Evaluation of the regulatory framework for pastoralism and cross border transhumance in West Africa and the Sahel

i) The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is a pioneer in establishing regulations for the exercise of cross-border transhumance, a somewhat controversial livestock production system in relation to its economic, social and environmental impacts, and the conflicts of access to natural resources that are sometimes associated with it.
ii) Since 1998, ECOWAS has been experimenting with a set of legal and technical instruments to provide a framework for the exercise of this multi-functional credited activity, which makes it a powerful means of strengthening the resilience of populations in general, and pastoralist and herder households in particular, on the one hand, and promoting social and regional integration in West Africa, on the other.

CEDEAO    

PEPISAO    

AFD    

African Union    

GIZ    

CILSS    

Joint Venture IRAM, ISSALA, LARES    

Regulatory framework    

Pastoralism    

Transhumance    

West Africa    

Sahel    

Mobile farming systems    

Cross-border transhumance    

Africa    

fre Pastoralisme et transhumance    

August 2020

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BIBLIOTHEQUE    

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