Countries in West Africa include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo Rep., Cape Verde, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, São Tomé and Príncipe, Chad, and Togo.
The Western African region includes many of the countries along the Atlantic coast of West Africa south of the Sahara Desert, and extends far into the landlocked countries of Northern and Central Africa (Chad and the Central African Republic). Our treatment of this region includes 21 African nations. Cereal-root crop intercropping and agro-pastoral systems both dominant the region’s agriculture. Millet and sorghum are the most widely grown crops and pulses and maize are also important.
