Emerging Voices in ICT and agriculture - CTA Publishing

TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE MARKET
INTELLIGENCE UNIT
Inoussa Traoré, Burkina Faso,
West Africa
I believe that the real
wealth of our nations is our
youth. We are the future!
I am from Burkina Faso, aged 25. I grew up in a
village in the Boucle du Mouhoun Region in
Burkina Faso, where I attended primary school
and part of my secondary school education. I
completed my secondary school studies at Lycée
Ouézzin Coulibaly in Bobo Dioulasso, the economic
capital of Burkina Faso.
After graduating from high school with a specialization
in mathematics, I decided to continue
my studies in economics and management at
the University of Ouagadougou. I have already
completed the first stage of graduate school,
specializing in applied macroeconomics, and am
currently working on my doctorate at the
Laboratory for Economic Policy and Analysis at
the University of Ouagadougou II.
The decision to analyse the issue of market access
for agricultural products from the perspective of
access to information is linked to my training as
an economist, and to a number of studies I carried
out using databases. Furthermore, according to
economic theory, information plays a vital role in
all market mechanisms.
In the last few years, I have also carried out a
lot of research on the role of ICT. This is why I
entered my essay for the ARDYIS contest and
ended up finalist for West Africa.
My favourite quote: My favourite quote comes
from my father, who always writes it at the end
of his letters to me: “Where there’s a will, there’s
a way (A cœur vaillant, rien d’impossible)”.
My blog: http://traoreinoussa.blogspot.com
Essay summary
Agriculture dominates daily life in much
of Burkina Faso, where 80% of people live
in rural areas. But lack of market access is one
of the major hurdles facing producers, trapping
the majority of them in subsistence farming and
preventing them from taking that crucial step
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