Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for crops in West Africa: a systematic review

TW Carr, S Mkuhlani, AC Segnon, Z Ali… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Agriculture in West Africa faces the challenge of meeting the rising demand for food
as national incomes and populations increase while production becomes more uncertain …

Millets for food security in the context of climate change: A review

R Saxena, SK Vanga, J Wang, V Orsat, V Raghavan - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
A growing population means an ever-increasing demand for food. This global concern has
led to antagonism over resources such as water and soil. Climate change can directly …

Impacts of 1.5 C global warming on natural and human systems

O Hoegh Guldberg, D Jacob, M Taylor, M Bindi… - 2018 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
This Report responds to the invitation for IPCC?... to provide a Special Report in 2018 on the
impacts of global warming of 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels and related global …

Evidence of crop production losses in West Africa due to historical global warming in two crop models

B Sultan, D Defrance, T Iizumi - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Achieving food security goals in West Africa will depend on the capacity of the agricultural
sector to feed the rapidly growing population and to moderate the adverse impacts of climate …

What can we know about future precipitation in Africa? Robustness, significance and added value of projections from a large ensemble of regional climate models

A Dosio, RG Jones, C Jack, C Lennard, G Nikulin… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
We employ a large ensemble of Regional Climate Models (RCMs) from the COordinated
Regional-climate Downscaling EXperiment to explore two questions:(1) what can we know …

Extreme climate events in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for improving agricultural technology transfer to enhance adaptive capacity

A Ayanlade, A Oluwaranti, OS Ayanlade, M Borderon… - Climate Services, 2022 - Elsevier
This study seeks to provide a critical overview of the existing evidence on extreme climate
events and the adaptation options of the affected population in order to help scholars …

Global wheat production with 1.5 and 2.0° C above pre‐industrial warming

B Liu, P Martre, F Ewert, JR Porter… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Efforts to limit global warming to below 2° C in relation to the pre‐industrial level are under
way, in accordance with the 2015 Paris Agreement. However, most impact research on …

Future climate change significantly alters interannual wheat yield variability over half of harvested areas

W Liu, T Ye, J Jägermeyr, C Müller… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate change affects the spatial and temporal distribution of crop yields, which can
critically impair food security across scales. A number of previous studies have assessed the …

Adaptive introgression: an untapped evolutionary mechanism for crop adaptation

C Burgarella, A Barnaud, NA Kane… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Global environmental changes strongly impact wild and domesticated species biology and
their associated ecosystem services. For crops, global warming has led to significant …

Impacts of 1.5 versus 2.0 C on cereal yields in the West African Sudan Savanna

B Faye, H Webber, JB Naab… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
To reduce the risks of climate change, governments agreed in the Paris Agreement to limit
global temperature rise to less than 2.0 C above pre-industrial levels, with the ambition to …