Unstacking high temporal resolution meteorological data for multidimensional analysis of climate variability in southern Burkina Faso

Borona, Pius; Mbow, Cheikh; Ouédraogo, Issa

doi:10.1080/00167223.2016.1212668

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“…The latter is projected to rise for nearly three quarters (75%) of the country and over 84% of the year, respectively. These indices have already been changing in the past and are projected to become worse, as also confirmed by other studies (Borona et al, 2016;Kima et al, 2015).…”

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Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies: An assessment on sorghum for Burkina Faso

Arumugam

Chemura

Aschenbrenner

et al. 2023

European Journal of Agronomy

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Section: Projected Climatic Changes In Burkina Fasosupporting

confidence: 79%

Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies: An assessment on sorghum for Burkina Faso

Arumugam

Chemura

Aschenbrenner

et al. 2023

European Journal of Agronomy

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“…50 out of 217) address the relationships between agriculture and climate change in Burkina Faso or even single regions in the country e.g. north (Hänke et al, 2016;Kima et al, 2014;Rigolot et al, 2017), south (Borona et al, 2016;Dimobe et al, 2018), south-west (Fonta et al, 2015;Sanfo et al, 2017) and south-east (Mande et al, 2015).…”

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Climate change and agriculture in Burkina Faso

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2021

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The impacts of climate change (CC) are expected to be higher in developing countries (e.g. Sub-Saharan Africa). However, these impacts will depend on agriculture development and resilience. Therefore, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted relationships between CC and agriculture in Burkina Faso (BF). A search performed in March 2020 on the Web of Science yielded 1,820 documents and 217 of them were included in the systematic review. The paper provides an overview on both bibliometrics (e.g. journals, authors, institutions) and topics addressed in the literature viz. agriculture subsectors, climate trends in BF, agriculture and CC mitigation (e.g. agriculture-related emissions, soil carbon sequestration), impacts of CC on agriculture (e.g. natural resources, crop suitability, yields, food security) as well as adaptation strategies. BF is experiencing CC as evidenced by warming and an increase in the occurrence of climate extremes. The literature focuses on crops, while animal husbandry and, especially, fisheries are often overlooked. Moreover, most of the documents deal with CC adaptation by the Burkinabe farmers, pastoralists and rural populations. Analysed adaptation options include conservation agriculture and climate-smart agriculture, irrigation, crop diversification, intensification, livelihoods diversification and migration. However, the focus is mainly on agricultural and individual responses, while livelihoods strategies such as diversification and migration are less frequently addressed. Further research is needed on the dual relation between agriculture and CC to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Research results are crucial to inform policies aimed at CC mitigation and/or adaptation in rural BF.

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“…Observation in changes in rainfall and temperature from gridded rainfall and temperature data Figures 2 and 3 demonstrate a characteristic inter-annual variation in rainfall with more years recording below the average values of the study period. Rainfall anomalies and seasonal average temperatures were computed using anomaly and temperature average equations as applied by Borona et al (2016).There was an increasing trend in mean temperatures for both the short and long seasons. Absolute values indicate the highest seasonal rainfall records were in the year 2006.…”

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Seasonal climate dynamics, perceptions and multiple risk adaptations: Lessons from Smallholder mixed agro ecosystems in Semi-arid Kenya

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Kiambi²,

Kung’u³

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J. Agric. Ext. Rural Dev

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Climate variability is frequently associated with instances of dry spells and droughts, which principally result from highly variable rainfall and increasing temperatures. In mixing agro ecosystems, these phenomena primarily affected crop and livestock practices of smallholder farmers through generating social, economic and environmental losses. Resulting water scarcity, in quality and quantity, at household and landscape level is likely to negatively affect major water dependent livelihoods. In the event of associated and perceived climate variability impacts, households in Wote area of Eastern Kenya at individual level institute adaptations to manage these impacts. The present study used semi structured questionnaires and a focus group discussion to populate household's perceptions and adaptation mechanisms. This study results revealed that households perceived that climatic change and associated impacts are getting more severe. These include instances of higher temperatures and more variable season onset and a wide range of ecosystem deterioration indicators including effects on land health and vegetative cover. Anomalies and means computed from Gridded 10 year rainfall and temperature records from the Climate Research Unit-University of East Anglia (CRU) partially demonstrate similarity to some of these observations. Sampled households employ a wide range of adaptations strategies, principally crop based practices such as cultivation of fast maturing crops and crop diversification. These practices aim at building resilience, taking advantage of new opportunities and can primarily reduce the unforeseen damage and losses resulting from extreme climatic events. Hence, emphasis should be given to crop-based strategies, value addition, forecast based action and financing and localization of water harvesting.

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Unstacking high temporal resolution meteorological data for multidimensional analysis of climate variability in southern Burkina Faso

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies: An assessment on sorghum for Burkina Faso

Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies: An assessment on sorghum for Burkina Faso

Climate change and agriculture in Burkina Faso

Seasonal climate dynamics, perceptions and multiple risk adaptations: Lessons from Smallholder mixed agro ecosystems in Semi-arid Kenya

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