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Sustainable bioenergies for small agri-food companies in rural West Africa (BIOSTAR)

Last update: 27 February 2023

One of the nine DeSIRA projects involved in DISSEM-INN, the BIOSTAR project focuses on bioenergies.

The DeSIRA initiative
Launched at the One Planet Summit in Paris in 2017, the “Development Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA)” initiative is supported by European Commission’s Directorate for International Partnerships (DG INTPA). By funding more than sixty projects worldwide, this program aims to promote innovation in agriculture and transformation of partner countries’ agri-food systems to make them more resilient to the effects of climate change. Through the original concept of “action-research” for a “development smart innovation”, it seeks to promote a science in partnership that meet development challenges.

Description

The aim of the BIOSTAR project is to improve the energy supply to agri-food processing small and medium-sized entreprises (SMEs) in the Sahel countries through bionergy. The objective is to set up bioenergy production units in agri-food SMEs using their organic residues. In collaboration with local inter-professional organisations, SMEs with the capacity to innovate and representative of the sector will be selected in order to work with them to define their energy needs and to find solutions for a sustainable supply of residues. A training programme will also be implemented to develop the bioenergy sector in Sahelian Africa, with in particular the involvement of local, national and sub-regional policy-makers. The goal of this approach is to establish a policy framework that is more conducive to this developement in rural territories.

Countries concerned

Senegal, Burkina Faso

Length

2020 - 2024

Actors involved

  • Coordinator: CIRAD (UPR BioWooEB)
  • Partners: 2iE, IRSAT, UTS, ISRA, UGB, Nitidae, UCL, UHOH and University Roma 3
  • Funding: DeSIRA initiative (DG INTPA/UE), AFD

Last update: 27 February 2023