In the last 40 years in sub-Saharan Africa, huge investments have been made in inland valley (IV) development for agricultural production. Understanding the agricultural and socioeconomic impacts of IV development may ...

Using time series of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and rainfall data, we investigated historical vegetation productivity trends from 1982 to 2011 over the Bani River Basin in Mali. Statistical agreements ...

Reducing emissions fromdeforestation and forest degradation with other benefits (REDD+) mechanism is supposed to address the reversal of forest-based land degradation, conservation of existing carbon stocks, and enhancement ...

Agriculture in Mali, a country in Sahelian West Africa, strongly depends on rainfall and concurrently has a low adaptive capacity, making it consequently one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change worldwide. ...

This paper presents data collected in 2013, 2014 and 2015 on the cultural practices and agronomic performance of cropping systems in 500 lowland rice fields located in five regions of three West African countries, Benin, ...

Study region: Terrain and hydrological data are scarce in many African countries. The coarsespatial resolution of freely available Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission elevation data andthe absence of flow gauges on flood-prone ...

This paper presents an evaluation of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model in simulating wet and dry West African monsoon (WAM) rainfall seasons. Three model experiments with varying selected microphysics (MP), ...