Climate change impact chains: a review of applications, challenges, and opportunities for climate risk and vulnerability assessments

L Menk, S Terzi, M Zebisch, E Rome… - Weather, Climate …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Shifting from effect-oriented toward cause-oriented and systemic approaches in sustainable
climate change adaptation requires a solid understanding of the climate-related and societal …

Try, try again: Lessons learned from success and failure in participatory modeling

EJ Sterling, M Zellner, KE Jenni, K Leong… - Elem Sci …, 2019 - online.ucpress.edu
Participatory Modeling (PM) is becoming increasingly common in environmental planning
and conservation, due in part to advances in cyberinfrastructure as well as to greater …

Coping with cereal production risks due to the vagaries of weather, labour shortages and input markets through management in southern Mali

EK Huet, M Adam, B Traore, KE Giller… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Production of cereals (maize, sorghum, millet) in southern Mali is challenged by several
hazards that affect yield and yield variability. The research aims to inform decision making …

Diversity in perception and management of farming risks in southern Mali

EK Huet, M Adam, KE Giller, K Descheemaeker - Agricultural Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
A deeper understanding of how smallholder farmers perceive and manage risks is crucial to
identify options that increase farmers' adaptive capacity. We investigated a broad range of …

Participatory causal loop mapping of the adoption of organic farming in Nigeria

JA Adebiyi, LS Olabisi - Environmental management, 2022 - Springer
Contrary to the expectations of promoters of organic agriculture, the adoption of the
technology by smallholder farmers in Africa has been low and slow, for reasons not well …

Systems thinking for water security

XK Polaine, R Dawson, CL Walsh… - Civil Engineering and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Water security covers a wide range of issues and risks to people, the natural and built
environment, the economy, and interactions between these. This breadth creates an …

[HTML][HTML] Scientific agenda for climate risk and impact assessment of West African cropping systems

M Diancoumba, D MacCarthy, H Webber, F Akinseye… - Global Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rainfed agriculture is at the centre of many West African economies and a key livelihood
strategy in the region. Highly variable rainfall patterns lead to a situation in which farmers' …

Gender vulnerability assessment to inform gender-sensitive adaptation action: a case study in semi-arid areas of Mali

AC Segnon, M Magassa, EAR Obossou… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the gender dimensions of vulnerability to climate change is crucial for
designing effective gender-transformative climate actions. This is particularly crucial in the …

A resilience approach to community-scale climate adaptation

OP Choko, L Schmitt Olabisi, RU Onyeneke… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Climate risk is expected to impact rural communities in West Africa in multiple ways.
However, most current research addresses resilience and climate adaptation at either the …

Using public participation within land use change scenarios for analysing environmental and socioeconomic drivers

J Penny, S Djordjević, AS Chen - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper aims to improve the understanding of environmental and socioeconomic drivers
on land use change (LUC) through public participation (PP), and provide recommendations …