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ISO 3166-1 codes | Alpha 2: BF, Alpha 3: BFA, Numeric: 854 |
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Administrative units | Regions, provinces, communes |
Agricultural seasons | Rainy (starts as early as April) and dry seasons |
Major crops | Maize, millet, sorghum |
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Administrative (admin) units are the geographical areas into which a country is divided. FEWS NET uses the following terminology: National boundary = admin 0, First sub-national division = admin 1 (e.g., states in the United States), Second sub-national division = admin 2 (e.g., counties in the United States), and so on. |
Admin 1: Regions.
Admin 2: Provinces.
Admin 3: Communes.
Since a major change in government in 1984, there have been three significant changes in Burkina’s administrative units:
1984 - 1996: There were 30 provinces (Admin 1 level).
1997: 15 existing provinces split to form an additional 15 provinces, for a total of 45.
2001: A new Admin 1 level administrative entity called a “Region” Region was formed, with each of the 45 provinces being demoted to Admin 2 status and placed under the authority of one of the 13 Regions.
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.
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The boundaries used for crop reporting nominally align with the Admin 2 level provinces.
1984-1996 crop data are reported using the 1997 Province boundaries in order to be consistent with a retroactive recompilation by the Government. This allows all crop data between 1984 and the present to be comparable with any other year in terms of yields and quantity of production.
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