Benin

This assessment is aimed to identify the structural causes of the floods and develop medium and long term effective flood-reduction strategies, focusing mainly on the areas of agriculture, food security, nonagricultural livelihoods, and urban environment.

Areas in south Benin which are often covered by water, including lagoonal waters and estuaries, swamps, freshwater lakes and reservoirs, and flood plain which is regularly and seaonally inundated. These inundated areas are derived from Mapstore (Russian

in French:

Ce document est un rapport de synthèse du séminaire régional organisé, à Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) du 06 au 10 avril 2009, dont l’objectif est une maîtrise des méthodologies et outils d’intégration des changements climatiques dans les

In English

It is generally acknowledged that, in Africa, poverty, the lack of development, high population density, environmental degradation, diseases, poor governance, wars, conflicts, violence and other such threats are underlying factors that

Submitted in preparation for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 2005, Kobe, Hygo, Japan.