Burkina Faso: Anticipating the Immediate Consequences of Conflict on Agricultural Livelihoods and Food Security

Jun 8, 2021 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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In the Liptako Gourma cross-border areas of Burkina Faso,** Mali** and the Niger, the number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity (CH Phase 3+) increased from about 1 million to 4.4 million between 2015 and 2020. This complex crisis is driven by increased insecurity and communal violence, exacerbated by growing competition over resources, climatic variability and lack of income opportunities. As a result, forced displacement across the Sahel has quadrupled in just two years, from 490 000 people to about 2 million - mostly concentrated in Burkina Faso -- and the situation is expected to worsen further by July 2021.