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Transcript of Regional Trade and Food Security
Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (SWAC/OECD)
West African Futures: settlement, market and food security
by T. Allen, October 2011
www.oecd.org/swac/waf
Regional Trade and Food Security
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Markets have come to play an essential role
with changes in settlement patterns:
• Increasing ratio between urban and rural
populations;
• Growing proportion of non-producers in
agriculture.
Markets and food supply
2
Markets have come to play an essential role
with changes in settlement patterns:
• Increasing ratio between urban and rural
populations;
• Growing proportion of non-producers in
agriculture.
Markets must be viewed from a regional
perspective.
Markets and food supply
3
Food balance sheets
10
Production
- [Exports- Imports]
- Changes in stocks
= Domestic Supply
- Livestock feed
- Seeds
- Losses, etc.
All utilisations other than
human consumption
Food balance sheets
11
= Food Supply
(available for human consumption)
Production
- [Exports- Imports]
- Changes in stocks
= Domestic Supply
- Livestock feed
- Seeds
- Losses, etc.
All utilisations other than
human consumption
Food balance sheets
12
= Food Supply
(available for human consumption)
Production
- [Exports- Imports]
- Changes in stocks
= Domestic Food Supply
- Livestock feed
- Seeds
- Losses, etc.
All utilisations other than
human consumption
Informal nature of much of this trade
Food supply and consumption
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Burkina Faso is known to be a major producer:
- Sorghum
- Millet
- Maize