Food Safety
The Southwest in search of sustainable solutions
The Southwest Regional Food Security Council held its ordinary general meeting for the year on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 in Gaoua. Members discussed the soaring prices of agro-sylvo-pastoral products.
After the sessions of the Technical Committees of Provincial Food Security Councils (CT-CPSA), from 1is on August 5, 2022 in the four provinces of the South-West region, the members of the Regional Food Security Council met on Tuesday August 9, 2022 in Gaoua for their general assembly (AG-CRSA). The activity was held under the theme: Soaring prices of agro-sylvo-pastoral products in the South-West region: issues, challenges and prospects “. By choosing to dwell on this theme, the actors of the food security system in the South-West region aim to contribute to the reflection on the search for sustainable solutions for food and nutritional resilience. For the governor of the region, Boureima Savadogo, president of the AG-CRSA, the rise in the prices of agro-sylvo-pastoral products is not without consequence on the food and nutritional situation of households, in particular the most vulnerable. Indeed, he pointed out, despite cereal production deemed to be surplus in the region, several households find themselves exposed to food and nutritional insecurity and their harmful effects (reduction in the number of meals per day, increase in cases of malnutrition among children, deterioration of the terms of trade to the detriment of herders, etc.) Added to this is the deleterious security situation in certain localities in the region, which is causing population displacements and malfunctioning of certain markets. During the session, the statutory members of the AG-CRSA du Sud-Ouest validated the reports on the implementation of the CPSA and CRSA three-year action plans 2018-2020 and adopted the three-year plan 2021-2023 of the South -West. AG-CRSA du Sud-Ouest also recommended advocating for an increase in allocations of agro-pastoral inputs and production and processing equipment, to extend the practices of warrantage and contract farming in areas not still affected and to carry out a study to measure the extent and impact of the sale of cereals at the end of the wet season agricultural campaign on food and nutritional security in the region. The head of the institutional governance department of the executive secretariat of the National Food Security Council, Irissa Ilboudo, said he was satisfied with the conclusions of the meeting. He indicated that the stage of Gaoua gives the starting signal of the series of AG-CRSA programmed to be held in the 13 regions of Burkina Faso.
Summary by Joseph HARO