Tag: Sahel

A qualitative study in northern Senegal found that Fulani herders are combining crossbreeding, smaller herds, alternative breeds and new livelihoods ...

French researchers have embedded water isotope tracking into a high-resolution storm model and validated it against a classic 1981 Sahelian ...

A new qualitative study of Fulani communities in Senegal's Ferlo region finds that pastoral families actively negotiate and hybridize formal ...

A comparative study of the Sahel, Mali, Cameroon, and the Horn of Africa finds that political legitimacy and societal resolve, ...

Researchers have compiled and field-validated the most complete harmonized dataset of dams and reservoirs in West Africa, revealing systematic gaps ...

A 43-year, 38-station machine-learning study of Nigerian rainfall identifies four shifting climate zones, rising monsoon extremes and last-month rainfall as ...

A study of 230 pastoral households in Burkina Faso shows that herd size and education are the strongest predictors of ...

A seasonal fractional analysis of 124 years of monthly rainfall across 17 arid and semi-arid African countries reveals that some ...

New research argues that external security guarantees in a multipolar world are systematically eroding democratic accountability across the Sahel, Eastern ...

A new Nature Sustainability study shows that pairing seasonal weather forecasting with risk smoothing can help African pastoralist communities manage ...