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Livestock Mobility in West Africa and Sahel and Transboundary Animal Diseases

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Human and animal mobility—especially ruminants for the latter—is a key factor in the Sahelian region. Animals are kept mobile to look for better grazing areas and water resources, to be sold at international markets and to escape insecure areas. The demographic growth of the western African coastal countries (and northern Africa for eastern Sahel) is changing the mobility pattern in the area. Old and new problems are faced by pastoralists and traders. As it is, mobility is a complex phenomenon.

Here we describe livestock mobility in the region, showing some of the benefits and challenges that it faces nowadays. In West Africa, mobility is a complex pheno menon. It involves different spatial (from few kilometres to international journeys) and temporal (movements can take few days till several months) scales and it is contributing to local and regional economy in different ways: through livestock trades and the creation of jobs around the commercial circuits.

A major issue is the scarcity of available data. In the absence of a centralised system, volumes of traded animal are mostly guessed: quantitative information is rarely available. A clearer and more quantitative knowledge of the livestock mobility network could greatly help veterinary officers to improve control and surveillance of animal diseases. In this chapter, we focus on the movements of cattle and small ruminants.

In loving memory of Caroline Coste who passed away during the writing of this chapter.

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This work was partially funded by INRA grant Meta-programme GISA AMI 2017 and EU grant FP7-613996 VMERGE and is catalogued by the VMERGE Steering Committee as VMERGE000 (http://www.vmerge.eu). The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and don’t necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.

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  1. CIRAD, UMR ASTRE, Montpellier, France

    Andrea Apolloni

  2. ISRA, Laboratoire National Elevage et Recherche Vétérinaire (LNERV), Dakar, Sénégal

    Andrea Apolloni, Christian Corniaux & Ibra Touré

  3. UMR SELMET Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, France

    Christian Corniaux & Ibra Touré

  4. UMR ASTRE, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

    Caroline Coste & Renaud Lancelot

  5. ASTRE, Montpellier University, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier, France

    Caroline Coste & Renaud Lancelot

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Apolloni, A., Corniaux, C., Coste, C., Lancelot, R., Touré, I. (2019). Livestock Mobility in West Africa and Sahel and Transboundary Animal Diseases. In: Kardjadj, M., Diallo, A., Lancelot, R. (eds) Transboundary Animal Diseases in Sahelian Africa and Connected Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25385-1_3

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