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Administrative/Reporting Units

In the BF admin evolution, former AD1 “provinces” were demoted in 2001 with AD1 “regions” being inserted above them. FEWS NET does apparently have FNIDS (and shapefiles?) for current AD3. Since a major change in government in 1984, there have been three significant changes in Burkina’s administrative units. There were 30 provinces (Ad 1 level) in the 1984-1996 period. In 1997, 15 existing provinces split to form an additional 15 provinces, for a total of 45. In 2001, a new Ad1 level administrative entity called a “Region” was formed, with each of the 45 provinces being demoted to Ad 2 status, and placed under the authority of one of the 13 Ad 1 Regions. As of April 2024, and since 2001, there have been only small local issue-related changes in the boundaries of a few of the 45 provinces.  Ad3 boundaries were also present in 2001, but were not added to FEWS NET Ad 1 and Ad 2 boundaries until 2020.

Crop Reporting Units

Although the boundaries used for crop reporting do nominally align with the Ad 2 level Provinces, crop data for the 1984-1996 period are reported using the 1997 Province boundaries, in order to be consistent with a retro-active recompilation by Government of crop data from that period into the 1997 boundaries. This allow all crop data between 1984 and the present (April 2024) to be comparable with any other year in terms of yields and quantity of production.

Crop Data

Context

Dominant production system/PS codes

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