Activities and meetings with NGOs & Private Actors along the way
[Français ci-dessous] The caravan team visited the Dominican Centre for Human Resources Development in Ibadan, which is developing a 30 hectare eco-organic farm inspired by the Songhai project’s integrated agroecological model in Benin. A session about sustainable agriculture was organized in the centre, where members of the caravan team and invited guests gave short presentations…
[Français ci-dessous] The caravan visited the remarkable Songhai project, in Porto-Novo, Benin. Also referred as the Songhai movement by its founder and director, Godfrey Nzamujo, the project has become one of the main references in West Africa in what comes to the development of endogenous agroecological approaches adapted to local food systems, through merging modern…
[Français ci-dessous] The caravan visited the inspiring Obrobibini Peace Complex, nicely nested in the lush hills next to Busua, a coastal village in Ghana. The learning centre of the association is surrounded by a productive agroforestry system, designed according to the principles of dynamic/syntropic agroforestry and aims at setting an example for the region as…
[Français ci-dessous] Some participants of the food systems caravan conference in Accra went on an excursion to the Accra Compost and Recycling Plant, a public-private partnership started in 2012. The participants were able to see how urban organic residues, mainly from households, are separated at the facility in order to produce compost. Plastic and metal…
[Français ci-dessous] In the training center of Tiipaalga, we could see what happens after letting the local ecosystem regenerate after 10 years of fencing, to protect the spontaneous vegetation from the wandering goats and cattle of the nearby village. The association created a truly green oasis where diverse native species could grow, using different soil…
[Français ci-dessous] The caravan spent the day in the field with the Tiipaalga and NewTree associations, to meet some of the farmers benefiting from their agro-ecological interventions, one hour north of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou. We were also joined by students and representatives of Global Water Partnership, INERA and Echo. We visited villages where women…
[Français ci-dessous] Today the food systems caravan teamed up with the association ARAOERC in Banfora to create a small food forest with local students in a vacant public land owned by the town hall. Trees such as mango, avocado, cherimoya, cacao, fig tree, papaya, tamarind, cashew as well as other useful indigenous trees and bushes…
[English below] “Les gens prennent de plus en plus conscience de l’importance du compost” dit Amadou Niane, propriétaire de la grande pépinière “Bassi Yirini” à Bamako : Une petite oasis verte entourée de deux routes principales au milieu de Bamako. L’installation vend des arbres indigènes multi-usage pour l’agroforesterie et les jardins familiaux, en plus de…