Last update: August 15, 2024
This page contains information about some of the data available in the FEWS NET Data Explorer (FDE) for Burkina Faso. This is not a comprehensive guide.
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Summary table
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 |
Country food security context
Statistical reporting units
Burkina Faso usually uses administrative units as their statistical reporting units.
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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. |
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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
Explore our crop data.
View our documentation on using the Crop Domain.
Crop estimate data sources
A key source of Burkina Faso crop data is the Conseil national de la statistique (CNS), source of most of the crop data found in the FEWS NET Data Warehouse. See also the l’Institut national de la statistique et de la démographie (INSD) website for other agricultural data and information. Regional statistical yearbooks available from the CNS provide additional important crop information and data at regional and provincial levels.
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Plaine/Bas-fond irrigated (PS): In 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). Cooperative Cooperative groupings manage some of these areas, and others may be small-scale commercial in nature. Some of these may be growing vegetables and other crops outside of the rainy season, although not reported as such.
Bas-fonds rainfed (PS): Another more common bas-fonds farming system is only fed by rainfall and is not irrigated or managed (amenagé) in the same way.
Rainfed (PS): This category covers everything else grown in fields, often dispersed and planted with multiple crops, during the rainy season without irrigation and with few resources.
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Crop estimation methodology
The following description of the crop estimation methodology employed in Burkina Faso was extracted from a report entitled “Resultats Définitifs Définitifs de la Campagne Agricole 2014/2015 et Perspectives de la Situation Alimentaire et Nutritionnelle” (page 60), published by Secretary the General Secretariat, Direction Générale Générale des Etudes et des Statistiques Sectorielles (DGESS). Given its age, it may not exactly represent current practice, but rather a view of how earlier estimations were undertaken.
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