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Table 2 Assessment of the impacts of the different climate hazards, suggested adaptation strategies and factors preventing the adoption of these strategies, as perceived by farmers in Ngouye and Daga-Birame villages in Kaffrine Region, Senegal

From: Participatory diagnosis and development of climate change adaptive capacity in the groundnut basin of Senegal: building a climate-smart village model

Group

Impacts

Adaptation strategies

Factors preventing the adoption of the alternative strategy

Strong winds

 Men and women

Fire spreading into homes

Call firefighters

Remoteness of the fire brigade

Spread of diseases

Build brick houses with slabs

Lack of means

Habitat destruction (removal of roofs)

Reforestation

Inadequate awareness on the use of plant produced

 Women

Infertile land

Fertilizers

Promotion of FMNR

Insufficient financial resources and lack of partners

Lack of resource management rules

 Men

Wind erosion

Windbreaks

None

Flood

 Men

Loss of animal life

Build brick shelters

Lack of means

Human and animal health

Use modern medicine/construction of a health post

Lack of partners

 Women

Destruction of crops

None

None

Destruction of yields

None

None

 Men and women

Destruction of huts

Build brick houses

Lack of means

Drought

 Men

Poor harvest

Establish food stocks

Bad rainy season

Resurgence of diseases

Strengthen mutual health insurance

Financial resources

Decline in animal productivity

Build fodder reserves

Lack of means

 Women

Decline in market gardening productivity

Improved watering means (pump, installing solar panel)

Lack of financial partners