Combined application of biochar and nitrogen (N) fertilizer could offer opportunities to increase rice yield and reduce methane emissions from paddy fields. However, this strategy may increase nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, ...

Mitigating the global climate crisis and its consequences, such as more frequent and severe droughts, is one of the major challenges for future agriculture. Therefore, identifying land use systems and management practices ...

Family farms play an important role in food security and nutrition in West Africa. Family farms are rapidly changing and face many constraints. Thus, characterizing them is necessary for policy purposes. This study aimed ...

In Burkina Faso, agriculture is facing three major constraints. Firstly, the extreme events of climate change such as drought spells and temperature increases. Secondly, soil erosion and low soil fertility. Third, the weak ...

Climate change, an effective driver of unprecedented seasonal droughts, is greatly affecting rice production in Africa by threatening food security and safety. Rice, one of the major staple crops on the continent, can ...

Protected forest areas and their neighboring communities in Burkina Faso are facing numerous challenges related to climate change, climate variability, and human impact, without a good understanding of the relationship ...

This study analyzed the resilience to food insecurity of rural households in the Senegalese Groundnut Basin in response to climate-related risks. Cross-sectional data from the National Food Security, Nutrition, and Resilience ...

A great deal of research has shown that climate change is one of the current threats to pollinators. It has a significant influence on other strictly related factors, such as diseases and predators, causing the weakening ...

In the context of recurrent extreme climate events in Niger, adaptation policies promote climate services (CS) to support climate risk management by strengthening institutional and CS capacity. However, the constant ...

Flood risk management in The Gambia faces significant challenges due to the increasing impacts of climate-related disasters, requesting innovative approaches that integrate both Indigenous knowledge (IK) and scientific ...