Sierra Leone
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The Livelihood Zone Map for Sierra Leone is the result of secondary data review and key informant workshops in July 2010. A livelihood zone is an area within which people share broadly the same pattern of livelihood, including options for obtaining food and income and market opportunities. A livelihood zoning is essential for the following reasons:
- It provides geographic orientation of livelihood systems to inform food security analysis and assistance targeting
- It provides the basis for identifying geographically relevant food security monitoring indicators
- It provides a sampling frame for future on-the-ground assessments
Livelihood patterns clearly vary from one geographic area to another, which is why the preparation of a Livelihood Zone Map is a logical first step for livelihoods-based analysis.
The following ten (10) livelihood zones are established for Sierra Leone:
- SL01 - Rice and Secondary Gold Mines
- SL02 - Formerly Mixed (NW) - Crops, Livestock, Rice, Cassava, Sweet Potato
- SL03 - Degradation, Short Cycle, Root Crops, Trade, Cassava, Yam (Formerly Trade Based)
- SL04 - Fish and Food Crop
- SL05 - Cash Crop, Food Crop, Trade (SE)
- SL06 - Rice and Trees
- SL07 - Livestock Trade, Food Crop
- SL08 - Vegetable Production Area
- SL09 - Freetown peri-Urban
- SL10 - Rice Bowl Area
Livelihood Zone Maps illustrate the country by zone, showing areas where people generally have the same options for obtaining food and income and engaging in trade. Livelihood zones are influenced by natural resource endowments and agroclimatic conditions, as well as including comparable access to markets.