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Beyond local climate: rainfall variability as a determinant of household nonfarm activities in contemporary rural Burkina Faso

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D'haen, Sarah Ann Lise [UCL] Lambin, Eric [UCL] Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard [Waterworlds Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark]

At the household level, nonfarm activities are thought to help rural poor households buffer against agricultural risks related to local climate variability by providing them with cash to buy food in the case of harvest shortfalls. Over the recent decades, households in rural Sub-Sahara have been found less dependent on land and subsistence agriculture and an increasing number of households here derive their income from nonfarm activities. This study tests the hypothesis that rural households in Burkina Faso have diversified to the extent that they no longer rely on nonfarm activities as a safety net against adverse local rainfall events. Results show that household decisions to participate in the nonfarm economy could not be directly linked with local rainfall events during the study period in the mid-2000s. However, household participation was determined by adverse rainfall conditions in the major staple food production zone of the country, presumably because these caused a rise in food prices. Results also suggested that Burkinabe households adopted a flexible approach to nonfarm participation in terms of locality and plurality, depending on short-term rainfall conditions. © 2014 Taylor & Francis.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2014
Language Anglais
Journal information "Climate and Development" - Vol. 6, no. 2, p. 144-165 (2014)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Earthscan Ltd.
e-issn 1756-5537
issn 1756-5529
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/ELI - Earth and Life Institute
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Bibliographic reference D'haen, Sarah Ann Lise ; Lambin, Eric ; Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard. Beyond local climate: rainfall variability as a determinant of household nonfarm activities in contemporary rural Burkina Faso. In: Climate and Development, Vol. 6, no. 2, p. 144-165 (2014)
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