Designing sustainable pathways for the livestock sector: the example of Atsbi, Ethiopia and Bama, Burkina Faso

Figures & data

Figure 1. Land cover of the Atsbi Plateau in Tigray Ethiopia.

Source: (RCMRD-SERVIR Africa, 2015).

Figure 2. Land cover of the Bama, Haut-Bassin, Burkina Faso.

Source: (Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS), 2015).

Figure 3. Example of a vignette card showing the title and illustration on the front (left) and the CLEANED-R parameters on the reverse side (right).

Figure 4. Game board used in Burkina Faso. Vignette cards can be placed in the top row by participants to select their future scenario.

Figure 5. The game being played in Burkina Faso. Participants are selecting the number of bricks that they want to assign to each vignette, representing the number of animals.

Table 1. The agreed scenarios in Ethiopia.

Livestock category	Base run number	Women’s group		Men’s group
		Vignette	Number of animals	Vignette	Number of animals
Dual-purpose dairy cattle	22,000	Home grown feed basket	10,000	Commercial feed basket	8000
Dual-purpose fattening and rearing cattle	19,000	Home grown feed basket	9000	Commercial feed basket	5000
Draft cattle	10,000	Base	5000	Improved	5000
Specialized dairy cattle	500	Home grown feed basket	15,000	Home grown feed basket	12,000
Sheep	100,000	Home grown feed basket	150,000	Commercial feed basket	95,000

Figure 6. Percent change of the agreed scenario compared to the base run in Atsbi, Ethiopia (concentrate and area with planted fodder were truncated to 250% for presentational reasons).

Table 2. The agreed scenarios in Burkina Faso.

Livestock category	Base run number	Agreed scenarios
		Vignette	Number of sub-herd/animals
Transhumant sub-herds (120 animals) Long transhumance	100	base	200
Short transhumance	238		300
Dairy sub-herds (20 animals)	200	Slightly improved feed	200
Specialized dairy	1400	Improved feed	1400
Fattening cattle	55,000	Slightly improved feed	110,000
Draft animals	22,500	Improved feed	17,000

Figure 7. Percent change of the agreed scenario compared to the base run in Bama, Burkina Faso (concentrate and area with planted fodder were truncated to 400% for presentational reasons).

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Data availability

Data derived from public domain resources.

The data and codes that support the findings of this study are available in Github at https://github.com/ilri/CLEANED-R. These data were derived from the following resources available in the public domain:

Soilgrids: https://soilgrids.org.

Global Agro-Ecological Zones: https://gaez.fao.org.

Regional Center for Mapping of Ressources for Development: https://opendata.rcmrd.org.

WorldClim: https://worldclim.org/.

SRTM Data: https://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/srtmdata/.

LAI modis data: https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD15A2H.006.