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Effects of customized climate services on land and labor productivity in Burkina Faso and Ghana

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/12100/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880721000686
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100280
 
Title Effects of customized climate services on land and labor productivity in Burkina Faso and Ghana
 
Creator Sanfo, S
Salack, S
Saley, I A
Daku, E K
Worou, N O
Savadogo, A
Barro, H
Guug, S
Koné, H
Ibrahim, B
Rojas, A
Raimond, C
Ogunjobi, K O
 
Subject Burkina Faso
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Ghana
 
Description Climate services favor adopting strategies to increase agricultural productivity, enhance sustainable development,
and adapt to unavoidable climate variability and change. However, for climates services to be effective, they must be accessible and suitable to user needs. This study investigated the effects of customized climate services (CCS) on land and labor productivity. Portraying the case of CCS delivered in the districts of Bolgatanga (Northern Ghana), Dano and Ouahigouya (western and northern Burkina Faso) in West Africa, it used: i) historical panel data of daily rainfall, yields, agricultural input, and output prices; ii) cost statements of farm operations and iii) other survey data from beneficiaries of on-farm demonstrations (pilot sites). Different results were found across farmers on the demonstrator sites, with Dano and Bolgatanga recording the best land and labor productivity. Strong and positive effects were observed in Dano, where land productivity increased by 200% and labor productivity doubled despite consecutive pluviometric extremes such as heavy rain events and prolonged dry spells in the 2017 and 2018 cropping seasons. Further investigation showed that CCS was particularly favorable to land and labor productivity of farmers who were committed to the advisory given by the
CCS providers. Therefore, as perishable goods, the success of CCS applications would require thorough coproduction,
delivery, and monitoring for their effectiveness in improving land and labor productivity for agriculture
in semi-arid regions of West Africa.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2021-12-27
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/12100/1/Climate%20Services_25_01-13_2022.pdf
Sanfo, S and Salack, S and Saley, I A and Daku, E K and Worou, N O and Savadogo, A and Barro, H and Guug, S and Koné, H and Ibrahim, B and Rojas, A and Raimond, C and Ogunjobi, K O (2021) Effects of customized climate services on land and labor productivity in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Climate Services, 25. 01-13. ISSN 2405-8807