Water scarcity is a growing challenge in semi-arid and sub-humid areas. There are over
2000 small reservoirs (SRs) with storage capacities of up to 1× 106 m3 across West Africa's …

This report investigates the dynamics of one of the most common agricultural water
management practices of sub-Saharan Africa, ie, small reservoirs. Small reservoirs dam …

Study region This study focused mainly on Burkina Faso in West Africa. Study focus This
study aims to identify environmental variables that best explain the geographic variations of …

A large part of the Sahel consists of endorheic hydrological systems, where reservoirs and
lakes capture surface runoff during the rainy season, making water available during the dry …

Abstract Small reservoirs in Burkina Faso are constructed for many purposes such as
domestic water uses, livestock watering and irrigated rice production downstream of the …

A major direct use of water from West African small reservoirs is irrigation. Analyzing the
performances of irrigated agriculture is therefore a useful way to measure the impact of small …

Abstract In West Africa, a shift in climate conditions since the 1970s is evidenced by a
decrease in average annual rainfall and an increase in temperatures between 1931–1960 …

In this paper, the climate and environmental datasets were processed by the scripts of
Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) and R to evaluate changes in climate parameters, vegetation …

Burkina Faso is actively pursuing the implementation of Integrated Water Resources
Management (IWRM) in its development plans. Several policy and institutional mechanisms …

In the arid areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, perennial challenges of water scarcity and food
insecurity are exacerbated by climate change and variability. The development of robust …