Current and Future Challenges and Opportunities for Livestock Farming in West Africa: Perspectives from the Case of Senegal

Livestock farming is a livelihood activity and critically important for the food nutritional security of majority population in West African countries, including Senegal. Nevertheless, livestock operates far below optimum production potential, mainly due to demographical, biophysical, economic, environmental, sociopolitical challenges. To address these issues, we conducted this review with an overall objective characterizing different systems identify challenges opportunities improve Africa through broader perspectives from case Pastoral, agropastoral, off-land are three major region, which unique terms agroclimatology degree intensification integration. The identified lack pasture quality feed, scarcity water resources, climate change, undeveloped breeding management livestock, poor marketing trade, socioeconomic constraints. Moreover, contribute literature on crop-livestock Senegal by proposing plausible interventions productivity system security. Concentrated efforts must be taken co-designing effective sustainable sector considering site-specific approaches.