Terravive Group has partnered with Terre Verte to design a pilot restoration programme in Burkina Faso as part of the Sahel Bridge Initiative (SBI).
Terre Verte is a French NGO operating in Burkina Faso with more than three decades of operational experience in dryland regeneration. Since 1989, it has developed and implemented local bocage (wégoubri) systems through inter-village associations. Each association operates a pilot farm that serves as a hub for structured land restoration.
The model, first developed at the Guiè Pilot Farm in the 1990s, integrates earthen dykes, hedgerows, shared infrastructure, and land consolidation mechanisms to mitigate erosion, retain water, stabilise agricultural productivity, and address structural rural land-tenure constraints. Terre Verte also co-manages, with AZN, the Centre de Formation des Aménageurs Ruraux (CFAR – École du Bocage) at the Guiè Pilot Farm, which provides multi-year technical training in land restoration, agroecology, livestock management, rural infrastructure and reforestation.
In the Burkina Faso pilot, Terre Verte serves as the designated field implementation partner, operating within the structured validation, monitoring, and capital sequencing framework established by the Sahel Bridge Iinitiative. SBI provides the governance architecture, verification framework, and capital structuring logic designed to support replication and scaling.
The pilot will implement restoration activities on the ground, track survival performance transparently, validate cost per surviving hectare, and prepare a structured pathway for larger-scale capital.
This marks the formal initiation of the pilot phase and represents an important milestone for the Sahel Bridge Initiative.
