Impacts of Climate Change on Livestock Husbandry and Adaptation Options in the Arid Sahel Belt of West Africa: Evidence from a Baseline Survey

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abayomi Samuel Oyekale
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Baseline Survey ◽  
Adaptation Options ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change ◽  
Livestock Husbandry

scholarly journals Impacts of climate change adaptation options on soil functions: A review of European case-studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 2378-2389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Hamidov ◽  
Katharina Helming ◽  
Gianni Bellocchi ◽  
Waldemar Bojar ◽  
Tommy Dalgaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Soil Functions ◽  
Adaptation Options ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

scholarly journals Principles and process for developing participatory adaptation pathways in the primary industries

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Cradock-Henry ◽  
Paula Blackett ◽  
Justin Connolly ◽  
Bob Frame ◽  
Edmar Teixeira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Multiple Data ◽  
Methodological Advance ◽  
Adaptation Options ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Adaptation pathways is an approach to identify, assess, and sequence climate change adaptation options over time, linking decisions to critical signals and triggers derived from scenarios of future conditions. However, conceptual differences in their development can hinder methodological advance and create a disconnect between those applying pathways approaches and the wider community of practitioners undertaking vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation assessments. Here, we contribute to close these gaps, advancing principles, and processes that may be used to guide the trajectory for adaptation pathways, without having to rely on data-rich or resource-intensive methods. To achieve this, concepts and practices from the broad pathways literature is combined with our own experience in developing adaptation pathways for primary industries facing the combined impacts of climate change and other, nonclimatic stressors. Each stage is guided by a goal and tools to facilitate discussions and produce feasible pathways. We illustrate the process with a case study from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, involving multiple data sources and methods in two catchments. Resulting guidelines and empirical examples are consistent with principles of adaptive management and planning and can provide a template for developing local-, regional- or issue-specific pathways elsewhere and enrich the diversity of vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation assessment practice.

Introducing the beta version of ISIpedia, the open climate-impacts encyclopaedia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burcu Yesil ◽  
Quentin Lejeune ◽  
Inga Menke ◽  
Kaylin Lee ◽  
Barbara Templ ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Climate Services ◽  
Beta Version ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

<p>Despite the existing ample amount of scientific knowledge on the impacts of climate change, this information is often not conveyed in a way that is relevant and useful to decision makers. If designed correctly, climate services can bridge the gap between the knowledge providers and users. The ISIpedia project aims at developing an online encyclopedia  that provides policy-relevant, user-driven climate impact information based on the data and scientific knowledge generated by the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Inter-comparison Project (ISIMIP,) community. In order to ensure that the information provided is accessible and understandable, ISIpedia has facilitated a dialogue between modellers and stakeholders through a number of stakeholder engagement activities.</p><p> </p><p>The ISIpedia portal will deliver national- and global- level assessments of impacts of climate change across different sectors to the identified end-users that range from climate adaptation planners (e.g. involved in National Adaptation Plans) and practitioners, regional knowledge hubs, trans- and interdisciplinary scientists to regional climate experts from the private and public sectors. The portal is also characterised by an intuitive and user-friendly interface for better dissemination and application of this knowledge.</p><p> </p><p>Through an interactive exploration of the ISIpedia portal, during this session we will not only introduce the beta version of ISIpedia but also discuss in detail how our stakeholder engagement processes have shaped the portal’s current functionalities and its design. More specifically, the audience will get a chance to create country-specific climate impact assessments and test the legibility of the content, which includes interactive graphs and maps as well as method descriptions. We will also explore how different inter-sectoral indicators, some of which were derived from our workshops in Eastern Europe (Poland, November 2018) and West Africa (Burkina Faso, February 2019), can be applied to managing climate risks, vulnerabilities and planning adaptation and/or larger political contexts, such as the Sustainable Development Goals or Disaster Risk Reduction and what new indicators can be developed. Additionally, we will present other functional and design features, such as the glossary, data download functions and news, that we identified as added values to the portal during diverse stakeholder engagement activities.</p><p> </p><p>The inputs gathered from the EGU conference, along with the ones from the planned feedback workshops in Southeast Asia (April 2020), Eastern Europe (June 2020) and West Africa (October 2020), will be taken into account for further improvement of the portal until its final release in the fall of 2020. Furthermore, a reflection on the successes and challenges of our co-development process will be shared.</p>

Using general circulation model outputs to assess impacts of climate change on runoff for large hydrological catchments in West Africa

2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. ARDOIN-BARDIN ◽  
A. DEZETTER ◽  
E. SERVAT ◽  
J. E. PATUREL ◽  
G. MAHÉ ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
West Africa ◽  
General Circulation Model ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Circulation Model ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

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

scholarly journals Utilizing Process-Based Modeling to Assess the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields and Adaptation Options in the Niger River Basin, West Africa

Agronomy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uvirkaa Akumaga ◽  
Aondover Tarhule ◽  
Claudio Piani ◽  
Bouba Traore ◽  
Ado Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
West Africa ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Impact Of Climate Change ◽  
Niger River ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Adaptation Options

scholarly journals Adaptation of Seaweed Farmers in Zanzibar to the Impacts of Climate Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-28
Author(s):  
Georgia de Jong Cleyndert ◽  
Rebecca Newman ◽  
Cecile Brugere ◽  
Aida Cuni-Sanchez ◽  
Robert Marchant
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Seaweed Farming ◽  
Alternative Livelihood ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Adaptation Method ◽  
Adaptation Options ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

AbstractSeaweed farming is an important alternative livelihood activity that has been heralded as a development success story. It has advanced women’s empowerment and economic liberation in coastal communities in Zanzibar, despite recent declines in its production. Using data from 36 semistructured interviews, we explore the impacts of climate change on seaweed farming in Zanzibar and the coping and adaptation strategies available to farmers. Interviews reveal that climatic changes observed in Zanzibar are characterized by increased temperatures, increased winds, and irregular rainfall, and these changes have negatively affected coastal seaweed farming yields and quality. Combined with economic challenges, these environmental stressors are threatening the sustainability of seaweed farming and the wider development impacts that have been gained over the past decades. Establishing seaweed farms in deeper water, using new technologies, could be an adaptation method to overcome rising temperatures; however, there are significant socioeconomic barriers for this to happen. For example, women lack access to boats and the ability to swim. Adaptation options to the increasing impacts of climate change will be possible only with institutional support, significant investment, and through the empowerment of women and the participation local communities.

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