Browsing by Author "Totin, Edmond"

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    Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2023-01-03) Sparkes, Edward; Totin, Edmond; Werners, Saskia E.; Wise, Russell M.; Butler, James R.A.; Vincent, Katharine
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    Can scenario planning catalyse transformational change? : Evaluating a climate change policy case study in Mali
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2018) Totin, Edmond; Butler, James R.; Sidibé, Amadou; Partey, Samuel; Thornton, Philip K.; Tabo, Ramadjita
    The study evaluates outcomes resulting from scenario planning and the extent to which these contribute to transformational processes. It focuses on a district level case study in rural Mali which examined food security and necessary policy changes in the context of climate change. The article concludes that to enhance the resilience of agricultural and food systems under climate change, participatory scenario processes require a broader range of cross-scale engagement to support transformational changes. Such processes will catalyse deeper learning and more effective links with national level policymaking. There was good evidence of change amongst individuals, but limited evidence of collective transformation.
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    Changing ecosystem services are increasing people's vulnerability in semi-arid regions : an ASSAR cross-regional insight
    (2019-10) Krishnaswamy, Jagdish; Bunyan, Milind; Solomon, Divya; Duraisamy, Vijayasekaran; Bazaz, Amir; Thomas, Renie; Masundire, Hillary; Molefe, Chandapiwa; Tebboth, Mark; Assen, Mohammed; Adnew, Mekonnen; Thompson-Hall, Mary; Totin, Edmond; Sidibe, Amadou; Mensah, Adelina; Bosworth, Brendon; Hoffman, Tali; Scodanibbio, Lucia
    Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) researchers collaborated to understand the complex changes and patterns in semi-arid vegetation and socio-ecological systems. Ecosystems were mapped using a cross-regional coarse scale study, relying on climate data to capture global and regional trends. Finest spatial scale mapping relied on LANDSAT to show changes in land use and land cover. Details of observed changes are provided for Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Mali, Ghana, West Africa, and India. Links to referenced studies are embedded in the report. Ecosystem services need to be sustainably managed through regulatory measures.
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    Differential household vulnerability to climatic and non-climatic stressors in semi-arid areas of Mali, West Africa
    (Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-12-10) Segnon, Alcade C.; Totin, Edmond; Zougmoré, Robert B.; Lokossou, Jourdain C.; Thompson-Hall, Mary; Ofori, Benjamin O.; Achigan-Dako, Enoch G.; Gordon, Christopher
    This study adopted a ‘vulnerability patterns’ framework that included both climatic and non-climatic stressors to analyze differential household vulnerability in semi-arid regions (SARs) of Mali. Findings showed that while drought was the most mentioned climate-related stressor, households were also exposed to a diversity of environmental and socio-economic stressors, including food scarcity, livestock disease, labour unavailability, crop damage, and erratic rainfall patterns. Availability of productive household members, household resource endowments, livelihood diversification and social networks were the main discriminant factors of household adaptive capacity, while challenges relating to food and water security make households more sensitive to stressors.
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    IPCC’s sixth assessment report : impacts, adaptation options and investment areas for a climate-resilient Central Africa
    (2022-03-15) Trisos, Christopher; Totin, Edmond; Adelekan, Ibidun; Lennard, Chris; Simpson, Nicholas; Climate and Development Knowledge Network
    CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five sub-regions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa. This in response to demand expressed by our partners in Africa for more country and sub-regional information.
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    IPCC’s sixth assessment report : impacts, adaptation options and investment areas for a climate-resilient southern Africa
    (2022-03-07) Trisos, Christopher; Totin, Edmond; Adelekan, Ibidun; Lennard, Chris; Simpson, Nicholas; Climate and Development Knowledge Network
    CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five sub-regions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa. This in response to demand expressed by our partners in Africa for more country and sub-regional information.
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    IPCC’s sixth assessment report : impacts, adaptation options and investment areas for a climate-resilient West Africa
    (2022-03-15) Simpson, Nicholas; Totin, Edmond; Trisos, Christopher; Adelekan, Ibidun; Lennard, Chris; Climate and Development Knowledge Network
    CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five sub-regions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa. This in response to demand expressed by our partners in Africa for more country and sub-regional information.
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    Multi-scale governance in agriculture systems : interplay between national and local institutions around the production dimension of food security in Mali
    (Elsevier B.V., 2017-09-29) Sidibe, Amadou; Totin, Edmond; Thompson-Hall, Mary; Traoré, Oumar T.; Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C.; Schmitt Olabisi, Laura
    Overall, ensuring food security may require a synergy of interventions – the use of innovative agricultural technologies alongside the creation of an enabling institutional environment. This paper aims to contribute to the diagnostic of institutional variety across scales. It aims at understanding what institutional logics at different scales are “good at” in terms of creating and sustaining enabling institutional environments for food production and subsequent food security. What is the mechanism through which conducive institutional conditions are created that could enable increases in productivity? The paper documents the institutional logics of three case studies.
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    Sixième rapport d’évaluation du GIEC : impacts, options d’adaptation et domaines d’investissement pour une Afrique centrale résiliente au changement climatique
    (2022-03-15) Trisos, Christopher; Totin, Edmond; Adelekan, Ibidun; Lennard, Chris; Simpson, Nicholas; Climate and Development Knowledge Network
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    Sixième rapport d’évaluation du GIEC : impacts, options d’adaptation et domaines d’investissement pour une Afrique de l’Ouest résiliente au changement climatique
    (2022-03-15) Trisos, Christopher; Totin, Edmond; Adelekan, Ibidun; Lennard, Chris; Simpson, Nicholas; Climate and Development Knowledge Network
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    Using transformative scenario planning to think critically about the future of agriculture, natural resources and food security in Koutiala, Mali
    (2017-03) Sidibe, Amadou; Totin, Edmond; Segnon, Alcade; Thompson-Hall, Mary; Hoffman, Tali
    With locally-relevant themes, Transformative Scenario Planning (TSP) workshop scenarios focused on various levels of ease of access to agricultural land, and water for irrigation. They also considered the role of other likely internal and external influential factors such as changing weather patterns, the use of natural resources, political decisions and agricultural development. TSP workshops aim to construct a safe space where people can talk openly and honestly about complex issues in order to think differently about ways of working together.
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    Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the semi-arid regions of West Africa
    (2015) Padgham, Jon; Abubakari, Ahmed; Ayivor, Jesse; Dietrich, Katie; Fosu-Mensah, Benidicta; Gordon, Chris; Habtezion, Senay; Lawson, Elaine; Mensah, Adelina; Nukpezah, Dan; Ofori, Ben; Piltz, Shayne; Sidibé, Amadou; Sissoko, Manda; Totin, Edmond; Traoré, Sibiry
    This report, which encompasses the findings of a Regional Diagnostic Study (RDS) for West Africa, was undertaken in 2014-15 to advance understanding of climate change in semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia. The RDS represents the first phase of a research effort under the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) project. ASSAR is one of four consortia generating new knowledge of climate change hotspots under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA1). The ASSAR project operates in Western, Eastern and Southern Africa and Western India. The ASSAR focal countries in Africa are Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia, Kenya, Botswana, and Namibia, and in India the focal states are Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Karnataka.
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    Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the semi-arid regions of west Africa
    (2015-04-15) Padgham, Jon; Abubakari, Ahmed; Ayivor, Jesse; Dietrich, Katie; Fosu-Mensah, Benedicta; Gordon, Chris; Habtezion, Senay; Lawson, Elaine; Mensah, Adelina; Nukpezah, Dan; Ofori, Ben; Piltz, Shayne; Sidibe, Amadou; Sissoko, Manda; Totin, Edmond; Traore, Sibiry; Daze, Angie; Echeverria, Daniella
    The paper provides an overview of demographic and economic facts and trends in West Africa in general, and Ghana and Mali in particular, with country data snapshots. It examines the development dynamics in the semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas that comprise a significant portion of the West African drylands. Climate vulnerability in the West African context includes extensification of agriculture onto increasingly marginal drought-prone soils, reduced mobility of pastoralists, and the increasing prevalence of built structures to store river water. This increases sensitivity and exposure of downstream water users to low water levels and drought. The paper provides in-depth analysis and policy recommendations.