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Drought tolerant cowpea can improve crop yield in arid West Africa
GCP funded research on cowpea, developing drought resistant varieties
DEVELOPMENT: High-Protein Pea Ideal for Drought-Hit Farmers
article on pigeon pea, ICRISAT
Nigeria: Nimet Predicts Low Rainfall
Good piece about expected rains for 2009 in Nigeria. This could potentially be used for a paper on drought in West Africa.
Mapping indicators of poverty in West Africa - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Generally shows how poverty increases from south to north, from wet to dry in West Africa.
Sahel Drought Trends, including climate chagne
shows drought trends in West Africa, including climate predictions to 2100....nice animations too.
GhanaDot.com Ghana’s Irrigation Potentials Untapped
I doubt they could do something like what India did during the Green Revolution....Interesting stats on the potential of irrigation in Ghana.
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The total potential of irrigable land in Ghana is put at 500,000 hectares with the current area developed for irrigation estimated at 11,000 hectares. This means that as a country, after 50 years of independence, Ghana has been able to develop only 0.02% of its irrigable land.
It is therefore no surprise that irrigation has not as yet impacted significantly on Ghana’s food production. Ghana needs to pay more attention to irrigationif the country is to develop and expand its agro-industries for the country’s economic growth and development at this stage, experts have warned.
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This appears to be the same mix of floods and droughts that have hit Kenya - causing famine conditions.
Uganda, UN In Joint Bid To Avert Karamoja Famine - EasyBourse actualité
Floods ruined a cassava crop in 2007, still trying to recuperate from that.
Google Trends: cassava
This leads to lots of interesting stuff, with historical data on cassava....
ReliefWeb » Document » Drought brings hunger to Kenya
Another documentation of drought, this time in Kenya...
Farmers get better yields from new drought-tolerant cassava
Article on a cassava variety that IITA is promoting in West Africa - with multiple characteristics.
The Food Chain - Drought Resistance Is the Goal, but Methods Differ - Series - NYTimes.com
Good article about what's going on with drought resistant agricultural tech....
Drought in Central and Southwest Asia - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal
This map could be used for verification purposes....
Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB)
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You are entering the Web gateway of the Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB), a platform and partnership of public, private and civil society institutions from the South and the North working in concert to promote Plant Breeding capacity building for crop improvement and sustainable development.
This Knowledge Resource Center is a gateway for data, information, and tools relevant to building and improving Plant Breeding capacity. It takes advantage of new strategies for gathering, organizing, interpreting, and sharing knowledge and information and also of interactive tools to promote cooperation and exchange.
Drought and Rice maps
Points out the presence of irrigation overwhelmingly in Asia, and perhaps the need for development in Africa
The Great Warming - Brian Fagan - Book Review - New York Times
Looks like a book well worth reading.....discusses the importance of drought in the history of civilization
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