FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 01/00 - BURKINA FASO (1 February)

BURKINA FASO (1 February)

Seasonably dry conditions prevail. The 1999 aggregate cereal production has been estimated by a joint FAO/CILSS Crop Assessment Mission last October at 2 448 000 tonnes (with rice in paddy equivalent), which is 8 percent below the 1998 record but 2 percent above the last five years average. Millet and sorghum production decreased while maize and fonio production increased.

The overall food supply situation is satisfactory. Markets are well supplied and prices of local millet and sorghum are lower than previous years. However, some populations may be vulnerable following flooding or successive reduced harvests. Emergency food assistance (340 tonnes of assorted food purchased locally) is being distributed in the provinces of Boulkemdeto, Kouritenga, Passore, Poni, and Yatenga to 12 000 Burkinabe who fled since early November the area of Tebou in south-west C�te d�Ivoire following land tenure disputes in cocoa plantations. Around 4 000 have been identified as particularly vulnerable. Some of the returnees have started to return to C�te d�Ivoire.

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