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Deal #5700 Version #73342
Burkina Faso
Created at
2017-10-09
Last update
2021-05-25
Last full update
2021-05-25
Former land owner (not by constitution)
Former land owner
Private (smallholders), Community
Comment on former land owner
Several major landowners own the bulk of the land, however, numerous subsistence farmers rent portions of the land from the landowners.
Former land use
Former land use
Smallholder agriculture
Comment on former land use
The agriculture includes crop cultivation and livestock farming. The main crops produced are cereal (maize, millet and sorghum), oilseed (sesame, groundnut and cowpea) and cotton crops. The livestock includes goats, sheep, cattle and poultry. The local communities also have fruit trees (mango, orange, lemon, papaya, guava and banana) and use leaves, bark and wood of trees, such as shea and African locust bean trees.