Climate Prediction and Agriculture Advances and Challenges, edited by Mannava V. K. Sivakurnar and James Hansen. In: Chapter 20; "Can ENSO help in agricultural decisionmaking in Ghana?" - Berlin Heidelberg

Yangyuoru, M.; Adiku, S.G.K.; Mawunya, F.D.; Jones, J.W.

Climate Prediction and Agriculture Advances and Challenges, edited by Mannava V. K. Sivakurnar and James Hansen. In: Chapter 20; "Can ENSO help in agricultural decisionmaking in Ghana?" - Berlin Heidelberg

Date

2007

Authors

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 205-212

Abstract

Rainfall variability has become a major agricultural issue in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially since crop production is mainly rainfed. Irrigation technologies are expensive and their implementation is slow. Many researchers now believe that some understanding of the causes of rainfall variability would lead to measures that could be used to investigate reduction in total rainfall and/or drought effects.