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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in the centre of West Africa. Most people living here depend on the land to grow food and make money. But land is rapidly losing its fertility and trees are being cut down. As a result, nearly two-thirds of the population are living in extreme poverty.

That’s why Tree Aid has been working with communities across the country since 1994. 

  • 0

    hectares of tree cover lost between 2000 and 2020

    (Global Forest Watch, 2022)

  • 0

    percent of people live in poverty

    (UNDP 2021)

  • 0

    million people face food insecurity

    (UN World Food Programmme, 2024)

Our projects

Throughout 2023 and 2024, we've seen really encouraging impacts from across all of our projects in Burkina Faso. We joined forces with 514 new enterprise groups, supported 1,601,708 people, grew 1,266,654 trees, and restored 398 hectares of land.

Find out more about our projects, past and present, in Burkina Faso.  

New

Tond Tenga

In Progress

Growing resilience with smallholder farmers

Two forest guards smiling in front of a forest.
Completed

Protecting forests - Forest Governance phase II

A woman in the Sahel walking through a tree planting nursery
Completed

Growing food and incomes from forest products - phase two

Completed

Growing food and incomes from forest products

Forest guards walking in a line into the forest.
Completed

Protecting forests - Forest Governance phase I

Women in the distance walking through their village.
Completed

Restoring land with Dryland Development

Meet Burkina Faso's forest guards

Our Forest Governance projects in Burkina Faso are helping to reduce the risk of wildfires by training local volunteers in preventative methods

Protecting Burkina Faso's forests from wildfires

MEET THE PEOPLE WE WORK WITH IN BURKINA FASO

MEET MOUMOUNI

MEET DOLI

MEET ALIZETA