Abstract
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Local and Regional Procurement (LRP) project in Burkina Faso, Faso Riibo, is being implemented by Catholic Relief Services from 2019 to 2023. This food aid project is focused on achieving the following objectives: increase the capacity of mayors? offices, school communities, and producer groups to procure, market, deliver and store local, culturally acceptable food commodities to supplement school feeding programs in a timely and cost-effective manner through training, provision of guidance and materials, and the joint monitoring of food quality and management processes; strengthen market linkages through work with value chain actors all along the four selected commodity value chains; and improve smallholder famers? access to school feeding purchasing markets by providing training in storage and delivery, and food quality and safety standards.