As the climate of the West African Sahel changes due to global warming, agricultural systems are facing stress due to the excess water induced by extreme rain events. Our first experiment, implemented in the suburbs of ...
Cassava growth in Côte d’Ivoire is affected by the variation of climatic parameters and Cassava Bacterial Blight (CBB). CBB is a destructive disease influenced by climatic conditions which can lead to 100 % yield loss. For ...
Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.), the world’s sixth most important cereal crop is known as a climate smart crop due to its tolerance to drought, heat, soil salinity, low soil fertility, high nutritive and high capacity ...
Deficit Irrigation (DI) consists to provide the crop with water below its daily need (ETc) according to the sensitivity of its growth stages. The objective of this study was : (i) to assess the factors explaining maize ...
Agricultural production particularly rice production is one of the priority areas for vision 2020 agricultural and natural resources policy document for the Gambia. An agronomic trial was conducted in 2017 and 2018 at the ...
Several maize breeding programs use open-pollinated varieties (OPVs) as a source of genetic variability and favourable alleles of target traits. Drought tolerant and provitamin A (PVA) maize hybrids are needed to address ...
As the climate of the West African Sahel changes due to global warming, agricultural systems are facing stress due to the excess water induced by extreme rain events. Our first experiment, implemented in the suburbs of ...
Climate change and/or climate variability has heightened the frequency and re-occurrence of climate related disasters, particularly floods in the past two decades globally. This is likely to increase vulnerabilities in ...
The principal objective of this research is to investigate in the context of climate change, the impact of the Drought Tolerant Maize (DTM) innovations on economic performance and welfare in Be ninnin. In this study, we ...
African farmers need to better adapt to climate variability. Many of them underwent a terrible famine in the seventies and still face food insecurity. In this study we aim to investigate the situation of Malian farmers of ...
This thesis analyses the transition towards green energy and its implication on the
wellbeing of households and on sustainable development targets of the Gambia.
Three specific objectives were analysed from secondary ...
The objective of this research is to showcase some practices of green entrepreneurship in Togo. Thus, a choice modelling approach is applied in this dissertation in order to estimate firms’ willingness to carry out green ...
This research examined the understanding of climate finance in West Africa and how countries can benefit to build resilience and cope with the consequences of climate change since this issue is projected to worsen their ...
This study analysed both inter- and intra-households’ gender inequalities (climate vulnerability, productivity and welfare) and the effects of climate adaptation through livelihood diversification on gender inequalities ...
Climate changes talks regularly underline that developing countries’ agriculture could play a stronger role in greenhouse gases (GHG) mitigation strategies and benefit from market internalization of emission reductions or ...
Forests play a key role in the environmental balance and act as a livelihood provider for people especially for the surrounding population. Côte d'Ivoire located in West Africa, has a high level of biodiversity, mainly on ...
This study focuses on the influence of climate and land use/land cover (LULC) change on groundwater recharge over the Continental Terminal catchment (Abidjan aquifer) in the context of urbanization and population growth. ...
In spite of its low emission of carbon dioxide Africa, specifically Sub-Saharan Africa is the most vulnerable to the effect of climate change. Many countries have already moved toward water scarcity and Burkina-Faso is ...
A good understanding of climate change, land-use change and dam management impacts on water balance components must enable the development of sustainable water resources strategies in West Africa. The Mono River Basin (MRB) ...
The Niger River is the sole permanent surface water used for agriculture and drinking water supply for the area of Niamey, Niger, West Africa. Given that the water distribution network does not cover the entire populated ...