Projektnummer

0057470

Zusammenfassung

In Sahelian countries such Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, transhumant pastoralism is the dominant livestock husbandry system; it involves 70-90% of the cattle and 30-40% of the goats and sheep, supplying about 65% of cattle and 40% of small ruminant meat. Since the severe droughts, this livestock system faced challenges due to climate change, increased population growth and socio economic transformations that have occurred in the region. As adaptation strategy, in Burkina Faso, most of pastoral livestock keepers have migrated and settled in the defined pastoral zones around national par...