Summary table

Country Context

Administrative/Reporting Units

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Since 2001, there have been only small local issue-related changes in the boundaries of a few of the 45 provinces. In 2020, FEWS NET added Admin 3 boundaries (communes), though they were present in the country before then.

Crop Data

Crop Reporting Units

Although the The boundaries used for crop reporting do nominally align with the Ad Admin 2 level Provinces, crop data for the provinces

1984-1996 period crop data are reported using the 1997 Province boundaries , in order to be consistent with a retro-active retroactive recompilation by Government of crop data from that period into the 1997 boundariesthe Government. This allows 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

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Year and season definition

Rainy season: The main rainy season varies by latitude, beginning earlier and ending later in the South than in the North. The start of the main rains comes as early as the beginning of April. Harvesting is generally completed by the end of October.

Dry season: Off-season irrigated crops, mainly garden vegetables and sometimes rice, are undertaken in some areas with water resources and comprise some part of the “irrigated” crop production reported in the official statistics.

Dominant production system

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(PS) codes

The original source data are reported in multiple, non-overlapping production systems that were not previously captured, leading to the use of the Dominant Production System Production System (PS) codes below.

As context, most Most crops are grown during the main rainy - season by small-holders smallholders with few resources.  Over Over the last 20 twenty years, Burkina Faso has expanded the number of small water retention dams, leading to an increase in small-holder smallholder irrigated production.

• Plaine/Bas-fond irrigated (PS): In BF Burkina Faso there has been extensive development of “plaines” (irrigated fields with bunding) and “bas-fonds amenagés” (irrigated bas-fonds, or low-lying areas that may fill during the rains, and which are irrigated using that rainwater, or other drawn from a near-by source, and not necessarily just rain-fed).  Some Cooperative groupings manage some of these areas are managed by cooperative groupings, and others may be small-scale commercial in nature. Some of these may be growing veggies and other crops outside of the rainy season, although not reported.

• Bas-fonds rainfed (PS): There is another Another more - common bas-fonds farming system that is only fed by rainfall and is not irrigated or managed (amenagé) in the same way. 

• Rainfed (PS): this This category covers everything else that is grown in fields, often dispersed and planted with multiple crops,   during the rainy season without irrigation and with few resources.

Season dates

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• resources

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Season dates in the FDW now are wrong. They are corrected in this spreadsheet. See the “Season” tab in the spreadsheet describing correct seasons and dates (not all of which are used here in these data).

Crop codes

Some previous crop codes (eg cowpeas) were updated to more current codes, and 3 new crops (using existing FDW CPCV2 codes) are added.

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Methodology

Superficie de la parcelle : C’est la superficie physique des parcelles occupée par les cultures sans distinction de densité de culture. Superficie en pure : C’est la superficie physique des parcelles où il n’existe qu’une seule culture. Superficie en principale : C’est la superficie physique des parcelles où il y a au moins deux (02) cultures, et la culture considérée est la plus dominante en nombre de pieds. Superficie en secondaire : C’est la superficie physique des parcelles où il existe au moins deux (02) cultures, et la culture considérée est la moins dominante en terme de nombre de pieds.

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