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Climate Change Impact and Variability on Cereal Productivity among Smallholder Farmers under Future Production Systems in West Africa

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11820/
https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095191
doi:10.3390/su13095191
 
Title Climate Change Impact and Variability on Cereal Productivity among Smallholder Farmers under Future Production Systems in West Africa
 
Creator MacCarthy, D S
Adam, M
Freduah, B S
Fosu-Mensah, B Y
Ampim, P A Y
Ly, M
Traore, P S
Adiku, S G K
 
Subject Smallholder Farmers
Cereals
Climate Change
West Africa
 
Description Agriculture inWest Africa is constrained by several yield-limiting factors, such as poor soil
fertility, erratic rainfall distributions and low input systems. Projected changes in climate, thus, pose
a threat since crop production is mainly rain-fed. The impact of climate change and its variation on
the productivity of cereals in smallholder settings under future production systems in Navrongo,
Ghana and Nioro du Rip, Senegal was assessed in this study. Data on management practices obtained
from household surveys and projected agricultural development pathways (through stakeholder
engagements), soil data, weather data (historical: 1980–2009 and five General Circulation Models;
mid-century time slice 2040–2069 for two Representative Concentration Pathways; 4.5 and 8.5) were
used for the impact assessment, employing a crop simulation model. Ensemble maize yield changes
under the sustainable agricultural development pathway (SDP) were
 
Publisher MDPI
 
Date 2021-05
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11820/1/sustainability-13-05191-v2.pdf
MacCarthy, D S and Adam, M and Freduah, B S and Fosu-Mensah, B Y and Ampim, P A Y and Ly, M and Traore, P S and Adiku, S G K (2021) Climate Change Impact and Variability on Cereal Productivity among Smallholder Farmers under Future Production Systems in West Africa. Sustainability (TSI), 13 (9). pp. 1-22. ISSN 2071-1050