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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Social Capital and Farmers’ Adaptations Strategies to Climate Change in Burkina Faso

Yameogo, Thomas Bindayaoba (WASCAL, 2015-04)

Farmers in Burkina Faso are highly vulnerable to climate change, as their livelihoods are greatly linked to climate hazards. The adaptation of farmers to climate change is therefore an important issue that requires proper ...
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 ...
Integrated Assessment of Vulnerability of Rural Households to Climate Stress across Regional Levels in Niger

Elhadji Iro, Illa (WASCAL, 2015-04)

Rural communities in Niger entirely rely on natural resources and have no other option but to smoothing their livelihoods against climate change related knock-on effects. In the context of unpredictable environmental ...
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 ...
Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture in Tandjoare-Togo as Climate Mitigation option: A case study of Conservation Tillage

Afo-Loko, Owodon (WASCAL, 2016-04)
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Modelling Demand for Weather Index Insurance as Adaptation Instrument to Drought Risk Event in Central-West Nigeria

Awolala, David Olufemi (WASCAL, 2016-04)

There has been increase in both the frequency of extreme weather events and the number of vulnerable human population. Converging results from climate model simulations projected that extreme climatic events will result ...
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 ...
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 ...
Estimating the Impact and Spillover Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yield in Northern Ghana

Botchway, Ebo (WASCAL, 2016-04)

In tropical regions of the world human-induced climate change is likely to impact negatively on crop yields. To investigate the impact of climate change and its spillover effect on mean and variance of crop yields in ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...

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