Agriculture

Burkina Faso is advancing its national food security strategy by training and mobilizing a specialized agricultural youth corps. A second cohort of 3,013 young “Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland” (VDP), including 515 women, has completed civic and patriotic training and is now poised for agricultural specialization. This initiative uniquely integrates national service with food self-sufficiency, aiming to deploy a disciplined, motivated workforce directly into the agricultural sector. The program represents a strategic, security-linked approachContinue Reading