Profil Niger – NE 05 – Tessaoua Nord – Septembre 2007

This livelihood zone represents the North Zone as defined by the Tessaoua local government Agricultural Service, i.e. the area of settled agriculture and livestock rearing lying between the Central Zone and the purely pastoral zone which occupies the far north of Tessaoua Department. The 10 villages which were the sample for this survey are from a wide band of this zone from east to west, but avoiding the southern edge which might form a transition area between North and Central, and likewise avoiding the far northern fringe which has patches of cultivation at the very limit of viability in terms of average rainfall.