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Title: Contribution of non-timber forest products to food security of households bordering the Pô-Nazinga-Sissili ecological complex in Burkina Faso

Authors: Soumaïla Sawadogo

Addresses: Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Documentation and Research (CEDRES), Thomas Sankara University, 03 BP 7210 Ouagadougou 03; Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Laboratory of Economics and Rural Development (LED), Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech. – University of Liège, Belgium

Abstract: The current paper analyses the contribution of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) to households' food security bordering the complex Pô-Nazinga-Sissili, a protected area in south Burkina Faso. Using primary data from a sample of 263 randomly selected households, two food security indicators, the Household Dietary Diversity Score and the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale, were calculated. Binary logistic regression and ordered multinomial logistic regression of these respective indicators on the socioeconomic characteristics of households, with a particular focus on economic dependence on NTFPs, have shown that NTFPs are means to improve household food security. It would be more appropriate for NTFPs to be deeply incorporated into public food security policies, especially in rural areas.

Keywords: forest products; non-timber forest products; NTFPs; food security; forest dependence; logit models; Pô-Nazinga-Sissili; PONASI; Burkina Faso.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEPEE.2023.131060

International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, 2023 Vol.17 No.3, pp.420 - 443

Received: 02 Sep 2022
Accepted: 26 Dec 2022
Published online: 22 May 2023 *