The significant role of tropical forest ecosystems in the global carbon budget has increased the need for accurate estimates of tropical forest biomass. The lack of large-scale biomass allometric equations hampers ...

Aims: The Savanes region of Togo is characterized by frequent droughts and floods which adversely affect farming, the primary source of livelihood for majority of households in the region. Given the rapidly changing climate, ...

This research investigated rice farmers’ adaptation strategies to climate change in two rice production zones in Benin, Malanville in the extreme North zone and Glazoué in the Centre zone of the country, basing on a gender ...

Presently, there is one African regional inventory dealing with biofuel and fossil fuel emissions (Liousse et al., 2014) and only global emission inventories including Africa. Developing a regional inventory for gases and ...

Reducing emissions fromdeforestation and forest degradation with other benefits (REDD+) mechanism is supposed to address the reversal of forest-based land degradation, conservation of existing carbon stocks, and enhancement ...

This paper investigates the degree of informality of agricultural entrepreneurship in Benin, using data from the follow up survey of 2011 of the General Census of Enterprises. Considering informality as a continuum, the ...

In the search for rural transformation, this paper analyses the effect of agriculture on rural nonfarm entrepreneurship (NFE) highlighting the role of land rights and assesses the impact of rural NFE on households’ livelihood ...

Agroforestry plays an important role in food security and farmer’s resilience to climate change and variability in West Africa. However agroforestry parkland profile in the climatic zone in Burkina Faso are not well known. ...

Improvement of the soils physico-chemical and microbiological properties using organic fertilizers in tomato production in the Sudanese-Sahelian zone Tomato production is facing many constraints that limit its yield. The ...

This study investigates trends of climate extreme indices in the Komadugu-Yobe Basin (KYB) based on observed data of the period 1971–2017 as well as regional climate model (RCM) simulations for the historical period (1979–2005), ...