ENEA Atlas for development cooperation
Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Projects
Purchasing networks for food security with the support of diaspora Burkinabé of italy R.A.S.A.D.
For achieving the objectives:
Recipient country:
Burkina Faso
Period:2017-2020
Description
ENEA is partner in the project by the NGO TAMAT, funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) through the call for applications to support Civil Society Organisations, with the support of Diaspora Burkinabé of Italy through R.A.S.A.D. Association. The project provides for the enhanced security of population in the marginal urban areas of Burkina Faso, ensuring access to, availability and quality of food to the most vulnerable categories and promoting both actions supporting local small farmers and the development of family farming.
ENEA Activities:
Research and development of enhancing techniques and fine-tuning of best practices for phytosanitary defence and fertilization of soil under biological farming schemes, following the Nexus water-food-energy approach
Sectors
311 - Agriculture
31191 - Agricultural services
31191 - Agricultural services
SDGs Target
2.4 Ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality