Dioukou SISSOKO (Ph.D)

Head of the Socio-Economic component of the AGG project For the coordination and implementation of related activities under this strand. The socio-economic component carries out activities relating to (i) the determination according to the gender of preferences and preference criteria for maize varieties by maize growers in the project intervention area; (ii) monitoring and evaluation of Project activities.

** Country coordinator of BBEST Project in Mali. ** Dioukou Sissoko coordinates the research activities of this project in collaboration with other researchers and partners involved. The activities carried out relate to:

• Production of BSF training materials related to organic, poultry, and fish feed value chains.
• Identification and development of a database of local BSF agripreneurs involved in BSF value chains.
• Incubation and support of youth interested in BSF-based products (creating demand for BSF-based products) Leader of Component 1 (Workstream 1) of the CSAT project Component A of the project, with its 4 work components, is materialized in the field through component 1 or workstream 1, which is the crucible of the other 3 components as well as component B in the field. As the1st responsible for this component, we have created partnerships with other actors and set up innovation platforms that will bring together all stakeholders. This component serves as a substrate for all the other axes of the 2 components.