Challenges, contexts, constraints, and costs of coping with climate change in Sudano-Sahelian Africa

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2000

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This paper documents and discusses how farming households in the Sudano-Sahelian region of Burkina Faso have tried to adjust to a long-term shift towards drier climates, as well as coped with the consequences of a particularly severe drought during the farming season of 1997.

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Drought, Sustainable development, Livelihoods, Rainfed agriculture, Food security, Climate control, Poverty, Income diversification, Rainfall, Ecosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale Governance Watershed

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Submitted for publication in a special issue on "Anthropological Perspectives and Policy Implications of Climate Change Research", Climate Research, Fall 2000