[ Impacts des risques climatiques sur la sécurité alimentaire au Burkina Faso: Identification des chemins de résilience ]
Volume 55, Issue 2, July 2021, Pages 168–177
Idrissa Semde1, Tiga Neya2, Samuel Yonkeu3, and Samuel Pare4
1 Centre de recherche et d’études en management (CREM), Université Aube Nouvelle, 06 BP: 9283, Ouagadougou 06, Burkina Faso
2 Ministère de l’Environnement, de l’Économie Verte et du Changement climatique, Burkina Faso
3 Université Aube Nouvelle, 06 BP: 9283, Ouagadougou 06, Burkina Faso
4 Université Joseph Ki Zerbo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Original language: French
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Context: The effects of climate change make it difficult to achieve food security in Burkina Faso, despite its many resilience efforts. This is how this article aims to identify and understand the impacts of the country's main climate risks on food security and the causes of the non-resilience of the proposed solutions, in order to better help develop resilience strategies.Materials and methods: Surveys were carried out among fifteen (15) main institutions in charge of the governance of food and nutrition security in Burkina Faso using a questionnaire focused on (i) the exposure units of food security in the face of climatic hazards in Burkina Faso, (ii) the impact index of these climatic risks on food security and (iii) their exposure index. The criterion for choosing the structures surveyed was their level of involvement in food security management, or their membership in the national food crisis management committee. All fifteen (15) institutions were national.Results: the results of the work reveal that whatever the climate risk, the availability of food, its financial accessibility and the governance of food security management institutions, are the main components of food security affected between 62.5% and 92.5%, against 62% to 70% of the impacts felt by the « price stability of agricultural products » and « nutritional use of food » components. The proposed solutions come down to the control of agricultural water, the development of irrigated agriculture, as well as the strengthening of the State's skills to implement emergency measures.Conclusion: The results corroborate the work of several authors, who have analyzed the food security situation in countries experiencing the same realities as Burkina Faso. However, their analysis does not include a fifth component, namely the governance of institutions. Based on these shortcomings, the recommendations could not be robust enough to bend the food insecurity curve in Burkina Faso.
Author Keywords: food security, climate hazards, resilience, rain-fed agriculture, impact, Burkina Faso.
Volume 55, Issue 2, July 2021, Pages 168–177
Idrissa Semde1, Tiga Neya2, Samuel Yonkeu3, and Samuel Pare4
1 Centre de recherche et d’études en management (CREM), Université Aube Nouvelle, 06 BP: 9283, Ouagadougou 06, Burkina Faso
2 Ministère de l’Environnement, de l’Économie Verte et du Changement climatique, Burkina Faso
3 Université Aube Nouvelle, 06 BP: 9283, Ouagadougou 06, Burkina Faso
4 Université Joseph Ki Zerbo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Original language: French
Copyright © 2021 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Context: The effects of climate change make it difficult to achieve food security in Burkina Faso, despite its many resilience efforts. This is how this article aims to identify and understand the impacts of the country's main climate risks on food security and the causes of the non-resilience of the proposed solutions, in order to better help develop resilience strategies.Materials and methods: Surveys were carried out among fifteen (15) main institutions in charge of the governance of food and nutrition security in Burkina Faso using a questionnaire focused on (i) the exposure units of food security in the face of climatic hazards in Burkina Faso, (ii) the impact index of these climatic risks on food security and (iii) their exposure index. The criterion for choosing the structures surveyed was their level of involvement in food security management, or their membership in the national food crisis management committee. All fifteen (15) institutions were national.Results: the results of the work reveal that whatever the climate risk, the availability of food, its financial accessibility and the governance of food security management institutions, are the main components of food security affected between 62.5% and 92.5%, against 62% to 70% of the impacts felt by the « price stability of agricultural products » and « nutritional use of food » components. The proposed solutions come down to the control of agricultural water, the development of irrigated agriculture, as well as the strengthening of the State's skills to implement emergency measures.Conclusion: The results corroborate the work of several authors, who have analyzed the food security situation in countries experiencing the same realities as Burkina Faso. However, their analysis does not include a fifth component, namely the governance of institutions. Based on these shortcomings, the recommendations could not be robust enough to bend the food insecurity curve in Burkina Faso.
Author Keywords: food security, climate hazards, resilience, rain-fed agriculture, impact, Burkina Faso.
Abstract: (french)
Contexte: Les effets des changements climatiques rendent difficiles l’atteinte de la sécurité alimentaire du Burkina Faso, malgré ses multiples efforts de résilience. C’est ainsi que le présent article se propose d’identifier et comprendre les impacts des principaux risques climatiques du pays sur la sécurité alimentaire et les causes de la non résilience des solutions proposées, afin de mieux aider à élaborer des stratégies de résilience.Matériels et méthodes: Des enquêtes ont été menées auprès de quinze (15) principales institutions en charge de la gouvernance de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle au Burkina Faso à l'aide d'un questionnaire axé sur (i) les unités d’exposition de la sécurité alimentaire face aux aléas climatiques au Burkina Faso, (ii) l’indice d’impact de ces risques climatiques sur la sécurité alimentaire et (iii) leur indice d’exposition. Le critère pour choix des structures enquêtées était leur niveau d’implication dans la gestion de la sécurité alimentaire, ou leur appartenance au comité national de gestion de la crise alimentaire. Toutes les quinze (15) institutions étaient nationales.Résultats: les résultats des travaux révèlent que quel que soit le risque climatique la disponibilité de l’aliment, son accessibilité financière et la gouvernance des institutions de gestion de la sécurité alimentaire, sont les principales composantes de la sécurité alimentaire touchées entre 62,5% et 92,5%, contre 62% à 70% des impacts ressentis par les composantes « stabilité des prix des produits agricoles » et « utilisation nutritionnelle des aliments ».Les propositions de solutions se résumént à la maitrise de l’eau agricole, au développement d’agriculture irriguée, ainsi que le renforcement des compétences de l’Etat pour mise en place de mesures d’urgence.Conclusion: Les résultats corroborent les travaux de plusieurs auteurs, qui ont analysé la situation de la sécurité alimentaire dans des pays qui vivent les mêmes réalités que le Burkina Faso. Cependant, leur analyse n’intègre pas une cinquième composante à savoir la gouvernance des institutions. Partant de ces insuffisances, les recommandations ne pouvaient pas être suffisamment robustes pour infléchir la courbe de l’insécurité alimentaire au Burkina Faso.
Author Keywords: sécurité alimentaire, aléas climatiques, résilience, agriculture pluviale, impact, Burkina Faso.
How to Cite this Article
Idrissa Semde, Tiga Neya, Samuel Yonkeu, and Samuel Pare, “Impacts of climate risks on food security in Burkina Faso: Identification of resilience paths,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 168–177, July 2021.
