AMIFOB garden at Tampouy — dry-season vegetable growing by older women (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
Ouagadougou (Tampouy), Burkina Faso · Operator: AMIFOB（Amicale des forestiers du Burkina Faso、ブルキナファソ森林関係者の互助会）
Overview
At a garden in Tampouy, north-west Ouagadougou, some thirty women aged 47 to 70 grow dry-season vegetables. The site began as a nursery under a tree-planting project of AMIFOB, an association of forestry workers; the women who raised the seedlings shifted to vegetables and have held the ground for decades. One 70-year-old has worked there for 36 years.
Citizen participation
About thirty women aged 47 to 70 run the dry-season vegetable growing. They began as growers of neem and tamarind seedlings under an AMIFOB tree-planting project and switched to vegetables, staying on ever since. Water is carried by hand: roughly 150 buckets a day across the site, at least ten 20-litre buckets per woman.
Operating model
Produce is sold directly at the garden. A bed of lettuce fetches 10,000 to 15,000 CFA francs depending on the variety, and regular customers buy a week or two of vegetables at a time.
Impact
The garden has provided older women with cash income for decades. Water is the binding constraint: filling and carrying some 150 buckets a day from the well.
Land tenure
The women garden on land that came out of AMIFOB's tree-planting project; the arrangement is not published.
Crops
- レタス
- キャベツ
- トマト
- スイバの葉
- セロリ
- パセリ
- ナスの葉
- サツマイモの葉
Scale
47〜70歳の女性およそ30人が区画を持つ。最古参の女性は36年続けている。面積は公表されていない
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