Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change and Agricultural Adaptation in Burkina Faso

Alvar‐Beltrán, Jorge; Dao, Abdalla; Marta, Anna Dalla; Heureux, Ana; Sanou, Josias; Orlandini, Simone

doi:10.3390/atmos11080827

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“…Hence, the present study validated the GDD equation (T base equal to 3°C for quinoa) elaborated by Jacobsen and Bach (1998) and used in AquaCrop. In addition, field experiments conducted in the Sahel, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (Breidy, 2015;CNRADA, 2015;Djamal, 2015;Hassan, 2015;Saeed, 2015;Alvar-Beltrán et al, 2019b;Dao et al, 2020a) frequently reported the effect of heat stress on quinoa. The default values on AquaCrop for Bolivia showed that calibrated air temperature stress values in AquaCrop were too high (40°C) for the genotype in study (cv.…”

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The resilience of quinoa to drought stress conditions makes the crop suitable for the Sahel region. It can support grain production during the dry season and be considered an alternative crop for alleviating food insecurity within the region. Given the importance of this crop outside the indigenous cultivation area, there is a requisite for the development of crop models to facilitate further expansion of quinoa along the Sahel region. Crop water models are of interest due to increasing pressure on water resources, and the portrayal of irrigation scheduling as the best option for water optimisation. The AquaCrop model was selected, as this model simulates crop development and derives both optimal frequencies and net applications of irrigation. Due to limited water resources in the region, different irrigation regimes (full irrigation (FI), progressive drought (PD), deficit irrigation (DI) and extreme deficit irrigation (EDI)) were proposed for analysing yield and biomass responses to water stress conditions. Results suggest that yields were stabilised at around 1.0 Mg ha-1 under PD, thereby prioritising maximum water productivity rather than maximum yields. Water optimisation was attained by watering less at a suggested 310 mm, but with more frequent irrigation events, 28 rather than 20.

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“…Changes in the onset/offset of the rainy season are also being observed. Emphasis on the impact of onset delay has been shown, thereby shortening the growing season of rainfed crops (Biasutti and Sobel, 2009;Alvar-Beltrán et al, 2020a).…”

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“…According to the field research, respondents generally indicated that they perceive climate change, but only 41% of them have adaptive measures for future climate change in Yuanping. Education level and agricultural training play an important role in the adaptation behavior of farmers in developing countries [52][53][54]. Therefore, institutional adaptation is the focus of climate change adaptive management in the agricultural sector.…”

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Climate Change and Adaptive Management: Case Study in Agriculture, Forestry and Pastoral Areas

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2021

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Adaptive management has very important practical significance for climate change adaptation and will play a great role in climate change risk mitigation in agricultural, forestry, and pastoral areas of China. Based on the theory of adaptive management, this paper selects Yuanping City from Shanxi Province, Qingyuan County from Liaoning Province, and Kulun Banner from Inner Mongolia as representative cases in agricultural, forestry, and pastoral areas, respectively, to carry out field research, and it uses 1970–2017 meteorological station data to apply vulnerability assessment and climate element change trend analysis, combined with the meteorological hazards data, and explore the adaptive management measures for agricultural, forestry, and pastoral areas in China. The conclusions are as follows: (1) the vulnerability of precipitation in Yuanping is high, the increase in temperature and drought and floods are the most important factors affecting crop yields in agricultural areas, and the key to climate change adaptive management lies in the awareness of farmers of climate change risks and the institutional guarantee of the government; (2) Qingyuan has high temperature vulnerability, and the forest areas have relatively strong adaptive capacity to climate change, but climate change will significantly affect the forest’s carbon sequestration function, and the focus of climate change adaptive management in the forestry sector is on engineering and technology field practices; (3) Kulun has the highest vulnerability to climate change, the frequent meteorological disasters seriously impact livestock development, and climate change adaptive management in pastoral areas relies on the participation of pastoralists’ local knowledge and also needs the support of the government and society.

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“…It is cultivated as the most resilient crop [5,6] and the only cereal crop that gives reliable yield under severe abiotic stresses that limit crop production due to erratic rainfall, drought, low soil fertility, high salinity, low pH, and high temperature [7]. The Sahel is regarded as a hotspot for climate change threats and risk to weather-dependent sectors such as agriculture [8,9].…”

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Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Seedlings Transplanting as Climate Adaptation Option for Smallholder Farmers in Niger

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Pearl millet is the most widely grown cereal crop in the arid and semi-arid regions of Africa, and in Niger in particular. To determine an optimized management strategy for smallholder farmers in southern Niger to cope with crop production failure and improve cropping performance in the context of climate change and variability, multi-site trials were conducted to evaluate the impacts of transplanting on pearl millet growth and productivity. Eight treatments viz. T1-0NPK (100% transplanting without NPK), T1-NPK (100% transplanting + NPK), T2-0NPK (100% transplanting of empty hills without NPK), T2-NPK (100% transplanting of empty hills + NPK), T3-0NPK (50% transplanting of empty hills without NPK), T3-NPK (50% transplanting of empty hills + NPK), T4-0NPK (farmer practice without NPK), and T4-NPK (farmer practice + NPK) were included in the experiment. Compared to farmer practice, transplanting significantly reduced time to tillering, flowering, and maturity stages by 15%, 27%, and 11%, respectively. The results also revealed that T1-NPK significantly increased panicle weight, total biomass, grain yield, and plant height by 40%, 38%, 27%, and 23%, respectively. Farmers’ evaluations of the experiments supported these findings, indicating three substantial advantages of transplanting, including higher yield (37.50% of responses), larger, more vigorous and more panicles (34.17% of responses), and good tillering (28.33% of responses). An economic profitability analysis of the system revealed that biomass gain (XOF 359,387/ha) and grain gain (XOF 324,388/ha) increased by 34% and 22%, respectively, with T1-NPK. Therefore, it can be inferred that transplanting is a promising strategy for adapting millet cultivation to climate change and variability in southern Niger.

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Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change and Agricultural Adaptation in Burkina Faso

Cited by 32 publications

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AquaCrop parametrisation for quinoa in arid environments

AquaCrop parametrisation for quinoa in arid environments

Climate Change and Adaptive Management: Case Study in Agriculture, Forestry and Pastoral Areas

Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Seedlings Transplanting as Climate Adaptation Option for Smallholder Farmers in Niger

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