Burkina Faso - Community Investment Project for Agricultural Fertility (PICOFA)

The Community Investment Project for Agricultural Fertility (PICOFA) is part of both the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and the National Integrated Soil Fertility Management Strategy. It aims to address the needs expressed by rural communities in the areas of erosion control, restoration of soil fertility, small-scale irrigation, bottom land development, improvement of farming and stockbreeding techniques as well as increased production downstream. The project will build the capacity of local communities, farmers’ organizations and the technical services involved. It will establish and implement village soil fertility integrated management projects whose activities include soil amendment and conservation activities using appropriate technologies. The main components of the project are: A) support for integrated management of soil fertility; B) local capacity building; and C) project management.