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Burkina Faso - Integrating Indigenous and Scientific Rainfall Forecasting

This case study describes how farmers in Bonam, a village in rural Burkina Faso, predict seasonal rainfall, and, examines how their forecasts relate to scientific ones. The research shows that farmers are used to operate in multiple cognitive frame...

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Main Authors: Roncoli, Carla, Kirshen, Paul, Ingram, Keith, Jost, Christine
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
SCIENTIFIC FORECASTING
RAINFALL MEASUREMENT
CASE STUDIES
CLIMATIC CHANGE
RAINFED AGRICULTURAL AREAS
FARM MANAGEMENT
KNOWLEDGE-SHARING ANIMALS
CATTLE
CLIMATE
COTTON
CROP
CROPPING
CROPPING SYSTEMS
CROPS
DIET
DROUGHT
DRY SEASON
FARM
FARMER
FARMERS
FARMING
GRAIN
HERDERS
INDICA
LIVELIHOODS
MAIZE
NEGOTIATIONS
PASTORALISTS
PLANTING
PONDS
PRODUCE
RA
RAINFALL
RAINY SEASON
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
SCIENTISTS
SEA
SOIL
SOIL TYPES
SORGHUM
TREES
WATER LEVEL
WATER REQUIREMENTS
WATER SOURCES
WATER TABLE
WINDS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/12/1660263/burkina-faso-integrating-indigenous-forecasting-scientific-rainfall-forecasting
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10799

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/12/1660263/burkina-faso-integrating-indigenous-forecasting-scientific-rainfall-forecasting
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10799

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