1. Increasing the added value of local products for urban markets: the experience of the FEPAB
Omar OUEDRAOGO

2. THE FEPAB AND ITS ACTION
The FEPAB: a network of 27 member unions, 6,131 groupings and 241,261 individual members since 1997 (see
Actions: production, processing and marketing of maize, cowpea and Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFP)
Partners: EU, AFD, ARA, Dutch Cooperation, WFP and the state of Burkina Faso…

3. THE FEPAB AND ITS ACTION
Improvement of the quality and the promotion of maize for the purchase and usage of post- harvest equipment (shellers, cleaners and sacks…)
Artisanal and semi-industrial processing of maize into flour and meal

4. THE FEPAB AND ITS ACTION
Processing of cowpea (biscuits, cakes) to take into account the issue of nutrition in an urban environment
Processing of NWFP to protect natural resources

5. METHODS USED TO SUPPLY URBAN MARKETS
Consumers
Retail sales
FEPAB STOCKS
(Network of 49 shops with a capacity of more than 12,000 tonnes
Provision of national stocks to ensure food safety
Institutional sales
Wholesale
Traders
Large factories (mills and breweries)

6. REASONS TO BE SATISFIED
Gradual penetration of the urban markers previously dominated by imports (wheat, rice, pasta) thereby contributing to food sovereignty
Increasingly secure market with the private sector
The quality of our products helps to attract consumers
More than 262 million earned in 2015
Employment of young people and women in the rural and urban environments

7. DIFFICULTIES BUT ALSO PROSPECTS
Major difficulties
Experimental solutions
Prospects
High cost of post-harvest equipment and processing units
Sharing of post-harvesting equipment
Usage of artisanal units, which does have certain consequences
Partnerships with a view to the acquisition of more equipment and semi-industrial units
Marketing weaknesses (metrology, packaging, local sales…)
Marketing training
Expand marketing capacity

8. DIFFICULTIES BUT ALSO PROSPECTS
Major difficulties
Experimental solutions
Prospects
Lack of financing for actions upstream and downstream of the chain
Usage of micro-finance
Discussions with commercial banks and advocacy in favour of the creation of an agricultural bank
Problems related to storage infrastructures and poor state of road infrastructures
Storage in traditional granaries in the hope that traditional warehouses will be built
Advocacy in favour of the development of storage, transport and market infrastructures
Sale of surplus
Obstacles to trade in cereals in West Africa
Exploration of the potential of the sub-regional market (Niger, Ghana, Mali)
Advocacy for the free movement of goods and people
Taking part in ECOWAS calls for tender

9. Thank you for your kind attention