Climate change vulnerability and adaptation of crop producers in sub-Saharan Africa: a review on concepts, approaches and methods

SB Bedeke - Environment, development and sustainability, 2023 - Springer
Climate change severely affects sub-Saharan African economies in several ways: increased
temperatures, erratic rainfall variability patterns, and recurrent droughts and floods. Such …

Drought influences on food insecurity in Africa: a systematic literature review

BS Ngcamu, F Chari - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2020 - mdpi.com
African countries continue to be prone to drought, caused mainly by unfavorable weather
patterns and climatic variations which have an adverse impact on rural households and …

Farmers' adaptation strategies to climate change and their implications in the Zou Department of South Benin

AMR Fadina, D Barjolle - Environments, 2018 - mdpi.com
Climate change is a global phenomenon. Its impact on agricultural activities in developing
countries has increased dramatically. Understanding how farmers perceive climate change …

Smallholder farmers' motivations for using Conservation Agriculture and the roles of yield, labour and soil fertility in decision making

B Lalani, P Dorward, G Holloway, E Wauters - Agricultural Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Conservation Agriculture (CA) has been widely promoted as an agro-ecological approach to
sustainable production intensification. Despite numerous initiatives promoting CA across …

Comparing climate change perceptions and meteorological data in rural West Africa to improve the understanding of household decisions to migrate

F De Longueville, P Ozer, F Gemenne, S Henry… - Climatic Change, 2020 - Springer
Largely dependent on rain-fed agriculture, the West African populations could be severely
impacted by climate change and variability. In this paper, we performed a literature review …

On farmers' perceptions of climate change and its nexus with climate data and adaptive capacity. A comprehensive review

S Ricart, A Castelletti, C Gandolfi - Environmental Research …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Farmers' perception of climate change is crucial in adaptation intention and process.
However, farmers' perceptions may not be timely, accurate and systematically consistent …

Climate change adaptation strategies and constraints in Northern Ghana: Evidence of farmers in Sissala West District

CJ Fagariba, S Song, SKG Soule Baoro - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Research findings indicate that most African countries are vulnerable to climate change as a
result of challenges such as poverty, weather extremes, and insufficient governmental …

Knowledge politics in participatory climate change adaptation research on agroecology in Malawi

RB Kerr, H Nyantakyi-Frimpong… - … Agriculture and Food …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Climate change is projected to have severe implications for smallholder agriculture in Africa,
with increased temperatures, increased drought and flooding occurrence, and increased …

Farmers' perceptions of severe climate risks and adaptation interventions in indigenous communities in northern Ghana

L Guodaar, A Kabila, K Afriyie, AY Segbefia… - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Perceptions of climate change are widely studied and documented. However,
understandings of conceptions and experiences of severe climate risks in indigenous …

Agricultural decision making and climate uncertainty in developing countries

KB Waldman, PM Todd, S Omar… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In situations of uncertainty, people often make decisions with heuristic shortcuts or decision
rules, rather than using computational or logical methods such as optimizing their behavior …