• Climate Vulnerability and Building Flood Resilience Strategies in Jigawa State, Nigeria 

  Yusuf, Abdulmalik Mohammed (WASCAL, 2019-06)

  Climate change and/or climate variability has heightened the frequency and re-occurrence of climate related disasters, particularly floods in the past two decades globally. This is likely to increase vulnerabilities in ...
• Climate-Smart Innovations Adoption and Impact on Farm Economic Performance and Welfare In Benin: Case of Drought Tolerant Maize. 

  Atchikpa, Tchègoun Michel (WASCAL, 2019-04)

  The principal objective of this research is to investigate in the context of climate change, the impact of the Drought Tolerant Maize (DTM) innovations on economic performance and welfare in Be ninnin. In this study, we ...
• Climate Change and Food Security in Central Mali: A Dynamic and Stochastic Bioeconomic Farm Model 

  Diarra, Aichatou (WASCAL, 2016-05)

  African farmers need to better adapt to climate variability. Many of them underwent a terrible famine in the seventies and still face food insecurity. In this study we aim to investigate the situation of Malian farmers of ...
• Energy Transition towards Green Energy and its Implication in the Gambia 

  Sawaneh, Mamma (WASCAL, 2020-01)

  This thesis analyses the transition towards green energy and its implication on the wellbeing of households and on sustainable development targets of the Gambia. Three specific objectives were analysed from secondary ...
• Green Entrepreneurship: Relevant case studies in Togo 

  Adji, Koffi Massesso (WASCAL, 2019-04)

  The objective of this research is to showcase some practices of green entrepreneurship in Togo. Thus, a choice modelling approach is applied in this dissertation in order to estimate firms’ willingness to carry out green ...
• Impact Of Climate Finance on Sustainable Development in West Africa 

  Aman, Jean-Aristide Nicaise (WASCAL, 2019-04)

  This research examined the understanding of climate finance in West Africa and how countries can benefit to build resilience and cope with the consequences of climate change since this issue is projected to worsen their ...
• Gender Analysis of Climate Vulnerability and Livelihood Strategies among Farming Households in Northern Ghana 

  Adzawla, William (WASCAL, 2019-04)

  This study analysed both inter- and intra-households’ gender inequalities (climate vulnerability, productivity and welfare) and the effects of climate adaptation through livelihood diversification on gender inequalities ...
• Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation and Agriculture: Trade-Off rr Win-Win Situation for Small Farmers in the Sudanian Area of Burkina Faso? 

  Some, Tiertou Edwige (WASCAL, 2015-04)

  Climate changes talks regularly underline that developing countries’ agriculture could play a stronger role in greenhouse gases (GHG) mitigation strategies and benefit from market internalization of emission reductions or ...
• Reforestation and Climate Mitigation in Côte d’Ivoire: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the Bouaflé Protected Forest 

  Kouame, Bossombra Nadege Parfaite (WASCAL, 2016-04)

  Forests play a key role in the environmental balance and act as a livelihood provider for people especially for the surrounding population. Côte d'Ivoire located in West Africa, has a high level of biodiversity, mainly on ...
• Climate Variability, Food Crops Supply and Family Farm Employment in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of Nigeria 

  Yusuf, Isah Maikudi (WASCAL, 2016-04)

  This thesis is based on the premise that the impact of climate variability on crop production decisions can be either positive or negative depending on the crop, cropping system and the nature of the variation in weather ...
• Climate Change and Sustainable Intensification in Senegal: A Case Study of the organic Vegetable Farming System in the Niayes Region. 

  Ba Bah, Amadou Binta (WASCAL, 2016-04)

  This study aims to investigate the present production and marketing systems of vegetables production in the Niayes so as to analyze the potential of organic farming to enhance framers’ productivity and to mitigate climate ...
• Impact of Floods on the Livelihoods of Farmers in the Context of Forest Degradation and Climate change: Case Study of Benin Republic 

  Bonou, Alice (WASCAL, 2016-04)

  Climate Change is likely to affect temporal and spatial patterns of moisture delivery and the physical form and quantity of moisture delivered over a given period of time. These changing patterns will probably lead to ...
• The economics of African animal Trypanasomosis Control under Climate Change 

  Dicko, Ahmadou Hamady (WASCAL, 2016-04)

  African animal trypanosomiasis (AAT), transmitted by the tsetse fly, is a climate sensitive animal disease that is a major obstacle to sustainable development of livestock husbandry and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
• Farmers’ exposure to climate change in Rural Northern Nigeria: Effect of Financial Inclusion as Adaptation Strategy 

  Abraham, Terfa Williams (WASCAL, 2016-04)

  Most households in Rural Northern Nigeria are engaged in farming hence exposed to the vagaries of Climate Change. This study examines the exposure of rural farm households to climate change in rural northern Nigeria and ...
• Collective Action and Farmers’ Private Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in the Savanna Region In Togo 

  Pilo, Mikemina (WASCAL, 2015-03)

  This study has two main objectives. The first main objective is to analyse the role of collective action and other factors on farmers’ adaptive behaviour. In addition to determining the impact of collective action on the ...
• Farmers and communities vulnerability and resilience to climate shocks and adaptation policy responses in the Niger basin of Benin 

  Lokonon, Boris Odilon Kounagbè (WASCAL, 2015-03)

  This study aims to answer the question: How are households and communities in the Niger basin of Benin vulnerable and resilient to climate shocks and what will their adaptation policy responses be? The analysis of the ...
• A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on Food Crop Production and Prices in Senegal 

  Sarr, Khady Yama (WASCAL, 2016-04)

  The Senegalese agricultural sector shows low production level over the last decades. This study assesses the impact of climate change on crop production and price levels in Senegal and also tests policies instruments ...
• Psycho-Socioeconomic Analysis of Rural Farm Communities’ Risk Perception and Adaptive Behavioural Responses to Climate Change and Variability in the Atankwidi River Basin of Northern Ghana 

  Appah, John (WASCAL, 2015-04)

  Recent efforts to facilitate private climate change adaptation have not been effective due to their exclusive consideration of socioeconomic or contextual factors as the drivers of adaptive behaviour. A growing body of ...
• Households Resilience to Food Insecurity and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in Niger 

  Gambo Boukary, Aboubakr (WASCAL, 2016-04)

  Niger is a landlocked country where rainfall is characterised by high inter-annual and spacetime variability. It faces many natural and human constraints that explain the erratic evolution of its agricultural production. ...
• Evaluating the Impact of Cereal Banking on Food and Livelihood Security of Rural Communities in The Gambia 

  Jatta, Raymond (WASCAL, 2014-04)

  mport-dependent developing countries like The Gambia are particularly vulnerable to food and nutrition insecurity caused by rainfall and price volatility. This is due to the increasing frequency and severity of climate and ...

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