Abstract
Climate variability and change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, with farreaching and devastating impacts on people, ecosystem services, natural resource-base and the natural environment as a whole
Highlights
Climate variability and change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, with farreaching and devastating impacts on people, ecosystem services, natural resource-base and the natural environment as a whole [1]
This paper aims to evaluate the impact of rainfall variability on agricultural production in Jakiri Sub-Division of the Northwest Region of Cameroon
Data sources for this study included the administration of 211 questionnaires to cover the three agro-ecological zones of Jakiri Sub-Division, rainfall data collected from Upper Nun Valley Development Authority (UNVDA) Ndop, National Meteorological Service and the Oku Wildlife Sanctuary
Summary
Climate variability and change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, with farreaching and devastating impacts on people, ecosystem services, natural resource-base and the natural environment as a whole [1]. Climate variability and change has adverse physiological effects on crops through inadequate water, when available water cannot meet crop requirements at various critical stages such as germination, flowering and maturity [3]. Most Sub-Saharan African countries are vulnerable to the effect of climate variability and change due to high reliance on rain-fed agriculture and natural resources, which constitute large part of local livelihoods [5,6]. Climate variability is projected to reduce yields from rain-fed agriculture by up to 50% by 2020 for some of the countries in Africa [9]. In Cameroon, mean annual rainfall has decreased by about 2.9 mm per month (2.2%) per decade since 1960 [10]. Cameroon experienced low rainfall in 2003 and 2005. Human activity has caused a variety of changes in different forcing
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