Toéssin, Bam is a village in the

Rollo Department Rollo is a department or commune of Bam Province in north-western Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Rollo. According to the 1996 census the department has a total population of 25,631.Bam Province Bam is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso. It is located in Centre-Nord Region and the capital of Bam is Kongoussi. In 2019 it has a population of 473,955. It is a rural province with 420,314 of its residents living in the countryside; only 5 ...

in northern

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...

. It has a population of 1703, primarily of the Yarse ethnic group (who are assimilated with the Mossi). The village was known for community efforts to build soil and

water conservation Water conservation includes all the policies, strategies and activities to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, to protect the hydrosphere, and to meet the current and future human demand (thus avoiding water scarcity). Populati ...

initiatives in the 1990s, supported by the German PATECORE project, and hosted development workers and researchers.Batterbury, S.P.J. 1998. Local environmental management, land degradation and the ‘Gestion des Terroirs’ approach in West Africa; policies and pitfalls. Journal of International Development 10: 871‑898. http://simonbatterbury.net/pubs/batterburyjid2004.pdf Most of the central fields around the village had stone lines (diguettes) built by the villagers, designed to slow runoff from heavy rains and allowing it to infiltrate into the soil. It also has a primary school, and groundwater is pumped from a deep tube well.

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Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in the Centre-Nord Region Bam Province {{Bam-geo-stub