@article {652,
	title = {Soil and water conservation as a starting point for rural forestry: The OXFAM Project in Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso},
	journal = {Rural Africana},
	volume = {23-24},
	year = {1985},
	month = {Fall {\textquoteright}85-Win {\textquoteright}86},
	pages = {79-85},
	abstract = {This paper is a case study of the agroforestry program also known as the Microcatchment Project, funded by OXFAM in the Yatenga region of Burkina Faso. The area has a history of overuse of land resources leading to a decrease in the arable surface and severe degradation of the environment. Past efforts to improve the farmers{\textquoteright} situation have met largely with failure, while traditional methods of adapting were innovative but insufficient. The project, by relying on the farmers{\textquoteright} participation to develop techniques of water conservation, has shown that land degradation can be reversed and food production increased by the farmers themselves.},
	keywords = {Burkina Faso, food production, microcatchment, OXFAM, water conservation},
	author = {Peter Wright and Edouard G. Bonkoungou}
}
