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Jun 29, 2022 · The agriculture sector, which is one of the Sahel band’s priority development sectors, will have to face the risks inherent in climate change. In this chapter, the effects of temperature increase and changes in rainfall cycles on agricultural production are presented through a literature review.
Feb 25, 2020 · The largest proportions of croplands with greening trends were observed in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, and the largest proportions with browning trends were in Nigeria, The Gambia and Benin....
- Altaaf Mechiche-Alami, Abdulhakim M. Abdi
- 2020
Before the rise of trans-Atlantic trade, the valuable products of Africa’s more humid savanna and forest zones were traded toward the Sahel, which produced grain, meat, and leather. Some forestland goods, most notably gold, were then traded across the Sahara desert to the north.
Sep 21, 2020 · Where Climate Change Is Reality: Supporting Africa’s Sahel Pastoralists to Secure a Resilient Future. Pastoral livestock farming, a thousand-year-old eco-friendly tradition, supports more than 20 million people in the Sahel and provides numerous essential services for society.
Apr 28, 2022 · It unpacks that to avoid the impacts of climate change on cattle and family, the Fulani herders migrated to the Agogo area in Ghana in search of the favoring climate conditions. However, on arrival, resource stress and scarcity realities often ensued in confrontations and violent conflicts.
Dec 8, 2021 · In the 1970s and 1980s, the Sahel experienced recurrent drought and famine. Farmers and their development partners reacted to this crisis by developing climate-smart agricultural practices and changes in land use, including water-harvesting techniques to restore degraded land to productivity.
Sep 14, 2020 · Introduction. The UN general assembly recently declared 2021–2030 as the decade of ecosystem restoration. It aims to massively scale up the restoration of degraded and destroyed ecosystems to fight...
