This document presents agricultural data collected in northern Benin provided by CERPA (Centre Régional pour la Promotion Agricole) in 2011. They are recorded in a set of tables informing on inputs (fertilizers and insecticides) used for food production (Rice and maize) and cotton during the period 2009-2010. It also indicates about the situation of the setting up of cash credits by the World Bank in each municipality in the study area. The aim of this agricultural project, led by CERPA, is to facilitate access to inputs in order to generate food self-sufficiency and reduce poverty. Indeed, the favorable natural, human and financial conditions for good agricultural production in Benin remain a major problem. This project, which is part of a viable and reliable agricultural policy, enables local, national and development partners to guarantee food security and to satisfy the full needs the populations.

Data describes harvest evolution in whole Benin between 2009 and 2010 in terms of yield, superficies used and productivity. The closer look of the ATACORA Department where WASCAL undertook fieldworks shows the previsions and the realizations between 2009 and 2010.

This document produced by CERPA in 2011 is a report on the number of water reservoirs/dams per commune in the departments of Atacora / Donga and points of the fishing infrastructures. The objective of this project is to identify pastoral water points in order to allow a good supervision of the agricultural actors. The issue of water management for good agricultural policy remains an important issue for Benin.

The majority of the people of West Africa are engaged in agriculture and related activities. As such, land is an important factor of agricultural production. But land scarcity and fragmentation in the wake of population growth, climatic variability and environmental deterioration have undermined large-scale agricultural production. This has worsened the poverty and food insecurity situation in the subregion. With migration as an integral feature of the socioeconomic dynamics of most societies, people have–apart from other responses–resorted to migration in search of fertile land and economic opportunities.

This Social Dashboard provides an analysis of the socio-economic profiles of the regions of North Benin (Departments of Atacora and Donga). According to the Beninese government, the main objective is to create the conditions for accelerated growth for poverty reduction. This document enable the various actors, both local, national and international, to gauge the progress made (between 2008 to 2009) and the level of development of the two departments and to foresee the considerable efforts still to be made to reach the Millennium Development Goals.