Overview

The Agricultural Market and Trade Department of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (French: Comité permanent Inter-État de Lutte contre la Sécheresse au Sahel, abbreviated as CILSS) has for mission to strengthen and expand the fluidification of trade in agricultural and agri-food products and the development of trade in the Sahel and ECOWAS. CILSS is working in 17 countries that include all the 15 ECOWAS member countries, plus Chad and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.