Purchasing Power
Despite on-going harvests, the purchasing power of households continued to be hampered by continuing civil insecurity in the North and high food prices. However, pastoralists saw prices of goats and sheep improving over July and August, due to increasing demand for the Tabaski celebration. A farmer selling his sheep on the market of Bandiagara, received 210 kg of millet in August 2012 against 180 kg in July. Compared to the average of the last three years, the terms of trade remain favourable to the pastoralists in Bandiagara (+2%).
October 2012
Food Security