PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF 2002 CEREAL PRODUCTION IN WESTERN AFRICA - December 2002
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This report presents a preliminary assessment of the 2002 cereal harvests in the nine west African countries which are members of CILSS1/. It is based on information available to FAO's Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) as of early November 2002 and on production estimates provided by the national services and reviewed by Crop Assessment Missions to all nine CILSS countries in October. These Missions comprised experts from GIEWS and the CILSS/Agrhymet Centre in Niamey. FEWS (Fam ine Early Warning System) Programme of USAID and World Food Programme (WFP) were also associated with some of these Missions. The Missions worked closely with the national agricultural statistics services responsible for collecting and processing cereal production data, meteorological information, crop protection, hydrology and, where they exist, national early warning systems (SAP), market information systems (SIM) and food security monitoring systems (CT-CCI in Burkina Faso, CASAGC in Chad, SA P-GC in Niger, etc.). The Missions also met representatives of the main donors. FAO and CILSS worked closely together, at both field and headquarters level, and the figures in the report are those generally agreed by both secretariats.