Isn't the proliferation of agricultural projects and often micro-projects a negative factor for the achievement of development results in the agricultural sector?
However, the level of adoption of these good farming practices remains low and a significant number of producers are still in a state of permanent assistance. Indeed, during surveys of producers, it is clear that they are familiar with good farming practices and are aware of the benefits they could bring them. Thus, the intervention is perceived as a source of income in the short term instead of being a means of sustainable change. Moreover, this lack of external coherence in intervention strategies often leads to strategic behaviour (bias) on the part of beneficiaries. The most recent example encountered in the framework of an evaluation concerns the setting up by an NGO of endogenous trainers (paid by the beneficiaries) for the benefit of producers in a locality of the country and the organisation of training sessions (free of charge and with payment of perdiems for catering) for producers on the same themes developed by the endogenous trainers. Indeed, in the context of some evaluations of agricultural projects, there are many findings on the lack of coherence of interventions. However, it is clear from the field that interventions or implementation strategies are sometimes antagonistic and annihilate the results and progress achieved. These are interventions implemented directly by technical and financial partners, non-governmental organisations, associations, etc.Ī priori, the interest and actions of all these actors constitute an excellent asset for the development of the agricultural sector and to reach one of the " Hight five" of the African Union namely " Feed Africa".
In addition to these projects, there is a myriad of interventions carried out by other categories of actors other than the public administration. Under the Priority Investment Programme (PIP), there are more than 80 development projects and programmes implemented by the public administration in the agricultural sector. In Burkina Faso, the agricultural sector is the field of intervention of a multitude of actors (Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Research (INERA), NGOs, TFPs, associations and farmers' organisations). I would like to share with you one of the themes I am working on at the moment.
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