Climate Change & Agriculture in Senegal Adaptaion needs and Implications For crop & livestock sectors

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Key results
The Senegalese agricutural economy faces critical
challenges related to near-term climatic variability as well
as longer-term climatic shocks. Both crop and livestock
sectors are impacted, and each is required to undertake
particular for adaptive measures & investments
The impacts are varied and reflect the diverse landscape
of Senegal’s agriculture
The majority of the crop sector is rainfed – making it highly
exposed to climatic variability. Irrigation potential is limited
(and is likely to be expanded for higher-value crops)
Therefore – soil moisture management is key for coping
The irrigated sectors (Niayes coastal region) – are
buffered from rainfall variability by ground & surface water
But aquifer management is critical for maintaining this
important buffer stock and needs institutions that
coordinate with non-ag sector
Extensive livestock systems are highly exposed to
variation in biomass availability and will remain mobile by
necessity. Feed markets could help greatly
Climate Change & Agriculture in Senegal
Adaptaion needs and Implications
For crop & livestock sectors
Siwa Msangi (IFPRI), Jarkko Niemi (LUKE), Kari Hyytiainen (U Helsinki), Amy Faye, Assane
Beye, Astou Diao Camara, Rassoul Sy, Yakhya Thior, Djiby Dia, Cheick Sadibou Fall (ISRA)
End-users and impact
Policy makers, analysts and implementers are envisioned
as being the main beneficiaries of the outputs
The key audience for this work are the following actors:
-Policy makers wishing to target priority sectors and
regions in need of adaptive investments & actions
-Analysts who can benefit from our tools of analysis and
receive direct training on them for direct application
- development implementers who seek guidance on
priority areas of action where intervention is effective
-Scientists and students interested in climate policy
analysis
A training module for economic policy analysis of
agriculture and resource management has been piloted
and will be extended futher in phase II of FoodAfrica
Figure 1. Key sub-regions of Senegal in the study that
cover various crop systems and rainfall regimes.
Significance of the Research results
Our results have implications for investment & coordinating
policy across sectors & sub-regions of Senegal
The challenges of infrastructure cut across all sectors
-Infrastructure for irrigation (where possible/practicable)
-Infrastructure for marketing (roads, cold storage, etc)
Analysis by IFPRI AfDB, World Bank and other partners
has shown that investments like these in the past have
experience higher rates of failure and greater unit costs –
when compared with regions like South Asia
Both government and private sector have a role – as
government provides basic infrastructure while the private
sector can incentivize higher value activities to exploit it
Senegal is formulating its national adaptation plan for
agriculture and other sectors – can draw from this work in
order to identify and prioritize some of the key sectors in
need of support.