CIFOR–ICRAF achieves science-driven impact. We conduct innovative research, strengthen partners’ capacity and actively engage in dialogue with all stakeholders, bringing the latest insights on forests, trees, landscapes and people to global decision making.

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Themes

Innovations

Flagship products

Our solutions to five global challenges

Deforestation and biodiversity loss

A climate
in crisis

Transforming food systems

Unsustainable supply and value chains

Extreme
inequality

Africa

Asia

Latin America

Europe

CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

Explore our knowledge

Browse CIFOR–ICRAF’s published research in a wide range of formats, all of which are available for free online.

This section includes knowledge products from CIFOR and ICRAF published since 2016. Please visit cifor.org or worldagroforestry.org for older publications, which will be added to this site over time.

Explore upcoming and past events across the globe and online, whether hosted by CIFOR-ICRAF or attended by our researchers.

UPCOMING EVENTS

EVENT

The scope for agroecology to support integrated implementation of the three Rio Conventions through foodsystem transformation

30 May 2022. 13:30-15:00 CEST, STOCKHOLM/NAIROBI/ONLINE
HYBRID EVENT

European Development Days 2022

21 – 22 Jun 2022. ONLINE AND BRUSSELS EXPO, BELGIUM
CIFOR-ICRAF SESSION

5th World Congress on Agroforestry

17 – 20 Jul 2022. QUÉBEC CITY, CANADA AND ONLINE

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Latest news

Science needs clear communication channels to cut through the noise, if research is to have any impact. CIFOR-ICRAF is as passionate about sharing our knowledge as we are in generating it.

CIFOR-ICRAF CORPORATE NEWS

New study details carbon capture potential of agroforestry and trees on farms

25 May 2022
FORESTS NEWS

Q+A: Turbulence in the field: Winds of change buffet agroforestry in Vietnam

11 Feb 2022
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CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Global challenges

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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

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CIFOR-ICRAF’s work in Burkina Faso focuses primarily on shea butter value chains and gender, climate change adaptation, food tree species, soil organic carbon in grazing lands, and participatory action research at the forest-farm interface.

COUNTRY FOCAL POINT

Jules Bayala

Country Coordinator

Key outcomes

  • Research on migration revealed key dynamics in gender and social roles among pastoralist and native women.

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Publications

Publication
2021

Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa C.F. Gaertn.) – the emergence of global production networks in Burkina Faso, 1960–2021
Publication
2021

Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa C.F. Gaertn.) – a peripheral empire commodity in French West Africa, 1894–1960
Publication
2021

Exploring the effects of migration on smallholder farm households in Kenya and Burkina Faso
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Videos

Video

Trees “for the grandchildren” in a community forest Bibata Ouedrago, Séloghin, Burkina Faso

31 May 2019
Video

Pastoralism and agriculture: keeping the peace in a national park buffer zone

17 May 2019
Video

The Power of One: Restoring Burkina Faso

04 Sep 2018
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Presentations

Presentation

Customary tenure, gender and access to forests and trees in Ghana and Burkina Faso

30 Sep 2019
Presentation

West Africa Forest-Farm Interface Project (WAFFI): Enhancing smallholder food security, incomes and gender equity within West Africa’s forest-farm interface

07 Jun 2018
Presentation

Agrarian change in tropical forests: A change for the better?

05 Jul 2016
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Podcasts

Podcasts

Report on the problem of grazing in Burkina Faso

11 May 2018
Podcasts

Commentary on preparations to welcome Sahel cattle

11 May 2018
Podcasts

Interview on the lack of pastoral zones in Burkina Faso

11 May 2018
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News

News

How a community-led approach is regenerating the Sahel

08 Mar 2022
News

Shoring up Burkina Faso’s shea trade requires intensive landscape restoration efforts

25 Jan 2022
News

Women producers in Burkina Faso face hardship if shea industry dwindles

03 Aug 2021
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Contact us

Jules Bayala
Country Coordinator
Email: j.bayala@cgiar.org

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