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OPERATIONALIZING AN INNOVATION PLATFORM APPROACH FOR COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH ON CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE IN BURKINA FASO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

DER DABIRE ,
NADINE ANDRIEU ,
PATRICE DJAMEN ,
KALIFA COULIBALY ,
HELENA POSTHUMUS ,
AMADOU MOHAMADOUN DIALLO ,
MEDINA KARAMBIRI ,
JEAN-MARIE DOUZET  and
BERNARD TRIOMPHE
DER DABIRE
Affiliation:
International Center of Research on Livestock in Sub-humid Zone (CIRDES), Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
NADINE ANDRIEU*
Affiliation:
French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia
PATRICE DJAMEN
Affiliation:
Green Innovation for Development (Greenindev), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
KALIFA COULIBALY
Affiliation:
International Center of Research on Livestock in Sub-humid Zone (CIRDES), Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
HELENA POSTHUMUS
Affiliation:
Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, United Kingdom
AMADOU MOHAMADOUN DIALLO
Affiliation:
International Center of Research on Livestock in Sub-humid Zone (CIRDES), Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
MEDINA KARAMBIRI
Affiliation:
International Center of Research on Livestock in Sub-humid Zone (CIRDES), Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
JEAN-MARIE DOUZET
Affiliation:
French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France Green Innovation for Development (Greenindev), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
BERNARD TRIOMPHE
Affiliation:
French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France
*
§§Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]; Contact address: French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (CIRAD), 73 av. Jean-François Breton, 34 398 Montpellier Cedex, France.
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Summary

Numerous innovation platforms have been implemented to encourage the adoption of agricultural innovations and stakeholder interactions within a value chain. Yet little research has been undertaken on the design and implementation of innovation platforms focussing on issues other than market access and aiming to encourage agro-ecological intensification. This is the case for the development of Conservation Agriculture (CA) in West Africa, which due to its complex nature calls for technical, organizational and institutional changes at the level of both production systems and village territories. This article analyses the design and implementation process of platforms in three villages in Burkina Faso aiming to develop CA technical references with local stakeholders, and to renew rules of interaction between stakeholders within a territory. The platforms enabled farmers in the three villages to actively participate in the identification of the cropping systems that were tested and to improve their knowledge and mastery of CA. They furthermore promoted networking among producers and facilitated the development of new rules for crop residue use. The platforms thus appear to be relevant mechanisms, enabling complex innovations to be addressed. Diverse modifications and improvements are discussed that would ensure the sustainability of the platforms and the evolution of their objectives and activities beyond those of the project under which they were launched.

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Experimental Agriculture , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , July 2017 , pp. 460 - 479
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