eprintid: 10799
rev_number: 15
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datestamp: 2018-07-17 09:30:01
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creators_name: Jalloh, A
creators_name: Faye, M D
creators_name: Roy-Macauley, H
creators_name: Sereme, P
creators_name: Zougmore, R B
creators_name: Thomas, T S
creators_name: Nelson, G C
icrisatcreators_name: Zougmore, R B
affiliation: West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (WECARD) (Dakar)
affiliation: Markets, and Trade Programme, West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (WECARD) (Dakar)
affiliation: Natural Resources Management, West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (WECARD) (Dakar)
affiliation: Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Niamey)
affiliation: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (Washington)
country: Senegal
country: Niger
country: USA
title: Summary and conclusions
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.8
subjects: s28
subjects: s4009
full_text_status: public
keywords: Climate variability, West Africa, Climate change, Agriculture, Livelihoods, Food security
abstract: Climate variability is a reality that is affecting rural livelihoods in West
Africa today and presenting a growing challenge in the region, as in many
other parts of the African continent and elsewhere. Climate change will
have far-reaching consequences for the poor and marginalized groups among
which the majority depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and have a
lower capacity to adapt. Weather-related crop failures, fishery collapses, and
livestock deaths in addition to losses of property are already causing economic
losses and undermining food security in West Africa. This situation is likely
to become more desperate and to threaten the survival of the majority of poor
farmers as global warming continues. Feeding the increasing populations in
a subregion with one of the highest rates of population growth in the world
requires radical transformation of a largely underdeveloped agriculture over
the next four decades. A major challenge is increasing agricultural production
among resource-poor farmers without exacerbating environmental problems
and simultaneously coping with climate change...
date: 2013
date_type: published
series: IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series
publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute
place_of_pub: Washington
pagerange: 383-391
pages: 408
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-0-89629-204-8
book_title: West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
editors_name: Jalloh, A
editors_name: Nelson, G N
editors_name: Thomas, T S
editors_name: Zougmore, R B
editors_name: Roy-Macauley, H
citation:   Jalloh, A and Faye, M D and Roy-Macauley, H and Sereme, P and Zougmore, R B and Thomas, T S and Nelson, G C  (2013) Summary and conclusions.   In:  West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis.   IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series .  International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, pp. 383-391.  ISBN 978-0-89629-204-8     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/10799/1/chapter%2014.pdf