Authors
Sabine Douxchamps, Mark T Van Wijk, Silvia Silvestri, Abdoulaye S Moussa, Carlos Quiros, Ndèye Yacine B Ndour, Saaka Buah, Léopold Somé, Mario Herrero, Patricia Kristjanson, Mathieu Ouedraogo, Philip K Thornton, Piet Van Asten, Robert Zougmoré, Mariana C Rufino
Publication date
2016/6
Journal
Regional Environmental Change
Volume
16
Pages
1305-1317
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Description
Adaptation strategies to reduce smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climate variability and seasonality are needed given the frequency of extreme weather events predicted to increase during the next decades in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in West Africa. We explored the linkages between selected agricultural adaptation strategies (crop diversity, soil and water conservation, trees on farm, small ruminants, improved crop varieties, fertilizers), food security, farm household characteristics and farm productivity in three contrasting agro-ecological sites in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana and Senegal). Differences in land area per capita and land productivity largely explained the variation in food security across sites. Based on land size and market orientation, four household types were distinguished (subsistence, diversified, extensive, intensified), with contrasting levels of food security and agricultural …
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S Douxchamps, MT Van Wijk, S Silvestri, AS Moussa… - Regional Environmental Change, 2016