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Niger is a case of living perpetually with risk, thus more emphasis on long-term structural solutions, rather than short-term quick fixes, is required to improve the resilience of the agricultural sector.

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NigerRiskManagement13_web[2].pdf

The increase in extreme climate events that is expected to accompany climate change will
have far-reaching impacts on agricultural production and food security, water availability,
energy resources, health, biodiversity, and human settlement, especially in Africa. The timely
provision of climate information may help vulnerable societies and individuals to prepare for
these extreme events, thus mitigating the costs associated with bad years and allowing them to
better capture the benefits associated with favourable climatic conditions.

CCAFS carried out household baseline surveys in all its benchmark sites in 2010/2011. This report presents a summary of the main results of the analysis of the survey carried out in late 2010/early 2011 in 7 villages, with 139 households, in the Katuk-Odeyo CCAFS benchmark site, located in the Lower Nyando river basin, western Kenya. The survey was carried out using the standardised CCAFS household baseline tool.


The results show that the vast majority of surveyed households in Lower Nyando produce food crops and rely on livestock production for their livelihoods.

The project ???InfoClim,?? led by Senegal???s Ecological Monitoring Centre
(CSE) with support from the CCAA program, aims at improving the access of farmers and other local stakeholders to information deemed relevant to strengthening adaptation. It has established a participatory platform, known as an
???observatory??, to collect and share information in order to build the
capacity of vulnerable populations to adapt to climate change and
variability.