In Burkina Faso, meat management has significant growth potential and could be engaged to enhance population resilience strategies. However, this sector encounters difficulties linked to the lack of knowledge about proper and safe meat management technologies among stakeholders. This LCD project aims to encourage researchers, private partners and othe value chain actors to adopt and disseminate the technology of solar meat drying. The project is structured around two specific objectives centered on the development of training manuals and training of researchers and value chain actors. Spefically, the LCD project aims to train researchers, students and value chain actors on solar drying and dried meat preservation technologies and the updating of food technology courses for master's and undergraduate students at the Joseph University KI-ZERBO (UJKZ). The development and validation of the manual will be carried out on the basis of data from the experiments of the LSIL Focus project titled “”. The training-of-trainers (TOT) approach will make it possible to build the capacities of a wide range of stakeholders and researchers. The technology of solar drying of meat, the microbiological and organoleptic characteristics of the product of drying and its conservation constitute valuable elements to enrich the food technology course at UJKZ. Raising awareness and training of value chain actors will be carried out during different workshops. A symposium on drying technology will be planned at the end of the project with the participation of various stakeholders and value chain actors. The main outcome of this project will be to initiate the development of communication and partnership mechanism between those involved in technology development and those involved in its adoption. The project’s LCD approach is based on LSIL’s Local Capacity Development (LCD) initiatives and USAID priorities and principles of local capacity strengthening that would benefit the dissemination, sustainability, viability and adoption of technology transfer.

Projet au démarrage

INERA, IRSAT, UTS, UF