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Facilitating engagement and building local capacity to improve gender equity and smallholder food security: The West Africa Forest Farm Interface (WAFFI) Project

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Key messages

The West Africa Forest–Farm Interface (WAFFI) Project:
  • builds the capacity of rural women and men to proactively participate in policy dialogue and knowledge-sharing processes (998 women and men participated in the Auto Appraisals and Participatory Action Research).
  • improves understanding of farmer management of multi-use landscapes that combineagriculture, forestry, livestock and natural resource management
  • facilitates social learning to draw on local knowledge, to ensure research relevance and to validate scientific findings
  • applies a gender-responsive approach to all activities in Burkina Faso and Ghana,ensuring that women make up more than 40% of participants and beneficiaries.

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    Publication year

    2019

    Authors

    CIFOR

    Language

    English

    Keywords

    livelihoods, small scale farming, food security

    Geographic

    Burkina Faso, Ghana

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