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Nassa Sylvain
Age: 52
Home: Nassoulou, Burkina Faso
Eking out a living in Burkina Faso in West Africa has never been easy. But when the rains began failing Nassa just couldn't grow enough food for the family.
Filed in: Africa, Trade

Burkina Faso background:

Current president Blaise Compaore took power by force in 1987and introduced multi party politics
Third poorest country in the world - few natural resources and frequent droughts
Cotton, the main industry, is a volatile foreign exchange earner vulnerable to world price changes
Civil war in neighbouring Ivory Coast has forced hundreds of thousands of Burkinabe migrant workers to return home, putting further pressure on the economy

Filed in: Africa, Trade

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso
population: 12.4 million
(90% farmers)
arable land: 12%
life expectancy: 47.5