The regional session workshop for Hauts-Bassins stakeholders on the initiative “Large options to fight meals loss in Africa” was held on Thursday June 6, 2024 on the SABY resort in Bobo -Dioulasso (RE-GAIN) carried by AGRA. Basile Ouédraogo chaired the opening of the proceedings, representing the designated nationwide authority of the Inexperienced Local weather Fund.
The RE-GAIN program is a brand new initiative launched by AGRA and the Inexperienced Local weather Fund to fight post-harvest meals loss in Africa. It goals to strengthen the local weather resilience of smallholder farmers and assist them use sustainable options to scale back post-harvest losses. Burkina Faso is one in all seven African international locations chosen to learn from this program. The Hauts-Bassins regional session workshop that introduced collectively key figures from Burkina’s agricultural sector and the area is the second of its form after Ouagadougou. In keeping with Abdoulaye Ouédraogo, venture supervisor at AGRA Burkina and who represents the Nation Director of AGRA, he goals to current the initiative and acquire donations from the principle agricultural stakeholders within the area to permit the event of the RE-GAIN program. “It’s a matter of gathering their issues and experiences to see what dangers and risks have an effect on agricultural manufacturing and enhance post-harvest losses.” We’re ready for these regional gamers to inform us which areas ought to be prioritized for funding, and which actions ought to be prioritized to fight these meals losses. This may enable the consultants who be a part of us to have concepts that can information them in creating initiatives that higher meet the wants of actors on the bottom,” he mentioned. Clearly, this workshop is being achieved capable of assess and prioritize the local weather dangers going through Burkina Faso, by analyzing specifically their influence on the agricultural sector and the ensuing meals losses ‘ assist to determine and prioritize potential options to scale back these challenges. In his opening speech, Basile Ouédraogo, knowledgeable on local weather change and consultant of the designated nationwide authority at of the Inexperienced Local weather Fund, that, “Burkina Faso, like lots of its African neighbors, is going through local weather challenges that not solely threaten meals safety but in addition the well-being of rural communities.” On the identical time, post-harvest meals loss represents a significant impediment to agricultural sustainability and prosperity in Burkina Faso and the continent basically. In keeping with FAO statistics, about one-third of agricultural manufacturing is misplaced between discipline and fork, or about $200 billion yearly. For Mr. Ouédraogo, “this waste is extra unacceptable as a result of hundreds of thousands of individuals on the continent endure from starvation and malnutrition.” That’s the reason he’s very comfortable to see this system RE-GAIN, a revolutionary marketing campaign that goals to fight meals loss, daylight. And to conclude that this workshop above all permits us the foundations of a robust program and put down successfully in Burkina Faso and have a long-lasting influence on meals and diet safety within the nation. The members like Soumaïla Sanou, SG of the Regional Union of Agricultural Professionals respect the holding of the workshop based on him, post-harvest losses have a robust influence on manufacturing within the area and the event of the RE-GAIN program will assist develop sustainable options to scale back these meals losses.
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