Use of seasonal precipitation forecasting to improve agricultural production in the Sudano‐Sahel: an institutional analysis of Burkina Faso

Paul H. Kirshen and Ian D. Flitcroft

Natural Resources Forum, 2000, vol. 24, issue 3, 185-195

Abstract: Climate forecasts of the total rainfall in the Sudano‐Sahelian region of West Africa may have sufficient value to assist in agricultural decision‐making at the national, regional and local level. Forecasts are produced in both international and national centres using a variety of techniques. Institutions in Burkina Faso, the focus of the present case study, that are involved in agro‐meteorology and agriculture are interested in using forecasts. They have requested many improvements in the forecasts—some of which are beyond the state of the art. The research for the present article, based on interviews with representatives of institutions and following the trail of other agro‐meteorological information, confirms the existence of an information network within Burkina Faso that could reasonably well disseminate climate forecasts to interested organizations, farmers, and pastoralists.

Date: 2000
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