Pastoralism, farming and a changing climate in the Sahel region
This case study sheds light on the adverse impacts of climate change for pastoral livelihoods in the Sahel region, and the need for regional coordination to build resilience in the region.
CLIMAP portal: online climate tool to support Senegalese agricultural planning
A new online climate tool, the CLIMAP portal, has been developed to help support agricultural planning in Senegal.
Restoration of ecosystems in Chad
The initiative aims to promote the peaceful cohabitation between local and displaced communities based on joint rehabilitation of overexploited ecosystems.
Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters
BRACED is helping people become more resilient to climate extremes in South and Southeast Asia and in the African Sahel and its neighbouring countries.
VRC Case Study
This chapter summarizes the structure and utility of Vulnerability Reduction Credits and shows how VRCs are created and integrated into adaptations to heterogeneous climate risks.
Framing innovations for climate resilience for farmers in the Sahel
This paper examines innovative approaches that have been adopted in four BRACED projects to build resilience to current and future climate risks.
Framing innovations for climate resilience for farmers in the Sahel
This paper examines innovative approaches that have been adopted in four BRACED projects to build resilience to current and future climate risks.
Disasters and national economic resilience
This paper aims to provide an analysis of economic resilience at the national level, presenting broad changes in resilience to climate extremes over a 42 year period.
Formation et Implication des Jeunes dans la Résilience au Changement Climatique
Ce projet concerne un plaidoyer au décideurs politiques pour la formation et la mobilisation globale des jeunes autour des enjeux des changements climatiques et du developpement durable:
Land-based adaptation to global change: What drives soil and water conservation in western Africa?
Conservation of land resources is a promising strategy for sustainable agricultural intensification in order to adapt dryland farming systems to climate, market and other stresses. Go to abstract.
Monitoring for enhanced climate change adaptation in the Sahel
Describes an approach to climate change adaptation and outlines how ongoing community measurements of threates to water resources is used to enhance adaptation effectiveness in 3 Sahelian countries.
Association Nodde Nooto
Help farmer's organizations and all Sahelian private organizations to emerge and to look for approaches and strategies that would improve the positive impact of development on people.
Senegal
Map of Senegal, source CIA factbook 2009
Most of Senegal has a typically tropical climate, but the northern regions lie in the Sahel. Senegal has a varied underlying...
Niger
Map of Niger, source CIA factbook 2009
Niger has a Sahelian climate with rainfall that varies greatly both on an inter-annual basis, and also...
ACCCA Niger and Tunisia
The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) member states are located within the Sahalian zone in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid dry regions with primarily agrarian economies. Stresses within...
