Determinants Affecting the Efficient Use of Food Assistance for the Creation of Productive Assets by Internally Displaced Persons for Sustainable Empowerment in Sanmatenga Province of Burkina Faso

Abstract

In response to the consequences of the security crisis and climate change on food and nutrition security, the World Food Programme (WFP) initiated the Food Assistance for Asset Creation (FFA) program. This program aims to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities and households in the Sanmatenga province. The present study was conducted to analyze the factors influencing the efficient use of this assistance, with the goal of sustainably increasing the resilience level of vulnerable populations. Data were collected via mobile phone using the Kobocollect application from 367 beneficiaries, including both host communities and internally displaced persons, spread across ten villages in the communes of Boussouma, Korsimoro, and Ziga. The data analysis relies on descriptive statistics, and the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is used to calculate efficiency scores, along with a censored Tobit regression model to identify the explanatory factors of efficiency. The results reveal an average efficiency score of 60.83% for the vegetable garden of Foutirgui and 77.03% for the rice-growing basin of Goaragui. The analysis of efficiency determinants shows a significant influence, at the 5% level, of several variables. Thus, age, experience, literacy, training, membership in a farmers’ organization, and access to agricultural information had a positive effect on efficiency, while household size only had a negative effect. In addition to the empirical analysis variables, the adverse effect of pedoclimatic factors on the production level is also noted.