In June 2016 I was 4 days in Mali. I drove from Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) by car to Sikasso. There I stayed 2 nights and looked at potato cultivation and organic mango cultivation (plantations, packaging, drying: for the German market). It is already a very poor country. The border was really palm huts and Kalashnikows. From Sikasso to Bamako, again by car, there GIZ Grünes Innovationszentrum Mali met and also flew again from there to Addis.