FAO, Aghrymet - a specialized institution of the Permanent Interstates Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) - and governmental partners from Mali, Niger, Côte d’Ivoire and the Gambia presented the preliminary results of the impact of climate change...

The West and Central African region is becoming highly vulnerable to climate change. Governments of the region are promoting small-scale irrigation to improve crop production and to increase the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change. In this context, FAO,...

Agriculture is the backbone of the Malian economy. However, the low productivity of the agricultural sector is one of the causes behind poverty in the country, which reaches 54 percent of the population in rural areas. Lack of infrastructure, particularly...

As part of the participatory assessment on the climate change impacts and adaptive capacity of different rural communities from Niger, members of 188 households from nine villages (Baramaka, Fachi, Falki, Gassafa, Gourjia, Koré Haoussa, Maggia Dogaraoua, Sabara, Soumarana) were interviewed....

In the Gambia, members of 221 households from Jahaly, Pacharr and Salikenni villages were interviewed in the framewrok of the participatory assessment on the climate change impacts and adaptive capacity of different rural communities.

The preliminary results of the assessment show...