Sahel Africa has great potential in livestock and is considered as an expor
ter while coastal countries are usually taken as markets, therefore importe
rs of sahelian products. However, the product flows are constrained by nume
rous factors endogenous as well as exogenous. Solutions can be found throug
h integration with a common tax and custom policy reducing the influence of
exogenous factors, a better flow of information to evaluate easier and to
match supply and demand, a better organization of professionals in the vari
ous sectors (producers, buyers, conveyors, participants, wholesale butchers
...), a better regulation and organization of animal flows and commercial e
xchanges (single registration desks, suppression of wild taxes....).
The focus should be directed toward training in meat professions, the reinf
orcement of the operation abilities of subregional institutions and a bette
r coordination. Finally, the setting of a livestock and meat monitoring sys
tem can enable the coordination of the different actions, the use of data w
ith greater benefit and make them available to the subregion governments.