TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AV  - public
KW  - West African agriculture
KW  -  climate change
KW  -  food security
KW  -  West Africa
KW  -  Benin
KW  -  Burkina Faso
KW  -  Côte d?Ivoire
KW  -  Ghana
KW  -  Guinea
KW  -  Liberia
KW  -  Niger
KW  -  Nigeria
KW  -  Senegal
KW  -  Sierra Leone
KW  -  Togo
KW  -  sustainable food security
T3  - IFPRI?s climate change in Africa series
A1  - Jalloh, A
A1  - Nelson, G C
A1  - Thomas, T S
A1  - Zougmore, R B
A1  - Macauley, H R
TI  - West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis
UR  - http://www.ifpri.org/publication/west-african-agriculture-and-climate-change-comprehensive-analysis
Y1  - 2013///
ID  - icrisat10793
EP  - 408
SN  - 978-0-89629-204-8
PB  - International Food Policy Research Institute
CY  - Washington
ER  -