Despite the rain. Living and dealing with climate change in a small West African village
Project Type:
project summary
The main findings of this study were that climate is difficult to single out as a driver of change and human actions even at a small scale such as the village the researcher worked in. Gender, age, ethnicity matters in ability to adapt; people in the Sahel have adapted well to the changes experienced in the climate there over the past 50 years, and have done so by diversifying their livelihoods out of rainfed agriculture.
Facts
PERIOD: 31 December 2005 to
30 December 2010
PROJECT CODE: 914-KU
COUNTRIES:
Burkina Faso
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
Jonas Østergaard Nielsen
TOTAL GRANT: 2,226,577 DKK
Institutions
LEAD INSTITUTION:
University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark
