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

• DOI: 10.1007/s11250-012-0118-0
• Publication Date: 2012-03-19T06:46:19Z
• Authors: Hamadoun Amadou; Luc Hippolyte Dossa; Désiré Jean-Pasca...; Aisha Abdulkadir; Eva Schlecht
• Keywords: Flock

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