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Parliamentarians from Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Togo, Kenya and Senegal, met at the Consultative Meeting for West African Parliamentarians on Disaster Risk Reduction: An Instrument for Achieving Millennium Development Goals by

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This paper aims at analyzing the gender differential impact of the use of seasonal forecast on the main crop yields (rice, maize, sorghum, millet and groundnut) and farm income in Senegal
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This study analyzed the perception of climate variability and change by fisher-folks, the attitude of fisher-folks toward the weather forecast and the adoption rate of the use of the weather forecast as well as the factors determining its use in Senegal.
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Cette recherche contribue à la littérature sur le risque de catastrophes, en approfondissant la compréhension de la relation entre la vulnérabilité aux inondations, l'urbanisme, et les stratégies d'adaptation locales. Ce travail présente une étude

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The Recommendations for Actions for Resilience and Sustainability (RAR-S) proposed in this report are outputs of the “Making Cities Sustainable and Resilient Action: Implementing the Sendai Framework for DRR 2015-2030” (MCSR) at the local level.
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Recently, a new approach to extension and climate information services, namely Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA), has been developed. PICSA makes use of historical climate records, participatory decision-making tools and

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Climate change threatens to increase the frequency and intensity of droughts and floods. There are large uncertainties related to unknowns around the future and society’s responses to these threats. ‘Uncertainty,’ as other words with the prefix ‘un’

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This study estimates in monetary terms the Cost of Environmental Degradation (COED) in the coastal areas of Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, and Togo. Specifically, it values the impacts of degradation that occur during one year, as a result of three major

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