Forest Connect Burkina Faso

Forest Connect works to reduce poverty by linking small and medium forest enterprises with national forest programmes, markets and service providers

Forest Connect is a four-year programme (2007 - 2010) financed by the FAO aimed at strengthening small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) by linking them to national forest programmes, markets and service providers. The Forest Connect programme is being implemented in eleven countries – Burkina Faso, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Lao PDR, Mali, Mozambique, Uganda, and Nepal. Forest Connect Burkina Faso, implemented by TREE AID, focuses on the non-timber forest products sector, and aims particularly at increasing the understanding of the sector through a comprehensive diagnostics study and increasing the visibility of SMFEs and their level of organisation and connectedness so that they can better access markets and service providers and have a voice in national forestry policies that affect their livelihoods.

The main non-timber forest value chains in Burkina Faso include shea (shea nuts and shea butter), dawadawa (pods and seeds to make a spice called “soumbala”), tamarind (fruit and leaves), baobab (fruit pulp and leaves), Arabic gum and honey.

For questions concerning Forest Connect Burkina Faso please contact:

Elvis Tangem
Enterprise Support Manager
TREE AID West Africa Office

elvis.tangem@treeaid.org.uk

Tel: +226 50 36 35 34