INERA - The Institute of Environment and Agricultural Research is the national research institute of Burkina Faso responsible for generating knowledge and technological innovations to improve plant, animal, forest, wildlife and fisheries production, and to promote the protection, the safeguarding and the rational management of natural resources and the rural space. The project SustainSahel with the overall objective to enhance the resilience and intensification potential of smallholder agricultural farming systems to climate change through scalable innovations on crop-shrub-livestock (CSL) integration is in line with the prerogatives of INERA.
The project team at INERA works mainly on Work Package 4: Shrub based farming systems design and also contributes to Work Package 2: Co-innovation and capacity development, as well as the others. The INERA team is composed as followed:
- Dr Hadja Oumou SANON: researcher in fodder production and use, livestock production systems, integration of plant and animal production. She is involved in WP6, as co-lead with Prof Eva Schlecht from University of Kassel.
- Dr. Barthelemy YÉLÉMOU: researcher in the field of plant biodiversity and resilience to climate change, productivity of production systems, agroecology and environment. He works in WP4 and WP5.
- Dr. Lucien OUÉDRAOGO: researcher, working in the field of geographic information systems and remote sensing. He contributes in WP7 by supervising a MSc student.
- Mr Samuel NEYA: researcher, works in the field of ruminants feeding and milk production. He is in charge of INERA's studies and monitoring-evaluation service. He is involved in WP 8.
- Dr Sidonie OUOBA/IMA: works as a rural sociologist in the Department of Animals Productions of INERA. She has experience and interested in good agricultural and pastoral practices in Burkina Faso with a focus on gender. She specializes in agricultural value chain studies and the networking or contracting of actors in innovation platform. She is involved in WP2.
- Dr Ferdinand OBULBIGA: is fodder crop specialist. He works on fodder crops and dual purposes crop interventions, integration of cop-livestock production. He is involved in WP4.
- Dr Sita SANOU: specialized in animal feeding and nutrition. She is also interested in the aspects of greenhouse gas production in livestock breeding and works in WP6.
In collaboration with the project partners in Burkina Faso (UNB, CPF), INERA has been appointed to chair the group in 2021, thus serving as a relay with the project coordination team. In addition, three PhD students are working in the project, in addition to two engineer and master students.
In Work package 2, INERA participates in the various meetings utilising participatory action research method in selection process of the project study sites. Working also with CPF and AFASS for the implementation of Innovation Platforms.
In Work package 4, INERA is the main contributor in Burkina Faso and works in collaboration with Nazi Boni University on aspects of cropping systems and trees, as well as soil fertility. Similarly in Work package 5, INERA participates in the evaluation of soil fertility parameters under cropping systems integrated with trees. For Work Package 6, INERA is co-lead with the University of Kassel, so is actively involved in this work package. The work on ethnobotanical surveys on woody fodder in the sites of Yilou and Saria; studies of feed preferences for ligneous fodder by sheep on the station and the digestibility of a few species. The feeding rations with tree foliage for on-farm testing and evaluation of effects of woody fodder on gastrointestinal parasites are planned for this year 2022.
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