Meet Steve Yameogo founder of Yam Agro Industrie Burkina Faso which transforms local fruits into jams, syrups and wines.
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by Emeka Okafor
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With a Master's degree in Business Law, Oumou OUEDRAOGO had another vision for her career. After working as a lawyer and project coordinator for a few years, she decided to resign and become a food entrepreneur. Despite the challenges that she faced, Oumou armed herself with courage, grew her business and became a reference in the meat smoking business. Today, she sells between 40 and 200 chickens per day. "In the years to come, I see my business evolve into a large processing unit for poultry and other products," says Oumou.
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
Rodolphe Zan forms a cooperative to help poultry farmers in Wayalgui to better organise themselves and take good care of their birds. This cooperative has received support from the iDEAL Burkina project through training on the use of ICTs, and allocation of computer equipment. "It was very beneficial because we were trained in finding customers through Facebook and in communicating through Facebook. We have a page dedicated to the cooperative. We had to do it because, quite simply, we understood that we have to go on the internet," says Rodolphe.
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
Siaka SANON is the son of a cereal seller. He took over his mother's business and transformed it into a corn processing unit where semolina, flour, gritz and bran for animals are produced. Siaka saw that the consumer trend is changing and that the consumer would be interested to buy semi-processed products, rather than buying corn kernels and prepare from scratch. This is how he started to process corn into different products, an activity that paid off for him. “Our vision is to believe that from local raw materials, we can have very good quality products,” says Siaka.
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From being a shepherd in Bobo-Dioulasso, then apprentice butcher in Ouahigouya, Boukari Diallo is today at the head of a successful company that employs around twenty people.Boukari was an apprentice butcher at the big market of Ouahigouya in Burkina Faso. One evening, a customer came to buy meat when the market was already closed. This is when he got the idea that he will open a butcher shop, whereby meat would be available even in the evenings, when meat is not available anywhere in the city. “There is a big difference between the other butcher shops and ours. We offer beef bourguignon, sausage, merguez, pâtés, smoked sausage, first and second choice minced meat, fillets and kidney. In short, we offer all types of meat here,” says Boukari.
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
For six years, the Dryland Development Programme, DryDev, worked with communities in six dryland areas of Burkina Faso to help move from subsistence agriculture to sustainable rural development.
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
In Loumbila, located some 20 km from Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, Euloge Tapsoba is processing corn into different products.
Euloge founded his company, ALEPA, in 2007 when he was still a student. At the beginning he was just buying and selling the corn. But later, he realised that he was losing an opportunity by not processing the corn. Processing would add value to the product, and also create more jobs, which is his objective. He then ventured into corn processing and it worked well. However, he was not able to meet the demand of the market. Through the support from the Danish project PCESA, he was able to scale up his business and increase his production capacity...[more]
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SOFAB was created in 2009. It was born from an initiative of farmers organised in cooperative, who asked the support of the Government of Burkina Faso to set up a livestock feed factory to contribute to the improvement of feeding farm animals in the country. The Government of Burkina Faso found that it was a very good idea and invested in the project.
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Mani Tese, supporting bio-based products is not just at the production level, but also at the level of marketing which allows the producer to get a profit from the activity. As for the customers, buying the products directly from the producer also means that they can visit their farms and see how the vegetables are grown.
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At Faso Attiéké, our vision is to be the leader in the production of high quality attiéké and 100% Burkinabè,” says Florence.
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
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Kevin DOAMBA is a graduate in animal production. He has developed a pyramid that combines crop production, poultry and fish farming. Kevin’s observation was that in Burkina Faso, farmers are dependent on rainfall and with climate change, it does not rain like before. The pyramid system that he conceived enables the user to grow crops in a small space, and other requirements such as water and nutrients can be controlled. “I was surrounded by a multidisciplinary team that supported me in the field of consulting or implementation of the prototype. There is a welder, a plumber, a plastic specialist. It's through teamwork that we are able to put this device in place,” says Kevin.
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Maazou MAIGA is an agronomist and government official. In parallel, he runs a cattle feed manufacturing unit.
In Fada N’Gourma, a town in the East of Burkina Faso, Maazou comes from a family involved in livestock breeding and trade. Since his childhood, he is used to help in the family business, notably by collecting cereal brans to feed the animals.
“We are able to satisfy about 80% of the demand per week or about 80 tons of feed per week,” says Maazou.
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
Esther Diendere , a microbiologist, transforms wild fruits from Burkina Faso into juices of the brand "Glou". Mrs. Diendere got the idea to start an agro-processing enterprise at the time when she was teaching in high school. She started with a capital of 500,000 FCFA to engage in the processing of dairy products before devoting herself to the production of natural fruit juices. Today's company produces 12 flavors of juices, distributed to wholesalers, supermarkets and shops in Ouagadougou and other cities of Burkina Faso. "What encouraged and motivated me to move forward is the support of my family. My husband and my children are always there to support me, "says Mrs. Diendéré.
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
Ali, former candidate of illegal migration to Europe, has reconverted to vegetable production in Boulmiougou, a region in the west of Ouagadougou.
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West Africa's biggest solar power plant goes onstream on Wednesday as Burkina Faso, one of the world's poorest countries, inaugurates a novel scheme to boost renewables and cut energy dependence on its neighbours.
The 55-hectare plant at Zagtouli on the outskirts of the capital Ouagadougou will be able to churn out 33 megawatts - enough to power tens of thousands of homes...[more]
With its 129,600 solar panels on a surface area of 60 hectares – the equivalent of 84 football pitches – this 33 MW power plant will be the largest ever built in the Sahel. The system installed here enables direct current to be transformed into HV 90kV current. The plant is linked to the Zagtouli transformer substation, which provides the Bobo- Dioulasso/Ouagadougou electricity interconnection. Omexom has been creating large turnkey photovoltaic power plants for over 15 years...[Vinci]
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At 28 years old, the young Burkinabe engineer develops Laafi Bag, a refrigeration bag capable of keeping the vaccines at the proper temperature for four days.More here
His invention will certainly help many health workers who vaccinate children living in remote and hard-to-reach areas of Africa.
The laafi bag is a light cooling bag, for the transport of vaccines, laboratory samples and perishable goods. Equipped with a photovoltaic module to conserve and regulate the temperature inside, it allows vaccines and other sensitive products to be delivered into the most critical or inaccessible areas without interruption of the cold chain...[more]
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xoomba in action from heather chaplet on Vimeo.Xoomba is a feisty young design company producing organic fabrics, clothing and textile based products in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
by Emeka Okafor
by Emeka Okafor
What are the recipes that make fablabs a success? Born in 2011, the Ouagalab is the oldest makerspace in West Africa. Our maker Caroline Grellier followed the progress of their construction site in 2014. Two years later, she met up with the community, as close-knit as ever...[more]
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