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Indefinite lockdown strategies and duration: the in the country at the local level. In the rural areas during
restricted movement is causing anxiety due to the fact the planting season, for example, vegetable seeds in
that many economic and social activities cannot go on as production areas like Banfora located around 500 km from
usual. No congregating in houses of worship and open- Ouagadougou, are scarce.
air markets is allowed. Generally Africans are social beings,
thus the one-meter-distance rule is rather baffling to Impact of livestock trade: Burkina Faso is amongst
them. the Sahelian countries dealing in large-scale livestock
production. Livestock production is a major income
Impact on the agricultural inputs: with the borders’ generator for communities and the government.
closure, importation of goods from China has decreased Closure of the livestock markets and borders has led to
greatly. The AgroSMEs in Burkina Faso who had placed a reduction in income. The country is unable to export to
orders for agricultural inputs could no longer receive its major market in Côte d’Ivoire. Moreover, the income
them. Despite looking to countries like Turkey and Russia, usually generated from the livestock trade would mainly
the borders being closed still affected delivery. Costs have been used by the locals for other investments like
of storage at the port also increased because of the agricultural inputs and outputs, health and education.
restriction in movement, which necessitates that goods
are stored for longer periods. This has also caused scarcity Public-private sector collaboration: to support rural

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