Smallholder farmers in West Africa's Sahel face a harsh and worsening climate. Rainfall is erratic, temperatures are rising, ...

Increasingly erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts, episodes of intense precipitation linked to climate change reducing yields ...

Sahel summertime precipitation declined from the 1950s to 1970s and recovered from the 1970s to 2000s. Anthropogenic aerosol contributions to this evolution are typically attributed to ...

Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement exacerbated by rising temperatures, resource scarcity and food ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Sahel semiarid region was marked during the twentieth century by significant modulations of its rainfall regime at the decadal time scale.