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Climate information use implications for climate risk mitigation in West Africa

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Title Climate information use implications for climate
risk mitigation in West Africa
 
Creator Partey, S T
Zougmore, R B
Ouedraogo, M
 
Subject Climate Risk
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Climate Change
African Agriculture
ICT
West Africa
 
Description With projections of a 70 percent increase in demand for staple
cereals by 2050 in order to feed the growing human population
(FAO, 2010), combined with the current declining per capita food
production and a dwindling natural resource base, ‘feeding West
Africa’ and increasing the resilience of livelihood systems may be
well beyond reach. This has been attributed to multiple factors
such as land tenure challenges, declining soil fertility, poor
markets, climate hazards and variability, inadequate funding and
poor infrastructural development (Ouedraogo et al, 2016; Partey
et al, 2016). The current state of food insecurity and poor rural
livelihoods are expected to be further exacerbated by climate
change and variability which has emerged as one of the major
threats to development in West Africa (Zougmoré et al, 2016)...
 
Publisher Tropical Agriculture Association (TTA)
 
Date 2017
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10714/1/Climate%20information%20use%20implications%20for%20climate%20risk%20mitigation%20in%20West%20Africa.pdf
Partey, S T and Zougmore, R B and Ouedraogo, M (2017) Climate information use implications for climate risk mitigation in West Africa. Agriculture for Development, 30. pp. 16-17. ISSN 1759-0604