In 2011, CCAFS carried out baseline surveys (household survey, a village study and an organizational survey) in 21 research sites across 17 countries within its five focus regions, using standardized baseline tools in each site. Seven years after the implementation of the baseline studies, the CC...
Ouédraogo, Mathieu
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Houessionon, Prosper
,
Partey, Samuel
,
Cramer, Laura
,
Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Jasaw, Godfred S.
,
Saaka, Buah
,
Riba, Alex
,
Barahona, Carlos
,
[CCAFS midline synthesis report - Ghana (GH0108)]
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CCAFS midline synthesis report - Ghana (GH0108)
This chapter provides an overview of the region, its current economic situ¬ation, and its vulnerability to climate change. It is designed to provide useful input into the efforts of ECOWAS in developing appropriate policies related to climate for the region. This chapter is followed by one that d...
Jalloh, Abdulai
,
Faye, MD
,
Roy-Macauley, Harold
,
Sérémé, P
,
Zougmoré, Robert B.
,
Thomas, Timothy S.
,
Nelson, Gerald C.
,
[An overview of West African agriculture and climate change]
,
An overview of West African agriculture and climate change
What is soil? Where does soil come from? What is special about soil in Africa? What does soil provide to society and the environment? How do our activities affect soil? The first ever Soil Atlas of Africa uses striking maps, informative texts and stunning photographs to answer and explain these a...
Jones, A.
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Breuning-Madsen H
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Brossard M
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Dampha, A.
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Deckers, J.
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Dewitte, O.
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Gallali T
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Hallett S
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Jones, R.
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Kilasara M
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Le Roux P
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Micheli E
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Montanarella L
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Spaargaren O
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Thiombiano, L.
,
Ranst, E, van
,
Yemefack M
,
Zougmoré, Robert B.
,
[Soil Atlas of Africa]
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Soil Atlas of Africa
This book examins 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 f...
Jalloh, Abdulai
,
Nelson, Gerald C.
,
Thomas, Timothy S.
,
Zougmoré, Robert B.
,
Roy-Macauley, Harold
,
[West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis]
,
West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis
Climate change impacts are manifesting throughout the world and they are especially significant in developing countries, including Ghana, that are particularly vulnerable. The impacts of climate change are complex and uncertain in nature that the usual conventional planning often falls short to a...
Botchway, Vincent Ansah
,
Sam, Kingsley Odum
,
Karbo, Naaminong
,
Essegbey, George Owusu
,
Nutsukpo, Delali
,
Agyemang, Kingsley
,
Zougmoré, Robert B.
,
Partey, Samuel T.
,
[Scenario-Guided Review of the Ghana Livestock Policy]
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Scenario-Guided Review of the Ghana Livestock Policy
We consider the question of what is needed for climate services to support sub-Saharan African farmers’ adaptation needs at the scale of the climate challenge. Consistent with an earlier assessment that mutually reinforcing supply-side and demand-side capacity constraints impede the development o...
Hansen, James
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Vaughan, Catherine
,
Kagabo, Desire M.
,
Dinku, Tufa
,
Carr, Edward
,
Körner, Jana
,
Zougmoré, Robert B.
,
[Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale]
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Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale
Globally the picture on climate change and its effects on humanity appear quite disturbing as food systems and consumption patterns are sliding towards low against prediction values. In Ghana population expansion as a driver has quadrupled now and
calls for more food and fibre needs than ten deca...
Botchway, Vincent Ansah
,
Sam, Kingsley Odum
,
Karbo, Naaminong
,
Essegbey, George Owusu
,
Nutsukpo, Delali
,
Agyemang, Kingsley
,
Zougmoré, Robert B.
,
Partey, Samuel T.
,
[Scaling up of CSA Platforms at the Subnational (District) Levels in Ghana: a Progressive Achievement of Theghana CCAFS Science-Policy Platform]
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Scaling up of CSA Platforms at the Subnational (District) Levels in Ghana: a Progressive Achievement of Theghana CCAFS Science-Policy Platform
Many projections of the impact of climate change on the crop, livestock and fishery production sectors of African agriculture are reported in the literature. However, they may be arguably too general to understand the magnitude
of impact and to inform adaptation strategies and policy development ...
Zougmoré, Robert B.
,
Partey, Samuel T.
,
Ouédraogo, Mathieu
,
Omitoyin, Bamidele
,
Thomas, Timothy S.
,
Ayantunde, Augustine A.
,
Ericksen, Polly J.
,
Said, Mohammed Yahya
,
Jalloh, Abdulai
,
[Toward climate-smart agriculture in West Africa: a review of climate change impacts, adaptation strategies and policy developments for the livestock, fishery and crop production sectors]
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Toward climate-smart agriculture in West Africa: a review of climate change impacts, adaptation strategies and policy developments for the livestock, fishery and crop production sectors
This summary note is an excerpt from the chapter on Niger that will appear in the peer-reviewed IFPRI monograph, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis.
Hassan Y
,
Danguioua, A.
,
Jalloh, Abdulai
,
Zougmoré, Robert B.
,
Nelson, Gerald C.
,
Thomas, Timothy S.
,
[West African agriculture and climate change: Niger. Summary note]
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West African agriculture and climate change: Niger. Summary note
Tis Tematic Series on “Climate-Smart Agriculture
Technologies in West Africa: learning from the ground
AR4D experiences” contains seven papers presented by
researchers from four West African countries based on
participatory action research conducted since 2012 in
the region. Tese research activit...
Bayala, Jules
,
Zougmoré, Robert B.
,
Dayamba, Sidzabda Djibril
,
Olivier, Alain
,
[Editorial for the Thematic Series in Agriculture & Food Security: Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in West Africa: learning from the ground AR4D experiences]
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Editorial for the Thematic Series in Agriculture & Food Security: Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in West Africa: learning from the ground AR4D experiences