Journal of Food Processing & Technology

Shaoxian Song

Publications

• Research Article
  Climate Change Adaptation and Agricultural Development in Central Africa Republic-Evidence of North-West
  Author(s): Serge Kevin Gildas Soulé Baoro, Shaoxian Song and Clifford James FagaribaSerge Kevin Gildas Soulé Baoro, Shaoxian Song and Clifford James Fagariba
  
  Farmers' perceptions ethno-weather climate change in the North-west of Central African local knowledge is based on experiences to explain and understand the recent climate change. These farmers' knowledge on climate change has been capitalized using the tools and techniques of socio-anthropological investigations (interview, questionnaire and focus group). The results show that over 80% of people have noted strong sunlight which is in fact the way to express higher temperatures. Facts suggestive manifestations of climate change including reducing the number of days of rain and the duration of the rainy season, early arrival and late withdrawal of the harmattan, the disappearance of animal and plant species and seasons announcing the disruption of the cropping calendar. These climatic perturbations lead the peasantry to develop strategies to adapt to endogenous consequences of the obse.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7110.1000761

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