Comparaison de l’impact de l’approche ? cash+ ? et de la distribution d’intrants en appui à l’élevage par des populations vulnérables au Burkina Faso

摘要

The food crises in Burkina Faso have affected millions of people. They have eroded the livelihoods of vulnerable populations, making it difficult to meet their food needs. This deterioration may be linked to declining agricultural production and inadequate incomes. To remedy this situation, a project to rehabilitate the productive means of agro-pastoralist populations was implemented by FAO from 2013 to 2014 and tested the "Cash +" approach, linking a monetary transfer and the distribution of productive inputs, compared to a traditional input distribution (input approach) with kits of the same value for the breeding of poultry (traditional chickens) or goats. The project provided four kits (kit "Cash + goats", kit "goats", kit "Cash + chicken" and kit "chicken"), to 2,000 poor and very poor households in 8 communes (Kaya, Barsalogo, Pissila, Mané, Namissiguima, Pibaoré, Korsimoro and Dablo), from the Province of Sanmatenga, Central North Region. To evaluate the impact of the interventions, 3 socio-economic studies were carried out one year apart during the project. In the second year of the project, poultry raising provided better remuneration than goat raising, but it also allowed a strong growth in the value of the herd and consequently an improvement in household resilience. "Very poor" households with very modest incomes in the first year managed to improve their income more than the "poor". The "Very poor" generally appear to benefit more sensibly from the gains of the kits received than the "Poor" ones, even for durable goods (plows, carts, bicycles), which shows well the relevance of these aids for the most deprived.