This research work aims to study the perceptions of
pastoralists and agro- pastoralists
on climate change impacts on mobile herding and the effectiveness of herders’ adaptive strategies
within Kompienga Province, south-eastern region of Burkina Faso. In order to
achieve this aim, survey data were retrieved from 271 respondents and analysed.
From respondents’ perceptions, climate change is real and is negatively
affecting forage availability (in quality and quantity); livestock production
and reproduction performances; herders’ practices, their livelihoods and the
cohabitation of herding and crop farming. To overcome the increasing
constraints the pastoral herding is facing, sound and urgent actions need to be
undertaken by Burkina Faso government. These actions include: 1) providing the grazing reserves with necessary
facilities such as perennial reservoirs; 2)
conducting research to improve breeds that would adapt to current climatic
conditions; 3)
encouraging and supporting gradual shift of herders from mobile herding to the
sedentary breeding; 4)
supporting and organizing forage production by farmers. At short term an
effective cross-border framework could be created to seek for sound solutions
to secure the mobility of herds within ECOWAS territory.
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