Sahel Animal Mortality Predictions for Senegal and Mauritania

Predicted animal mortality data at the commune and municipality levels for Senegal and Mauritania, produced by the PREDISAN project. Created by Acción contra el hambre and GIS4tech, the dataset uses agroclimatic indicators, biomass, and violence data to model livestock deaths where actual records are missing.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between biomass availability and livestock mortality in Senegalese communes
• Assessing the influence of violence indicators on pastoral vulnerability in Mauritanian municipalities
• Spatial analysis of agroclimatic indicators to predict humanitarian crises in the Western Sahel

Strengths

• Commune-level spatial granularity for all of Senegal and Mauritania
• Integration of biomass and violence indicators as predictors
• Expert-backed modeling from the PREDISAN AI-SAHEL project

Limitations

• Contains synthetic/predicted values rather than direct field observations for many areas
• Geographic scope is limited to two specific countries
• Lack of explicit column definitions in the primary metadata

Provenance

Source

PREDISAN Project (Acción contra el hambre, GIS4tech, University of Granada)

Collection Method

AI-based prediction modeling using GIS analysis and correlation with agroclimatic variables

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Senegal and Mauritania