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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

Burkina Faso - Integrating Indigenous and Scientific Rainfall Forecasting

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