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Social Vulnerability Assessment to Flood in Medina Gounass Dakar

Sané, Ousmane Diouf; Gaye, Amadou Thierno; Diakhaté, Moussa; Aziadekey, Mawuli (Journal of Geographic Information System, 2015-08)

This paper is about the assessment of social vulnerability (SV) as a critical component of comprehensive disaster risk assessment. This study was conducted in Medina Gounass Dakar, Senegal, to bring out evidence that ...
Quantitative Assessment of Vulnerability to Flood Hazards in Downstream Area of Mono Basin, South-Eastern Togo: Yoto District

Kissi, Abravi Essenam; Abbey, Georges Abbevi; Agboka, Komi; Egbendewe, Aklesso (Journal of Geographic Information System, 2015-12)

The population located along Mono River in the Yoto district faces great challenges in terms of repeated flood disasters in recent years. This paper aims at assessing the conditions which influence flood damage in the ...
Understanding Farmers’ Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change and Variability: The Case of the Maritime, Plateau and Savannah Regions of Togo

Gadédjisso-Tossou, Agossou (Agricultural Sciences, 2015-12)

Togolese agriculture is predominantly rain-fed and hence fundamentally dependent on the vagaries of weather. Thus, it is negatively affected by climate change. The present study assesses farmers’ perceptions and adaptation ...
Assessing the impact of climate change on smallholder farmers’ crop net revenue in Togo

Gadédjisso-Tossou, Agossou; Egbendewe, Aklesso Y. G.; Abbey, Georges A. (Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, 2016-07)

Abstract: This study employs a Ricardian modelling approach to measure the impact of climate change variables such as temperature and rainfalls on smallholder famers’ crop net revenue in Togo. The obtained results show ...
Critical Factors of Vulnerability That Enable Medina Gounass (Dakar/Senegal) to Adapt against Seasonal Flood Events

Sané, Ousmane Diouf; Gaye, Amadou Thierno; Diakhaté, Moussa; Aziadekey, Mawuli (Journal of Geographic Information System, 2016-08)

This paper focuses on people living in Medina Gounass where has been experiencing annually flood events during the rainy season. Besides the climatic conditions, the lack of formal amenity plan has led to the emergence ...
Impact Assessment of Flood Disaster on Livelihoods of Farmers in Selected Farming Communities in Oke Ogun Region of Oyo State

Okeleye, Sunday Opeyemi; Olorunfemi, Felix B.; Sogbedji, Jean Mianikpo; Aziadekey, Mawuli (International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, 2016-08)

Oke-Ogun Area of Oyo State, which is widely known as the food basket of South-Western Nigeria, is a flood prone area exacerbated by climate variability. Therefore, this study was carried out mainly to assess the impact of ...
Mapping urban residents’ vulnerability to heat in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Dongo, Kouassi; Kablan, Armand Ketcha Malan; Kouamé, Fernand Koffi (Climate and Development, 2017)

The land use/land cover of the district of Cocody in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, is under substantial pressure associated with ´fast urbanization. This study conducts a detailed analysis of the impact of the changing land ...
Facteurs de la recrudescence des crues et des inondations en Afrique : Cas du bassin du fleuve Niger au Bénin

Adjakpa, Tchékpo Théodore; Behanzin, Idelbert Dagbégnon; Ayena, Abraham Ayédon; Boguena, Toupta (Journal International Sciences et Technique de l’Eau et de l’Environnement, 2017-10)

Au cours des dernières décennies, les inondations enregistrées en Afrique de l’Ouest se sont accrues dans un contexte de baisse de la pluviométrie. La présente étude vise à analyser les facteurs de la recrudescence des ...
Vulnerability of farming communities to malaria in the Bole district, Ghana

Yao, Komlagan Mawuli Apélété; Obeng, Francis; Ntajal, Joshua; Tounou, Agbeko K.; Kone, Brama (Parasite Epidemiology and Control, 2018-07)

Malaria contributes substantially to the poor health situation in the northern region of Ghana, especially in the Bole district. This paper is an outcome of a study, which assessed the factors that influenced the ...
Potential of Deficit and Supplemental Irrigation under Climate Variability in Northern Togo,West Africa

Gadédjisso-Tossou, Agossou; Avellán, Tamara; Schütze, Niels (MDPI, 2018-12)

In the context of a growing population in West Africa and frequent yield losses due to erratic rainfall, it is necessary to improve stability and productivity of agricultural production systems, e.g., by introducing and ...
Statistical Analysis of Recent and Future Rainfall and Temperature Variability in the Mono RiverWatershed (Benin, Togo)

Lawin, Agnidé Emmanuel; Hounguè, Nina Rholan; Biaou, Chabi Angelbert; Badou, Djigbo Félicien (MDPI, 2019-01)

This paper assessed the current and mid-century trends in rainfall and temperature over the Mono River watershed. It considered observation data for the period 1981–2010 and projection data from the regional climate model ...
Urban Development and Sustainable Livelihoods of Communities Around Eleyele Wetland in Ibadan Nigeria

Oyedele, P.B.; Olorunfemi, F.B. (Global Scientific Journal, 2019-02)

Wetlands provide numerous ecosystem services supporting livelihoods of people around the world. However, in spite of these benefits, wetlands are continuously being degraded through over exploitation, poor management and ...
Mid-Century Climate Change Impacts on Ouémé River Discharge at Bonou Outlet (Benin)

Lawin, Agnidé Emmanuel; Hounguè, Rita; M’Po, Yèkambèssoun N’Tcha; Hounguè, Nina Rholan; Attogouinon, André; Afouda, Akambi Abel (MDPI, 2019-08)

This work focuses on impacts of climate change on Ouémé River discharge at Bonou outlet based on four global climate models (GCM) over Ouémé catchment from 1971 to 2050. Empirical quantile mapping method is used for bias ...
An Economic-Based Evaluation of Maize Production under Deficit and Supplemental Irrigation for Smallholder Farmers in Northern Togo, West Africa

Gadedjisso-Tossou, Agossou (MDPI, 2019-11)

While the world population is expected to reach 9 billion in 2050, inWest Africa, it will more than double. This situation will lead to a high demand for cereals in the region. At the same time, farmers are experiencing ...
Impact of irrigation strategies on maize (Zea mays L.) production in the savannah region of northern Togo (West Africa)

Gadédjisso-Tossou, Agossou; Avellán, Tamara; Schütze, Niels (Water SA, 2019-11)

In northern Togo where rainfed maize is one of the major crops grown, agriculture is subject to frequent yield losses due to erratic rainfall. To ensure food availability and improve agricultural productivity, it is ...
Climate change adaptation in Semi-Arid Ecosystems: A case study from Ghana

Yomo, Mawulolo; Villamor, Grace B.; Aziadekey, Mawuli; Olorunfemi, Felix; Mourad, Khaldoon A. (Climate Risk Management, 2019-12)

This paper investigated the role of local institutions in facilitating farm households’ response and adaptation to climate change impacts on their livelihood. A case study of adapting to drought events associated with ...
Vulnerability to coastal erosion in The Gambia: Empirical experience from Gunjur

Gomez, Muhammad Leroy Albert; Adelegan, Olatundun Janet; Ntajal, Joshua; Trawally, Dodou (International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2019-12)

Coastal erosion is a major challenge along the coast of The Gambia besides the increasing pressure from climate change. This poses tremendous influences on physical and the socio-economic vulnerability of the coastal c ...
Testing the Robustness of a Physically-Based Hydrological Model in Two Data Limited Inland Valley Catchments in Dano, Burkina Faso

Idrissou, Mouhamed; Diekkrüger, Bernd; Tischbein, Bernhard; Ibrahim, Boubacar; Yira, Yacouba; Steup, Gero; Poméon, Thomas (MDPI, 2020-07)

This study investigates the robustness of the physically-based hydrological model WaSiM (water balance and flow simulation model) for simulating hydrological processes in two data sparse small-scale inland valley catchments ...
Modeling the Impact of Climate and Land Use/Land Cover Change on Water Availability in an Inland Valley Catchment in Burkina Faso

Idrissou, Mouhamed; Diekkrüger, Bernd; Tischbein, Bernhard; Op de Hipt, Felix; Näschen, Kristian; Poméon, Thomas; Yira, Yacouba; Ibrahim, Boubacar (MDPI, 2022-01)

Water scarcity for smallholder farming in West Africa has led to the shift of cultivation from uplands to inland valleys. This study investigates the impacts of climate and land use/land cover (LULC) change on water ...
Coastline Dynamics Analysis in Dakar Region, Senegal from 1990 to 2040

Pouye, Ibrahima; Adjoussi, Dieudonné Pessièzoum; Ndione, Jacques André; Sall, Amadou; Adjaho, Kouami Dodji; Gomez, Muhammad Leroy Albert (American Journal of Climate Change, 2022-05)

In the context of climate change, the study of shoreline dynamics is a critical issue concerning economic losses in coastal countries. Therefore, since it is an important parameter to study the impacts of climate change ...

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