• Evaluation of gap-filling methods for Landsat 7 ETM+ SLC-off image for LULC classification in a heterogeneous landscape of West Africa 

  Asare, Yaw Mensah; Forkuo, Eric Kwabena; Forkuor, Gerald; Thiel, Michael (Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-21)

  The Landsat mission which has existed over five decades has remained at the forefront of providing consistent moderate spatial and temporal resolution optical images of the earth. The failure of the scan line corrector ...
• Changes in length of rainy season and rainfall extremes under moderate greenhouse gas emission scenario in the Vea catchment, Ghana 

  Larbi, Isaac; Bessah, Enoch; Nyamekye, Clement; Amuzu, Joshua; Okafor, Gloria C.; Kwawuvi, Daniel; Asare, Yaw Mensah (IWAP, 2021-04-22)

  The economic implications of extreme climate changes are found to impact sub-Saharan Africa negatively. This study aimed to analyze projected changes in length of rainy season (LRS), and rainfall extreme indices at the Vea ...
• Soil and Water Conservation in Burkina Faso, West Africa 

  Nyamekye, Clement; Thiel, Michael; Schönbrodt-Stitt, Sarah; Zoungrana, Benewinde J.-B.; Amekudzi, Leonard K. (MDPI, 2018-09-06)

  Inadequate land management and agricultural activities have largely resulted in land degradation in Burkina Faso. The nationwide governmental and institutional driven implementation and adoption of soil and water conservation ...
• Simulating agricultural land-use adaptation decisions to climate change: An empirical agent-based modelling in northern Ghana 

  Amadou, Mahamadou L.; Villamor, Grace B.; Kyei-Baffour, Nicholas (Agricultural Systems, 2017-10)

  In West Africa, the majority of regional climate projections for the region predict that the study area will become warmer and that precipitation patterns will be more erratic. The aim of this article is to examine local ...
• Potential storages and drivers of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen across river basin landscape: The case of Mo river basin (Togo) in West Africa 

  Diwediga, AfricaBadabate; Le, Quang Bao; Agodzo, Sampson; Wala, Kperkouma (Ecological Engineering, 2016-11)

  tQuantification of carbon and nitrogen in soils in relation to ecological, landform and management factorsover river basins is essential to understand landscape ecosystem functions and efforts to manage landrestoration and ...
• Soil salinity assessment and coping strategies in the coastal agricultural landscape in Djilor district, Senegal 

  Thiam, Sophie; Villamor, Grace B.; Kyei-Baffour, Nicholas; Matty, François (Land Use Policy, 2019)

  Soil salinity remains one of the most severe environmental problems in the coastal agricultural areas in Senegal. It reduces crop yields thereby endangering smallholder farmers’ livelihood. This paper aims to investigate ...
• Implications of some major human-induced activities on forest cover using extended change matrix quantity and intensity analysis based on historical Landsat data from the Kloto District, Togo 

  Koglo, Yawovi S.; Gaiser, Thomas; Agyare, Wilson A.; Sogbedji, Jean M.; Kouami, Kokou (Ecological Indicators, 2018)

  This study analyses forest reference level in terms of loss, gain and transitions among forest, cocoa agroforestry, cassava, maize, settlement and others in the Kloto district (Togo) for REDD+ and sustainable forest and ...
• Potential storages and drivers of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen across river basin landscape: The case of Mo river basin (Togo) in West Africa 

  Diwediga, Badabate; Le, Quang Bao; Agodzo, Sampson; Wala, Kperkouma (Ecological Engineering, 2016)

  Quantification of carbon and nitrogen in soils in relation to ecological, landform and management factors over river basins is essential to understand landscape ecosystem functions and efforts to manage land restoration ...
• A Stochastic Weather Generator Model for Hydroclimatic Prevision in Urban Floods Risk Assessment in Abidjan District (Cote d’Ivoire) 

  Danumah, Jean Homian; Odai, Samuel Nii; Saley, Mahaman Bachir; Szarzynski, Joerg; Adjei, Kwaku; Kouame, Fernand Koffi (Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Management, 2016)

  Flood risk occurrence is very often related to heavy precipitation; and available future weather data is a potential source for long term flood risk prediction. The aim of this paper was to determine and analyze trends ...
• Local level impacts of climatic and non-climatic factors on agriculture and agricultural land-use dynamic in rural northern Ghana 

  Badmos, Biola K.; Villamor, Grace B.; Agodzo, Sampson K.; Odai, Samuel N.; Badmos, Olabisi S. (Journal of Tropical Geography, 2017)

  This study investigated the local level impacts of climatic and non-climatic factors on the agricultural land-use dynamic in rural northern Ghana. Data was collected by means of household questionnaires and interview. The ...
• Land Use Landcover Change Monitoring and Projection in the Dano Catchment, Southwest Burkina Faso 

  Okafor, Gloria C.; Annor, Thompson; Odai, Samuel N.; Larbi, Isaac (International Journal of Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS, 2020)

  Burkina Faso has long been experiencing intense land-use landcover changes (LULCC) which have resulted in widespread land degradation. Hence, the need to obtain LULC information for improved land-use planning and sustainable ...
• Land Use Land Cover Dynamics and Farmland Intensity Analysis at Ouahigouya Municipality of Burkina Faso, West Africa 

  Neya, Oble; Neya, Tiga; Abunyewa, Akwasi. A.; Zoungrana, Benewinde J.-B.; Tiendrebeogo, Hypolite; Dimobe, Kangbeni; Korahire, Joël Awouhidia (American Journal of Climate Change, 2020)

  Sahel zone has been reported as one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change, so serious attention must be paid to this zone by researchers and development actors who are interested in environmental-human dynamics ...
• Land Use and Land Cover Change in a Community-Managed Forest in South-Eastern Senegal Under a Formal Forest Management Regime 

  Faye, Laurice Codou; Sambou, Hyacinthe; Kyereh, Boateng; Sambou, Bienvenu (American Journal of Environmental Protection, 2016)

  While most studies of community forests in Senegal address issues in institutional and political arrangements for managing forests, this study was carried out to find out how these political and institutional changes ...
• Micro-level social vulnerability assessment towards climate change adaptation in semi-arid Ghana, West Africa 

  Badmos, Biola K.; Adenle, Ademola A.; Agodzo, Sampson K.; Villamor, Grace B.; Asare-Kyei, Daniel K.; Amadou, Laouali M.; Odai, Samuel N. (Environ Dev Sustain, 2017)

  This study determined the social vulnerability index (SoVI) of households to climate change impacts for three identified locations (upper, mid and lower) in the Vea catchment, semi-arid Ghana. This study adapted the ...
• Simulating agricultural land-use adaptation decisions to climate change: An empirical agent-based modelling in northern Ghana 

  Amadou, Mahamadou L.; Villamor, Grace B.; Kyei-Baffour, Nicholas (Agricultural Systems, 2017)

  In West Africa, the majority of regional climate projections for the region predict that the study area will become warmer and that precipitation patterns will be more erratic. The aim of this article is to examine local ...
• Evaluation of gap-filling methods for Landsat 7 ETM+ SLC-off image for LULC classification in a heterogeneous landscape of West Africa 

  Asare, Yaw Mensah; Forkuo, Eric Kwabena; Forkuor, Gerald; Thiel, Michael (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2019)

  The Landsat mission which has existed over five decades has remained at the forefront of providing consistent moderate spatial and temporal resolution optical images of the earth. The failure of the scan line corrector ...
• West African Sahelian cities as source of carbon stocks Evidence from Niger 

  Moussa, Soulé; Kyereh, Boateng; Tougiani, Abasse; Kuyah, Shem; Saadou, Mahamane (Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019)

  The need for sustainable cities under a changing climate calls for intensive research on the role of urban forests in climate change mitigation. This study estimated the carbon stocks and carbon emission factors in Niamey ...
• Subsistence farmer knowledge of strategies alleviating food insecurity in the context of climate change in the lower river region of the Gambia 

  Sonko, Ebrima; Florkowski, Wojciech J.; Agodzo, Sampson; Antwi-Agyei, Philip (# International Society for Plant Pathology and Springer Nature, 2020)

  Knowledge of strategies to improve farm household resilience to food insecurity and counter adverse weather events and poor resource endowment is a pre-requisite for implementing solutions fitting local conditions. This ...
• Carbon Sequestration Potential and Marketable Carbon Value of Smallholder Agroforestry Parklands Across Climatic Zones of Burkina Faso Current Status and Way Forward for REDD+ Implementation 

  Neya, Tiga; Abunyewa, Akwasi. A.; Neya, Oble; Zoungrana, Benewende J-B; Dimobe, Kangbeni; Tiendrebeogo, Hypolite; Magistro, John (Environmental Management, 2019-12)

  Agroforestry plays an important role in climate mitigation through atmospheric carbon removal by photosynthetic activity of tree. However, the carbon sequestration potential of smallholder’s agroforestry’s parklands is ...
• Assessment of the impact of climate change on the freshwater availability of Kaduna River basin, Nigeria 

  Okafor, Gloria C.; Ogbu, Kingsley N. (Journal of Water and Land Development, 2018)

  Changes in runoff trends have caused severe water shortages and ecological problems in agriculture and human well-being in Nigeria. Understanding the long-term (inter-annual to decadal) variations of water availability ...

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