State of Nutrition in Burkina Faso:
- Towards Nutrition MDGs in Burkina Faso: Will Capacity to Act Follow the Commitment? – SCN News (PDF, see pg 23)
- Planning for going to scale with nutrition interventions – Burkina Faso Ministry of Health Presentation (PDF)
Success Stories:
| Cell Phones, Composting, and Emergency Feeding Centers | |
| Story by Bread for the World | |
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The people of Burkina Faso – a landlocked West African country just north of Ghana – are extremely vulnerable to hunger because of poverty and climate change. The global spikes in staple food prices that began in 2008 created deeper poverty and more malnutrition. Poverty and high food prices mean that Burkina Faso’s grain belt actually has one of the nation’s highest rates of malnutrition. Read more… |
| Nutrition education for mothers promotes child health in Burkina Faso | |
| Story by UNICEF | |
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In this village located in a remote area of Gourcy, Burkina Faso – one of the world’s least developed nations – a recently established nutrition rehabilitation centre is providing life-saving services to moderately undernourished children and their mothers. Read more… |
| Vital role for local food | |
| Article from IRIN Africa | |
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Local food – like sesame, tamarind and certain leaves – is a vital tool in the fight against malnutrition, say aid workers training families in northern Burkina Faso. Communities who know the nutritional value of local food, and have the means to conserve and use it, are far less vulnerable, say the NGO Eau Vive and local health workers. Read more… |
| Boost for garden drip irrigation | |
| Article from IRIN Africa | |
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Helen Keller International (HKI) is set to distribute household drip irrigation kits to some 300 families in eastern Burkina Faso who are planting gardens as part of an HKI programme to boost consumption of essential nutrients. While drip irrigation is used increasingly in commercial farms it is not widely used in individual gardens. “But given the water shortages, to continue encouraging families to grow and eat nutritious foods we are introducing this technique for home gardens,” HKI’s Olivier Vebamba told IRIN. Read more… |