Sustainable utilizations of Borassus aethiopum Mart. fruits in the Eastern Region of Burkina Faso

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Résumé

Borassus aethiopum Mart., Commonly called Koanga in Moore (most utilized local language in
Burkina Faso), is a palmyra tree which is very widespread in India and Africa. In Burkina Faso,
it is located in the Eastern region of the country, where it is used in various ways (medicinal,
constructions, culinary…). Populations of Kompienga (Province of Eastern part of Burkina Faso)
use mainly the hypocotyls of the young trees in their daily food rations, but also as an
economical income through the trade of those hypocotyls. This study is finding out sustainable
ways to avoid the destruction of the Borassus forest in the locality, but also, it is proposing
means to add more values in the use of the fruit without touching the hypocotyls only. For the
purpose we used physical, ethnobotanical and chemicals methods.

Mots-clés

Borassus aethiopum Mart, fruits, hypocotyls, ethnobotany, sustainability, conservation