scholarly journals Farmer Perceptions and Climate Change Adaptation in the West Africa Sudan Savannah: Reality Check in Dassari, Benin, and Dano, Burkina Faso

Climate ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Callo-Concha
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
The West ◽  
Farmer Perceptions ◽  
Reality Check

scholarly journals Envisioning Climate Change Adaptation Futures Using Storytelling Workshops

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6630
Author(s):  
Rachel Harcourt ◽  
Wändi Bruine de Bruin ◽  
Suraje Dessai ◽  
Andrea Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Adaptation Planning ◽  
The West ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Rebel Groups ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government

Engaging people in preparing for inevitable climate change may help them to improve their own safety and contribute to local and national adaptation objectives. However, existing research shows that individual engagement with adaptation is low. One contributing factor to this might be that public discourses on climate change often seems dominated by overly negative and seemingly pre-determined visions of the future. Futures thinking intends to counter this by re-presenting the future as choice contingent and inclusive of other possible and preferable outcomes. Here, we undertook storytelling workshops with participants from the West Yorkshire region of the U.K. They were asked to write fictional adaptation futures stories which: opened by detailing their imagined story world, moved to events that disrupted those worlds, provided a description of who responded and how and closed with outcomes and learnings from the experience. We found that many of the stories envisioned adaptation as a here-and-now phenomenon, and that good adaptation meant identifying and safeguarding things of most value. However, we also found notable differences as to whether the government, local community or rebel groups were imagined as leaders of the responsive actions, and as to whether good adaptation meant maintaining life as it had been before the disruptive events occurred or using the disruptive events as a catalyst for social change. We suggest that the creative futures storytelling method tested here could be gainfully applied to support adaptation planning across local, regional and national scales.

scholarly journals Institutional Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation in Burkina Faso: How could We Go around Them?

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Fiacre Basson ◽  
Djibril S. Dayamba ◽  
Joel Korahire ◽  
Jean M. Dipama ◽  
Francois Zougmore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Key Stakeholders

Despite the existence of a National Adaptation Plan to climate change (NAP) in Burkina Faso, operationalizing adaptation still face a number of challenges. The current study focused on identifying institutional barriers to the strategic objectives of climate change adaptation (CCA) using a literature review and semi-structured interviews conducted with key stakeholders / resource persons involved in the implementation of the NAP. The results revealed a weak collaboration between the NAP steering institution and the ministerial departments covered by the NAP. This situation, first, hampers the implementation of adaptation actions and secondly, the monitoring reporting and verification of adaptation initiatives. Further, the analysis revealed that lack of financial resources poses constraints to many actions that were to be taken by the steering institution and therefore creates poor ownership of the NAP by the main stakeholders that should be actively involved in the NAP process. To cope with the various constraints, it is necessary to have strong political support in many aspects. For instance, it was judged that institutionalizing the role of climate change (CC) focal point within the ministries and embedding NAP monitoring and evaluation (M&E) objectives and indicators with existing functional M&E systems in the sectorial ministries will ease CCA actions integration in operational plans, their implementation and documentation. Moreover, it is relevant to have a continuous capacity building plan to keep stakeholders updated on climate change issues as this will support them in their mandate of mainstreaming CC into ministerial operational plans and lead to optimal CCA implementation and monitoring.

Schistosomiasis among Farmers and Fisherman in the West Part of Burkina Faso (West Africa)

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 482-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Zongo ◽  
B.G. Kabre ◽  
J.N. Poda ◽  
D. Dianou
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
The West ◽  
West Part

Micro-level social vulnerability assessment towards climate change adaptation in semi-arid Ghana, West Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 2261-2279
Author(s):  
Biola K. Badmos ◽  
Ademola A. Adenle ◽  
Sampson K. Agodzo ◽  
Grace B. Villamor ◽  
Daniel K. Asare-Kyei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Semi Arid ◽  
Social Vulnerability Assessment

scholarly journals Adapting to the impacts of climate change in the sub-humid zone of Burkina Faso, West Africa: Perceptions of agro-pastoralists

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Agnes Kima ◽  
A. A. Okhimamhe ◽  
Andre Kiema ◽  
Nouhoun Zampaligre ◽  
Isaiah Sule
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Humid Zone ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change
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