Politiques de sécurisation alimentaire au Burkina Faso et participation des femmes à la production du riz : le cas de la commune rurale de Douna

Abstract

Burkina Faso is developing lowlands in rural areas for rice production. These developments induce changes in the rice production system. The objective of this work is to show the changes in norms and facts that the dissemination of certified seeds within the framework of the legal seed system generates in farms. Survey work was carried out between January 2018 and July 2021 in the rural municipality of Douna. The main results show that the development policy leads to changes in land use and a land redistribution of plots to the detriment of women. Indeed, these dynamics that modernize the sector tend to exclude women. It is the international injunctions in favor of the defense of women's rights that manage to maintain them in the production of rice in developed areas. We are thus witnessing varietal replacements with the decline of old varieties and a masculinization of seed systems. In view of the particularity and value associated with African red rice, called pèrè in the local language, in Douna, the «slow food sentinel» is very interested in it. Through this study, we show that rice, moving from undeveloped lowlands to developed areas, goes from a marginal production largely dominated and controlled by women to a major production in the male-dominated agrosystem.

Keywords

• Burkina Faso
• Douna
• Women
• Agricultural policies
• Food security
• Undeveloped lowlands