Assessing climate impacts and adaptation options for cereal systems in West Africa. [K-3330b-01]

However the small responses of the seven climate models to LULCC in West Africa are attributed in our study to: (i) the prescribed LULCC that can be underestimated in those

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Although there is a growing literature on the impact of climate change on crop productivity in tropical regions, it is difficult to provide a consistent assessment of future

As the objective of the thesis is to study the temporal and spatial variability of Surface Solar Radiation (SSR) over the South West Indian Ocean (SWIO) and over Reunion Island

Short duration varieties require lower temperature sums to reach flowering earlier, are in general associated with low grain yield (Akbar et al., 2008) but can be harvested early

In our simulations, the major effect of climate change on the yields of millet and sorghum in West Africa was yield losses induced by higher temperature leading to increased

A large dispersion is observed when using regional models to drive the crop model with simulated yield ranging from near 0 kg / ha (CLM- GKSS) to almost 630 kg / ha (RegCM-ICTP)

Results demonstrate that cultivars with a high yield potential and a short, nearly constant growth cycle, as pursued by most sorghum and millet breeders until recently to reduce