April 2018

Modelling climate change impact and mitigation actions: A case study of rice productivity in West Africa based on panel data analysis

This paper investigated how climate change can affect paddy rice productivity and proposed a mitigation measure that may be undertaken. The analysis first explored the potential impacts of climate variables on rice yields by using panel data covering the period 1980 to 2016 for seven countries members of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). It then went on to calculate the investments needed in Research...

Author(s): Brice Hoyeton Ainan, Jingdong Luan and Mascimus Senan Soton