Outcome Analysis Report – Nigeria – November 2014

The five livelihood zones are primarily agricultural-based supporting a wide variety of rain-fed crops suited to drylands areas including millet, sorghum, maize, rice, cowpeas, groundnuts, sesame, cotton as well as (increasingly) soybeans. Rainfed agriculture is carried out during the single rainy season which runs from April/May to October.

The peak months of rainfall are June to August. In the dry season, food crops and market vegetables are grown on low lying river flood plains (i.e., fadama) either through irrigation or flood retreat agriculture. The main period of harvest is from September to November. The dry-season harvest is March. In all five zones, livestock production supplements agriculture.