Barriers to climate change adaptation: evidence from northeast Ghana in the context of a systematic literature review

P Antwi-Agyei, AJ Dougill, LC Stringer - Climate and Development, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the international significance attached to climate change adaptation, there remains
a lack of understanding of the barriers that impede the effective implementation of …

Validation and testing of the FAO AquaCrop model under different levels of nitrogen fertilizer on rainfed maize in Nigeria, West Africa

U Akumaga, A Tarhule, AA Yusuf - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2017 - Elsevier
The objectives of this study were to evaluate AquaCrop's ability to simulate the cumulative
grain yield of rainfed maize for different soil fertility levels in the northern Guinea Savanna …

Resilience (republished)

C Folke - Ecology and society, 2016 - JSTOR
Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about …

A new, long-term daily satellite-based rainfall dataset for operational monitoring in Africa

RI Maidment, D Grimes, E Black, E Tarnavsky… - Scientific data, 2017 - nature.com
Rainfall information is essential for many applications in developing countries, and yet,
continually updated information at fine temporal and spatial scales is lacking. In Africa …

The 30 year TAMSAT African rainfall climatology and time series (TARCAT) data set

RI Maidment, D Grimes, RP Allan… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
African societies are dependent on rainfall for agricultural and other water‐dependent
activities, yet rainfall is extremely variable in both space and time and reoccurring water …

[HTML][HTML] Extension of the TAMSAT satellite-based rainfall monitoring over Africa and from 1983 to present

E Tarnavsky, D Grimes, R Maidment… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Extension of the TAMSAT Satellite-Based Rainfall Monitoring over Africa and from 1983 to
Present in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 53 Issue 12 (2014) …

Identifying user needs for weather and climate services to enhance resilience to climate shocks in sub-Saharan Africa

E Nkiaka, A Taylor, AJ Dougill… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The vulnerability of social-ecological systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to climate
variability and change means that there is an urgent need to better integrate weather and …

Anticipatory governance for social-ecological resilience

E Boyd, B Nykvist, S Borgström, IA Stacewicz - Ambio, 2015 - Springer
Anticipation is increasingly central to urgent contemporary debates, from climate change to
the global economic crisis. Anticipatory practices are coming to the forefront of political …

Livelihood adaptations to climate variability: insights from farming households in Ghana

P Antwi-Agyei, LC Stringer, AJ Dougill - Regional environmental change, 2014 - Springer
Climate variability poses a significant threat to many sectors of Sub-Saharan Africa's
economy. Agriculture is one of the most climate sensitive sectors because of its dependence …

Properties and projects: Reconciling resilience and transformation for adaptation and development

ER Carr - World Development, 2019 - Elsevier
Resilience has surged to the forefront of conversations in the increasingly intertwined
development and adaptation communities of practice. However, their use of this concept …