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
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2007
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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.