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SIG Sahel – ACF
SIG Sahel – ACF

Monitoring and Early Warning System in the Sahel

Biomasse

Biomass production analysis report for Senegal in 2024

31/10/202406/12/2024
  • Abnormal rainy season, alternating with above-average rainfall totals and dry spells in Senegal
  • Deficit biomass production across the whole of Senegal, particularly in transhumant transit and reception sites
  • Vulnerability index is neutral over a large part of the country but has improved compared to the previous year
  • Vulnerability index is positive in certain areas of the pastoral regions of the country (Saint Louis and Louga & Matam)

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Publications

Multi-sectoral surveillance bulletin on the regions of Timbuktu and Taoudenni in Mali – July-August-September 2024

30/10/202430/10/2024
  • Good rainfall
  • Late start to the agricultural campaign in certain localities
  • Increased threat of flooding of village irrigated areas due to the high flooding of the Niger River
  • Relative calm in the phytosanitary field
  • State of the dewatered pastures judged sufficient to very sufficient in Timbuktu and average to fair in Taoudenni
  • Flooding of certain bourgoutières in the Timbuktu region
  • Relatively calm epizootic situation
  • Herds are in very good condition in Timbuktu and passable in Taoudenni
  • Animal watering conditions are good in Timbuktu and passable in Taoudenni
  • Rice price increase
  • 7,129 internally displaced persons (IDPs) registered in Timbuktu and 6,204 in Taoudenni

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Biomasse

Biomass production analysis report for 2024 in Chad

29/10/202406/12/2024
  • Normal to excess rainfall across the territory
  • Average to good biomass production across the country
  • Good to very good biomass production in the Sahelian part in the regions of Barh-El-Gazel, Batha and Ouaddaï, Ennedi East and West, Hadjer Lamis, Kanem and Wadi Fira
  • Deficit biomass production recorded in the south of the country in Logone Oriental and Occidentale, a large part of Mayo Kebi East and West, Tandjilé and Mandoule 
  • Prospect of a normal and less difficult pastoral lean season in 2025 for the north, but probably early for the south
  • Complex security context in the far north and west of the country

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Biomasse

Biomass production analysis report for Mali in 2024

25/10/202406/12/2024
  • Excess rainfall over most of Mali
  • Normal to late start of the rainy season with poor distribution in time and space
  • Good biomass production in the large northern and central part of the country
  • Normal to significant deficit in biomass production in a large part of the south, center and west of the country
  • Very significant deficit in biomass production in the north of the Goundam and Timbuktu circles
  • Unfavorable security situation for breeders with cattle being kidnapped

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Publications

Pastoral Monitoring Bulletin for Niger – August-September 2024

25/10/202425/10/2024
  • Good availability of pasture,
  • Water availability very satisfactory.
  • Thousands of animals lost in floods
  • Several cases of suspected animal diseases
  • High grain prices in monitored markets
  • TDE terms of trade still unfavorable to breeders
  • Decline in cases of animal theft
  • Persistent insecurity, particularly in the regions of Tahoua, Tillabéri, Maradi and Diffa

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Biomasse

Biomass production analysis report for 2024 in Niger

25/10/202406/12/2024
  • Rainy season very favorable to the regeneration and development of pastoral resources on the Niger
  • Surplus biomass production across all pastoral areas
  • Thousands of animals lost in floods caused by heavy rains
  • Animal mobility disrupted by insecurity, particularly in the regions of Tillabéri, northwest Tahoua, south Maradi and Diffa, to which are added recurring animal thefts.
  • Difficult economic context for breeders, faced with a pastoral lean season made harder by soaring food prices

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Data downloadable here

Biomasse

Biomass production analysis report for 2024 in Mauritania

23/10/202406/12/2024
  • Normal to excess rainfall balance with extreme phenomena
  • Overall positive biomass production in Mauritania
  • Rainfall breaks in pastoral and agropastoral areas
  • Existence of some pockets of biomass production deficit in Hodh El Chargui, Brakna, Trarza and Assaba
  • Flooding in Hodh El Chargui and the southern regions (Gorgol, Guidimakha and Trarza)
  • Exposure to vulnerability in the Wilayas of Tagant, Inchiri and Dakhlet-Nouadhibou

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Publications

Pastoral Surveillance Bulletin for Burkina Faso – August-September 2024

18/10/202418/10/2024
  • Favorable grazing situation
  • Average to good livestock condition
  • Abnormal livestock movements
  • Obstruction of livestock mobility
  • Rise in the price of cereals
  • Falling livestock prices
  • Terms of trade for male goats for sorghum unfavorable for breeders

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Pastoral Surveillance Bulletin for Senegal – August-September 2024

15/10/202415/10/2024
  • Medium to high livestock concentration
  • Sufficient to very sufficient pasture resource conditions
  • Water resource conditions very sufficient to sufficient
  • Overall good condition of small and large ruminants
  • Increase in prices of animals and cereals
  • Suspicion of reported cases of illness: runny nose, distomatosis, parasitism, diarrhea, anteretoxemia, lungs
  • Terms of trade for male cattle for millet and rice still favorable to breeders

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Pastoral Surveillance Bulletin for Mali – August-September 2024

11/10/202411/10/2024
  • Pasture availability sufficient to very sufficient 
  • Average livestock concentration at most sentinel sites
  • Very sufficient water availability 
  • Goat-millet trade terms very favorable for livestock farmers in the central and southern parts of the country 
  •  Livestock theft reported at 21.21% of monitored sentinel sites 

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