Land degradation along a climatic gradient in Mali: Farmers' perceptions of causes and impacts

Touré, Ibrahim; Larjavaara, Markku; Savadogo, Patrice; Bayala, Jules; Yirdaw, Eshetu; Diakité, A.

doi:10.1002/ldr.3683

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“…We conducted the widely used Mann-Kendall (MK) test method (Akinyemi, Ghazaryan, & Dubovyk, 2020;Gichenje & Godinho, 2018;Touré et al, 2020) to test the significance of the long-term trends in time series. In the MK trend test, the original hypothesis H o is that there are no trends; the alternative hypothesis is that there is a trend that could either be negative, positive, or nonnull (Mann, 1945).…”

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Divergent processes and trends of desertification in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia

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Desertification and the expansion of deserts are regarded as a major threat to human livelihoods and ecosystem services, as well as achieving Sustainable Development Goals. Humans have been recognized as significant agents in the expansion of desert-like conditions, through the agency of desertification/land degradation, and through contributions to global climate change. Yet, how desertification changes and whether human or climate change drives these processes and trends over the whole Mongolia Plateau is still not clear. Here we first use MODIS data for 2000-2019 to assess the long-term vegetation changes across the Mongolian Plateau, both in Inner Mongolia of PR China and the Mongolian People's Republic. We then appied a General Linear Model to analyze the additional climate and human attribute data sets to explore relationships between the observed desert extent reduction and their potential drivers. Results show that from 2000-2019, desert extent declined by over 7%, comprised of an almost 11% reduction in Inner Mongolia and 5% reduction in Mongolia, and a reduction in the degree of desert conditions, as measured by vegetation cover grades, across the whole region (37.5% decline -one grade in PR China, 28.75% in Mongolia). The majority of desert area reduction occurs in the northern and eastern areas of the Mongolia Plateau. We found that the main drivers of changing desert extent is not because of a reduction in human pressures on the land, but an increasing trend of both precipitation and temperature, which explains over 75% of all the observed changes. Besides, urbanization, and a reduction of population pressures on the land, contribute to most of the remaining changes. Our results suggest that although the climate has been the primary driver of changing desert area and severity, human interventions have played an important role, although the way it intervenes and the intensity varies in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia. Human's active response to land degradation in the desert contributes to more land restoration in Inner Mongolia than in Mongolia.

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Divergent processes and trends of desertification in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia

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“…We retrieved studies on disasters including droughts (Ndenyele and Badurdeen, 2012; Quandt, 2019), health crises (Davies and Bennett, 2016; Peacock et al, 2008), post-conflict situations and displacements (Ajayi, 2020; Borer, 2009; Stark et al, 2010), and war and armed conflict (Jacobson, 1999; Miller and Moskos, 1995; Sideris, 2003). Some of the papers involve crisis situations with no clearly identified intervention or external humanitarian actor (Hollander, 2014; Touré et al, 2020). Our dataset also includes theoretical engagements by scholars on the concepts of gender and humanitarian aid with regards to Africa.…”

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Systematic Review of Gender and Humanitarian Situations Across Africa

Nwoke

Cochrane

2022

Africa Spectrum

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For decades, as evidenced in programming and research, the humanitarian community has recognised gender equality and equity as integral to effective programming and response. Drawing upon ninety-nine publications indexed on the Web of Science and Google Scholar, this paper explores available evidence on gender and crisis settings in Africa to synthesise and critically analyse what is being learned. We found that limited research and programming have explicitly aimed to have gender transformative impacts, and those that do fail to adequately declare or reflect on the biases and intricacies of aiming to transform social norms in complex sociocultural contexts. Additionally, this review examines the trend of the body of research, highlighting the affiliation of authors and the geographical areas of focus. Evidence shows that research in this area is dominated by scholars affiliated with institutions in the Global North, raising questions relating to knowledge production and epistemic injustice in Africa.

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“…There were gender determinants of beliefs about water pollution in Burkina Faso, for example, where women expressed a strong belief that pesticides cause deterioration of water quality (Diendéré et al, 2018). However, based on a study of a forested area in Kenya's rangelands, it appears as though interrogations of the nature of gendered relationships with land use have not always been simple (Westervelt, 2018); and perceptions of land degradation in Mali do not show gendered differences (Touré et al, 2020).…”

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A review of gender in agricultural and pastoral livelihoods based on selected countries in west and east Africa

Vincent

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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This scoping paper presents the results of a review of the landscape of research on gender and agricultural and pastoral livelihoods in select countries in west and east Africa (Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, and Uganda) published over 5 years (January 2016–March 2021). A keyword search of the Scopus database gave rise to an ultimate dataset of 169 papers which were coded for geographical location, approaches to gender, and theme based on inductive identification of clusters of research. There has been an increase in the number of published papers but there is an uneven geographical distribution of research. Studies vary in the way they treat gender: with an almost even split between modeling-based studies, where gender is one of many variables to be correlated with, or to determine, an outcome (e.g., poverty—for example, as a dummy variable in regressions); and studies where the expressed aim is to look at gender differences, whether through the gender of an individual or the gender of a household head. Clusters of papers look at gender differences in assets, health, perceptions of environmental degradation, agricultural perceptions and outcomes, and climate change perceptions, vulnerability, and adaptation. There is also a number of papers exploring women's empowerment, including intra-household decision making. Intersectional approaches have been employed both through modeling studies and through more in-depth qualitative studies that are able to trace changes in identity over time, and the implications therein. The household and household headship have remained common entry points and units of analysis, despite known critiques. The results highlight a need to address geographical gaps in gender research, expand the evidence base of intersectional approaches, explore other aspects of social inequality, and expand more innovative methodological studies.

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Land degradation along a climatic gradient in Mali: Farmers' perceptions of causes and impacts

Cited by 13 publications

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Divergent processes and trends of desertification in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia

Divergent processes and trends of desertification in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia

Systematic Review of Gender and Humanitarian Situations Across Africa

A review of gender in agricultural and pastoral livelihoods based on selected countries in west and east Africa

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