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This chapter focuses on the socio-economic background of the landlocked West African country Burkina Faso, formerly called Republic of Upper Volta. It is geographically situated in the Sahel--the agricultural region between the Sahara Desert and the coastal rain forests--and has a size of 274000 km2 (75% the size of Germany). With 17,8 million inhabitants (CIA – The World Fact Book, Population: 2013a), of whom 43.9 % live below the poverty line, Burkina Faso is classified both as a least developed country and a low-income, food-deficit country (Auswärtiges Amt, 2013: 1st break).
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Richter, J. (2016). FGM in Burkina Faso. In: Human Rights Education Through Ciné Débat. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12723-7_3
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