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Climate Prediction and Agriculture: What Is Different about Sudano-Sahelian West Africa?

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Climate Prediction and Agriculture

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Recurrent drought conditions that prevailed in the Sahel region of West Africa during the 1970s and 1980s have seriously challenged the resiliency of ecosystems and the adaptive capacity of human societies (IPCC 2001). This has triggered increased attention from the scientific community, resulting in a significant augmentation in climate-related publications and allowing for a better understanding of the complex regional and local climates.

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  1. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), P.O. Box 320, Bamako, Mali

    P. C. S. Traoré

  2. Institut d’Economie Rurale (IER), P.O. Box 258, Bamako, Mali

    M. Kouressy

  3. Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), P.O. Box 1813, Bamako, Mali

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  4. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), P.O. Box 12404, Niamey, Niger

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    S. B. Traoré

  6. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), P.O. Box 39063, Nairobi, Kenya

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Traoré, P.C.S. et al. (2007). Climate Prediction and Agriculture: What Is Different about Sudano-Sahelian West Africa?. In: Sivakumar, M.V.K., Hansen, J. (eds) Climate Prediction and Agriculture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44650-7_19

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