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Africa, Western Western Africa West AfricaCiter ce document
Abdoulaye Deme et al., « Chapter 3. Climate projections in West Africa: the obvious and the uncertain », IRD Éditions
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IntroductionA serious drought hit West Africa in the 1970s (Nicholson, 1980; Held et al., 2005) whose consequences for agriculture—the main activity of the people in the region—made a serious contribution to late development. Rainfall in the Sahel seems to have recovered since the 2000s, although it is not possible to say whether the trend will last during the coming decades (Paeth and Hense, 2004). This period also coincided with warming that probably resulted from the increase in greenhouse gases...
