The role of rainfall information in producers' decisions: Ethnographic research in the Sahel (Séno Province, Burkina Faso)

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1999
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This research seeks to better understand how both institutions and farm households in the arid Sahel-Soudan (SS) Region, West Africa can together use seasonal precipitation forecasting influenced by ENSO to improve the rain-fed agricultural production systems of farm households and thus the security of their livelihoods.

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Rainfed agriculture, Food security, Livelihoods, Government institutions, Arid zones, Farm household, Precipitation forecasting, Ecosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale
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report funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States