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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 ...
influence of madden-julian oscillation (mjo) on rainfall variability over west africa at intraseasonal timescale

Coumba, Niang (WASCAL, 2015)

intraseasonal variability of rainfall over West Africa plays a significant role in the economy of the region that are highly linked to agriculture and water resources. This study therefore has two aims. The study first ...
River Basins Assessment and Hydrologic Processes Modeling for Integrated Land and Water Resources Management (Ilwrm) in West Africa

Badjana, Hèou Maléki (WASCAL, 2015-01)

The integrated assessment of river basins based on a holistic system analysis approach is of high relevance for sustainable water resources management. In this study, the climate variability especially rainfall patterns ...
Factoring Climate Variability and Change into Crop Models for Enhancing Sorghum Performance in the West African Semi-Arid Tropics

Akinseye, Folorunso Mathew (WASCAL, 2015-01)

In semi-arid West Africa, there is growing concern about the potential impacts of climate change and variability on the productivity of agricultural crops and hence food security. This region is highly vulnerable to variable ...
Empirical Analysis of the Recent Rainfall Recovery in West Africa

Sanogo, Souleymane (2015-01)

In this study, daily and monthly rainfall data from 167 and 254 stations, respectively, across West Africa with at least 80% data availability for the 31-year period 1980-2010 and the gridded African Rainfall Climatology- ...
Estimation of Land-Surface-Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Exchanges over Tropical Savanna Ecosystems.

Quansah, Emmanuel (WASCAL, 2015-02)

The African savanna ecosystems have been identified as major sources of inter-annual variability of the global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). To quantify CO2 fluxes between the land surface and atmosphere of terrestrial ...
Potential impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Hydrology and Water resources over the Volta Basin

Annor, Thompson (WASCAL, 2015-02)

The Volta Basin is one of the vital water resources in West African region. Climate variability and change pose serious consequences on water availability in the basin, as a result of its climate-sensitive nature. Therefore, ...
West African Aerosols and their Impacts on Regional Climate

Toure, N’Datchoh Evelyne (WASCAL, 2015-03)

West Africa is one of the most important source of aerosols in the World due to the large extent of Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa which have been identified as the first source of mineral dust. In addition, fires ...
Evaluation of the Seasonal Variability of Evapotranspiration using Micro- Meteorological Observations and Remote Sensing Techniques in Ghana and Burkina-Faso.

Oluwadare, Ayoola Olamitomi (WASCAL, 2015-03)

The availability and management of water supply in the sub-Sahara region of West-Africa is becoming a great concern. Thus, adequate information on the spatial and temporal distribution of surface energy balance components ...
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 ...
Impact of Cashew Expansion on Land Use/ Land Cover Change and Carbon Stocks in the Forest-Savanna Transition Zone, North-East Côte d’Ivoire

Akpa, You Lucette (WASCAL, 2015-04)

An increased production of cashew (Anacardium Occidentale L.) in the forest-savanna transition zone of Côte d’Ivoire calls for an understanding of the biophysical, ecological as well as climate change implications that may ...
Soil Respiration across predominant Land-uses in the Vea catchment in the Sudan savannah zone, North-east Ghana

Owusu Prempeh, Nat (WASCAL, 2015-04)

A study to quantify soil respiration (SR) across predominant land-uses in the Vea catchment, a semi-arid Savannah ecosystem of Ghana, was carried out using the closed static chamber method and CO2 transmitter (GMD 20, ...
Long -Term Vegetation Dynamics over the Bani River Basin as Impacted by Climate Change and Land Use

Traore, Souleymane Sidi (WASCAL, 2015-04)

This study investigated the long-term trends in vegetation and rainfall and the extent and rate of vegetation change over the Bani river Basin at multiple spatial and temporal scales in relation to local and regional ...
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 ...
Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Water Resources in the Senegal River Basin at Bakel

Mbaye, Mamadou Lamine (WASCAL, 2015-10)

In this study we assess the impact of climate change on water resources by using uncorrected and bias corrected data from the regional climate model REMO simulations over the Senegal River Basin (SRB). Both simulations ...
Improving Rainfall - Runoff Modelling through Uncertainties’ Control under Increasing Climate Variability in the Oueme River Basin

Biao, Eliezer Iboukoun (WASCAL, 2015-11)

The development of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in the context of climate change and variability has created the need for an extension of mathematical analyses of hydrological system dynamics. The ...

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