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Comparative Study
. 2012 Oct;44(7):1631-42.
doi: 10.1007/s11250-012-0118-0. Epub 2012 Mar 20.

A comparison between urban livestock production strategies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria in West Africa

Hamadoun Amadou  1 , Luc Hippolyte Dossa, Désiré Jean-Pascal Lompo, Aisha Abdulkadir, Eva Schlecht
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Comparative Study

A comparison between urban livestock production strategies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria in West Africa

Hamadoun Amadou et al. Trop Anim Health Prod. 2012 Oct.

Abstract

We undertook a comparative analysis of (peri-)urban livestock production strategies across three West African cities. Using a semi-structured questionnaire, livestock-keeping households (HH) were interviewed in Kano/Nigeria (84 HH), Bobo Dioulasso/Burkina Faso (63 HH) and Sikasso/Mali (63 HH). Questions covered livestock species kept, herd sizes and structure, feeds used, manure management, livestock marketing and production constraints. Sheep and goats dominated (p < 0.001) in Kano (76 and 75 % of HH) compared to Bobo Dioulasso (48 and 40 %) and Sikasso (28 and 40 %), while cattle and poultry were more frequent (p < 0.001) in Bobo Dioulasso (82 and 69 % of HH) and Sikasso (65 and 79 %) than in Kano (29 and 20 %). Across cities, ruminant feeding relied on grazing and homestead supplementation with fresh grasses, crop residues, cereal brans and cottonseed cake; cereal grains and brans were major ingredients of poultry feeds. Cattle and sheep fetched highest prices in Kano, unit prices for goats and chicken were highest in Sikasso. Across cities there was little association of gardens and livestock, whereas field cropping and livestock were integrated. There was no relation between the education of the HH head and the adoption of improved management practices (p > 0.05), but the proportion of HH heads with a long-term experience in UPA activities was higher in Kano and in Bobo Dioulasso than in Sikasso (p < 0.001). We therefore postulate that the high illiteracy rate among (peri-)urban livestock keepers in West Africa does not threaten the acceptance of improved technologies and innovations supporting the sustainability of their livestock production.

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Fig. 1
Number of cattle-keeping households offering different types of purchased or produced feed in the dry season (above) and rainy season (below) in the West African cities of Kano (Nigeria), Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) and Sikasso (Mali)
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Fig. 2
Number of small ruminant keeping households offering different types of purchased or self-produced feed in the dry season (above) and rainy season (below) in the West African cities of Kano (Nigeria), Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) and Sikasso (Mali)
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Fig. 3
Average (2006–2007; n = 279) sales prices of different livestock species in the West African cities of Kano (Nigeria), Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) and Sikasso (Mali)
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