# Sustainable intensification in Sudano-Sahelian Burkina Faso: an household perspective on who does what?

David Berre, Myriam Adam, Christophe Koffi, Mathieu Vigne, Denis Gautier

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David Berre, Myriam Adam, Christophe Koffi, Mathieu Vigne, Denis Gautier. Sustainable intensification in Sudano-Sahelian Burkina Faso: an household perspective on who does what?. Conférence intensification durable (CID 2019) : Leviers d'intensification pour une transition agroécologique des systèmes de production en Afrique Sub-Saharienne, Oct 2019, Dakar, Senegal. IESOL, 1 poster, 2019. *hal-05174816*

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## Objectives and Context

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* ✓ Sustainable intensification (SI) of farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa is complex due to **high diversity** of biophysical and socioeconomic contexts

* ✓ **Typologies** based on statistical tools are classically used to reduce this complexity and to reveal main drivers of diversity

* ✓ SI technologies are frequently **targeted** based on **household** characteristics, assuming clear link between household constraints and agricultural practices

* ✓ This study assess this **link between household typology & agricultural practices typology** (chosen to indicate gradient of sustainability) for 291 farmers in Tuy province

## Typologies to tackle both diversity of household & agricultural practices

### Typology of household

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* ✓ 4 groups mainly discriminated by livestock and land, but also crop diversity

### Typology of agricultural practices

<table><thead><tr><th colspan="2">Data</th></tr><tr><th>HOUSEHOLD</th><th>PRACTICES</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Land allocated to cotton</td><td>Land under no till</td></tr><tr><td>Land allocated to legume</td><td>Crop residue use</td></tr><tr><td>Land size</td><td>Crop rotation</td></tr><tr><td>Income per Adult. Eq.</td><td>Tree density</td></tr><tr><td>Adult. Eq. per Ha</td><td>Number of tree species</td></tr><tr><td>Livestock per Ha</td><td>Organic nitrogen management</td></tr><tr><td>Simpson Index</td><td>Soil management</td></tr><tr><td>Adult. Eq.</td><td>Mineral inputs use</td></tr></tbody></table>

Mineral input

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Agricultural labor

* ✓ 4 groups mainly discriminated by labor availability and mineral input use

* ✓ Strong majority of mineral inputs user in the region (related to cotton production)

## Relations between household types and agricultural practices

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## Take-home messages on targeting sustainable intensification technologies based on typologies

- Household typologies are proper tools to infer agricultural practices but challenges remained to improve this link (e.g. interdisciplinary and diachronic dataset).

- Agroecological transition in Sub-Saharan Africa is a case-by-case approach but generic approaches need to be explored to scale it out