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The study has been conducted within the framework of the 2011–2012 Programme of Work of the Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat, in line with the priorities identified by the Club’s West African Members (ECOWAS, UEMOA and CILSS). This study also contributes to the OECD 2011–2012 Programme of Work. It could not have been completed without the leadership and the scientific contribution of Laurent Bossard, SWAC Secretariat Director.
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Looking at the world from a different viewpoint is always helpful. Not because that viewpoint might reveal a hitherto unknown reality or hidden truths, but because it can provide both points of contention and inspiration from which policies should be drawn. The Members of the Sahel and West Africa Club have given their Secretariat the task of facilitating this type of thinking on the basis of factual and independent analysis. In 2010, they requested that a regional study be conducted which would be both retrospective and prospective and which would focus on two determinants of food security: settlement and the regional market.
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The West African population is projected to double by 2050, during which time agricultural production systems will profoundly change. The WAF report highlights the main features of settlement (from a homogenised base), agriculture and food security. It also provides an analytical framework and tools to allow policies to anticipate and incorporate the coming changes. The analysis particularly focuses on population concentration and on its corollary, market development, so as to shed light on some of the regional issues ahead.
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