoods.
