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West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis

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Title West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis
 
Creator Jalloh, A
Nelson, G C
Thomas, T S
Zougmore, R B
Macauley, H R
 
Subject Climate Adaptation
Ghana
Nigeria
Climate Change
Food Security
African Agriculture
West Africa
Niger
 
Description The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa — Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region.

West Africa’s population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater. West Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the poor will suffer.

Through the use of hundreds of scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the editors and contributors of West African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050. They also offer recommendations to national governments and regional economic agencies already dealing with the vulnerabilities of climate change and deviations in environment. Decisionmakers and researchers will find West African Agriculture and Climate Change a vital tool for shaping policy and studying the various and likely consequences of climate change.
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Book
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10793/1/127655.pdf
Jalloh, A and Nelson, G C and Thomas, T S and Zougmore, R B and Macauley, H R (2013) West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis. IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series . International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington. ISBN 978-0-89629-204-8