Table 1.

Distribution of the interviewed livestock keepers (n) across farming systems and across the three West African cities of Kano (Nigeria), Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) and Sikasso (Mali)

Production system	Total	Kano	Bobo Dioulasso	Sikasso
Commercial gardening plus field crops and livestock (cGCL)	88	58	21	9
Commercial gardening plus semi-commercial livestock (cGscL)	13	13	0	0
Commercial livestock plus subsistence field cropping (cLsC)	109	13	42	54

For classification and description of farming systems see Dossa et al. (2011)