Transhumance Hotspots Analysis: Physical Access Constraints and Food Insecurity in the Central African Republic

Bangui (Central African Republic), World Food Programme (WFP): 2022.

English

19 p.

WFPELR2972

The Central African Republic (CAR) pastoralism adopted seasonal mobility which is transhumance in herding and shifting agriculture in farming. Transboundary pastoralism is practiced in CAR by Cameroonian, Chadian, Sudanese, and South Sudanese groups of herders. This activity is met with challenges ranging from cattle theft, farmer grazier problems, and armed groups activities which lead to incidents that are at times fatal. Data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) publicly available, were analyzed to identify locations where a transhumance incidence occurred and subprefectures that are access constraints and food insecure due to the occurrence of transhumance incidences. Hotspot analysis provides a way to show the relationship between features and whether high or low values cluster spatially. In summary, the analysis groups subprefectures where similar High (Hot) or Low (Cold) numbers of incidents are found in a cluster. Hotspot analysis is therefore a basic form of incidences predictions, an analytical technique that can be used to help identify where management can target physical accessibility constraints, humanitarian aid, and transhumance conflict resolution mechanism resources.

Electronic ed.

ELR 2972

English