Category: Surveillance

Effective installation of wintering and good development of pasture on different sites monitored
Pasture availability still insufficient
Worrying health situation of livestock
Improving access to markets
Significant increase in animal and grain prices on the markets
Growing insecurity, particularly in the Tahoua region

Pastoral Surveillance Bulletin for Burkina Faso – June-July 2024

The terms of trade for goats against millet are very unfavorable for breeders on the majority of sites monitored in the regions of Gao and Timbuktu.
Cattle kidnapping reported in Gao region
Insufficient support for the pastoral sector on the sites monitored in the northern regions
Pasture availability judged to be insufficient to very insufficient
High concentrations of animals recorded in flooded parts of the Gao and Timbuktu regions
Watering conditions considered average to poor

Start of wintering in agropastoral sites in Mauritania
Pasture deficit at pastoral monitoring sites
Water resources generally sufficient at the sites
High concentrations of livestock in strategic pastoral areas
Fair livestock condition
Increase in the price of animal feed and food products
Goat-for-sorghum terms of trade unfavorable for breeders
Calm health situation with a few cases of vitamin deficiency and peste de petits ruminants at the surviving sites
Continuing arrivals of refugees in the Wilaya of Hodh El Chargui from Mali

Harvesting cold off-season crops
Preparations for the wintering campaign
Relative calm in phytosanitary conditions in the regions of Timbuktu and Taoudenni
State of exundated pastures judged poor in Timbuktu and very poor in Taoudénni
End of the bourgou harvest with production considered good to average in the Timbuktu region
Relatively calm epizootic situation in both regions
The condition of the herds was considered fair in Timbuktu and poor in Taoudenni.
Animal watering conditions average to poor in Timbuktu and fair in Taoudenni
Increase observed in the price of rice
7,736 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Timbuktu and 8,894 in Taoudenni
60,203 people in acute food insecurity (6% of the population) in Timbuktu and 14,020 (22% of the population) in Taoudénni according to the latest report of the harmonized framework for the period from March to May 2024

The terms of trade for goats against millet are very unfavorable for breeders on the majority of sites monitored in the regions of Gao and Timbuktu.
Cattle kidnapping reported in Gao region
Insufficient support for the pastoral sector on the sites monitored in the northern regions
Pasture availability judged to be insufficient to very insufficient
High concentrations of animals recorded in flooded parts of the Gao and Timbuktu regions
Watering conditions considered average to poor