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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Charcoal production plays an important role in global socio-economic development as a source of income, energy and rural poverty alleviation. However, increasing commercial charcoal production has raised concerns about its ...

Forest management is considered as a strategy of mitigation and adaptation to climate change because of its ability to contribute to improve local livelihood and reduce carbon emission from forest. This study investigated ...

Climate change has become one of the global environmental issues more visible in recent decades. Flooding is one of the natural disasters that combine with climate change to create effects and cause some of the most ...

The Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was developed as an attempt to confront and begin to reverse the rising CO2 concentrations. But in order to set emission reduction ...