Category: Surveillance

Mauritanie

Mauritania Pastoral Surveillance Bulletin – October-November 2022

  • Massive arrivals of transhumant herds reported in the Bousta area of ​​Hodh El Chargui from Mali
  • Sufficient availability of pasture and good watering conditions for livestock
  • Good condition, animals are overweight 
  • Large number of bushfire cases recorded
  • Goat/millet terms of trade unfavorable to breeders
  • Suspected cases of vitamin deficiency and animal diseases such as botulism, foot-and-mouth disease, enterotoxemia, cowpox, rabies and cases of plague in small ruminants (PPR)

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Publications

Pastoral Monitoring Bulletin for Niger – October-November 2022

  • Pasture resources generally satisfactory at the end of the year 
  • Satisfactory water resources with the filling of surface water points  
  • Massive and early movements of herds towards areas less affected by insecurity  
  • Animals’ overall condition is satisfactory on the majority of sites 
  • Persistence of animal theft and insecurity in pastoral areas followed by the regions of Tillabéry, Tahoua, Maradi, Diffa and Agadez 
  • Relative increase in goat and sheep prices on monitored markets 
  • Significant rise in grain prices 
  • Terms of trade for grain for goats unfavorable to breeders

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Publications

Pastoral Surveillance Bulletin for Burkina Faso – October-November 2022

  • Good pastoral campaign
  • Good condition of animals
  • Very sufficient availability of water and pasture resources
  • Increase in prices of small ruminants
  • Falling grain prices
  • Unfavorable terms of trade for livestock farmers despite falling grain prices
  • in the different observation sites
  • Worrying security situation with armed attacks, thefts and animal kidnappings
  • Forced displacement of herders in certain areas

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Mauritanie

Mauritania Pastoral Surveillance Bulletin – August-September 2022

  • Disponibilité suffisante en pâturages
  • Bonnes conditions d’abreuvement du cheptel
  • État d’embonpoint des animaux globalement très bon 
  • Prix des animaux en hausse
  • Baisse du prix de l’aliment de bétail
  • Fort recours des ménages à la vente de femelles de réforme en cette période en raison de leur bon état d’embonpoint
  • Confirmation des cas de fièvre de la vallée du rift FVR au niveau des Wilayas du Brakna, Guidimakha et Hodh El Chargui
  • Suspicion de cas d’avitaminoses et des pathologies animales telles que le botulisme, la fièvre aphteuse, de dermatose nodulaire, enteroxemie, la variole bovine et de cas boiteries chez les petits ruminants

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Biomasse

Analysis report on biomass production in 2022 in the Sahel

  • Very good rainy season in the Sahelian zone of West Africa
  • Above normal biomass production in most of the Sahelian zone
  • Very good biomass production in the western block composed of central and southern Senegal, southern Mauritania, central and southern Mali and Burkina Faso
  • Good biomass production in Chad, except in the south of the country
  • Low to very low production in the Central Sahel, particularly in south-west Niger
  • Below average biomass production in coastal countries, particularly in Nigeria
  • Security context strongly hindering herds mobility and access to pasture and water resources in the Central Sahel, in addition to restrictions on mobility to coastal countries, particularly Benin and Togo

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