ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS  P.6

ADDRESSING THE PERSISTENT GAPS IN FOOD TRADE DATA IN WEST AFRICA  P.7

THE COST OF INVISIBILITY: HOW MISSING DATA UNDERMINES INTRA‑REGIONAL FOOD TRADE  P.8

‑ Intra‑regional food trade in West Africa: A major but under‑measured reality  P.8

‑ Why intra‑regional food trade mostly goes unrecorded  P.11

‑ Implications of the gaps in regional food trade data  P.12

FOUNDATIONS FOR BETTER MEASUREMENT OF INTRA‑REGIONAL FOOD TRADE IN WEST AFRICA  P.17

‑ Building on national and regional initiatives for measuring unrecorded food trade  P.17

‑ Barriers to scaling up: Distrust, low use value and limited policy relevance  P.18

‑ Improving intra‑regional food trade measurement: A political more than a technical challenge  P.19

AN AGENDA FOR BETTER FOOD TRADE DATA SYSTEMS IN WEST AFRICA  P.20

‑ Improving national capacities for recording regional food trade  P.20

‑ Regionalising food trade data production in West Africa  P.22

‑ Increasing the policy relevance of intra‑regional food trade data  P.23

NOTES  P.24

REFERENCES  P.25