Agricultural landuse intensification increases the vulnerability of riparian forests to climate change impacts (and vice versa) in the Volta riparian countries including Ghana; requiring
comprehensive enforcement of ...
his brief highlights the current trend of increasing electricity generation from fossil-based thermal production in Ghana. A review of the need to change this trend with solar and wind energy as options was made. For ...
The Niger Basin is one of the most vulnerable hydrological systems where hydro-climatic changes is highly uncertain and changes in rainfall/runoff at the regional or local levels are inconsistent with projections; making ...
Thiombiano, Boundia Alexandre; Le, Quang Bao; Odai, Samuel Nii; Ouedraogo, Denis(WASCAL, 2017-09)
Agricultural livelihoods in West African smallholder farms are undermined by the continuous degradation of soil resources. Most smallholder farms are unable to replenish soil nutrients from the use of mineral nutrients due ...
Water stress is one of the risks emanating from worsening climatic variations. It poses serious threats on vulnerable continents, people and livelihoods globally.
Characteristics of temperature, carbon monoxide, spatial and temporal
distribution of urban heat island and its relationship with land use change
are very important tool for urban planning in the changing climate. In ...
Wild fires affect soil organic carbon stock positively and negatively. Emissions from these fires are toxic to both plant, animals and humans and when the concentrations are locally significant, they may contribute to ...
Doma forest reserve is under threat due to high anthropogenic activities and unsustainable land use practices such as the use of fire for land clearance, illegal logging and grazing. But the use of fire and cutting down ...
Faye, Laurice Codou; Boateng, Kyereh; Le, Quang Bao(WASCAL, 2017-09)
Charcoal is the main cooking fuel in Africa but its production characterized by the lack of formal policies that leave producers without any reliable framework resulted in changes in species composition and forest structure ...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is one of the largest and active carbon pools. Soils in Africa have lost 136 gigatonnes of carbon between 1850 and the late 1990s and 33 % of carbon
lost was attributed to land degradation and ...
The development of appropriate and effective adaptation measures
require sufficient knowledge of climate change and it impacts.
Household coping and adaptation strategies are functions of complex
decision-making that ...
Though climate change has adverse effect on human wellbeing globally, Sub-Saharan Africans (SSA) are noted to be the most vulnerable due to their high dependence on rain-fed agriculture for food security and economic growth ...
Land and Sea Breeze (LSB) is a mesoscale phenomenon
influencing human life in coastal areas where most populated
cities and most industries are located, but neglected
in urbanization planning policies resulting in the ...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is one of the largest and active carbon pools. Soils in Africa have lost 136 gigatonnes of carbon between 1850 and the late 1990s and 33 % of carbon lost was attributed to land degradation and ...
The potential abundance of land available for climate change mitigation by carbon sequestration through afforestation and reforestation is enormous in Nigeria.
Soil organic carbon is an important soil constituent that is constantly being lost as a result of some cultural practices leading to soil productivity decline.
The West African Monsoon (WAM) system plays a significant role in socio-economic activities especially for the population living in the tropical northern Africa whose economy depends mainly on rain-fed agriculture. In West ...
Extreme climate events (extreme rainfall and heatwaves) can have devastating impacts on society, the environment and economy. In West Africa, extreme climate events generally lead to loss of lives and property, due to the ...