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O Mertz, C Mbow, A Reenberg, A Diouf - Environmental management, 2009 - Springer

Farmers' perceptions of climate change and agricultural adaptation strategies in rural Sahel.

Cultural Transformation in the Geoscience Community AND Program Evaluation

Mbow, Mertz

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Farmers in the Sahel have always been facing climatic variability at intra-and inter-annual and decadal time scales. While coping and adaptation strategies have traditionally included crop diversification, mobility, livelihood diversification, and migration, singling out climate as a direct driver of changes is not so simple. Using focus group interviews and a household survey, this study analyzes the perceptions of climate change and the strategies for coping and adaptation by sedentary farmers in the savanna zone of central Senegal. Households …

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