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Climate Change Actions in the Sahel

2025· book-chapter· en· W4410611867 on OpenAlexaff
Terence Épule Épule, Vincent Poirier

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicClimate change impacts on agriculture
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClimate changeGeographyClimatologyGeologyOceanography

Abstract

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Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its Sixth Assessment Report posits that temperatures will continue to rise across Africa while precipitation will decline in northern and southern Africa; west, central, and east Africa will witness increased, high-intensity, short-duration, and poorly distributed precipitation that is mostly unavailable for crop growth. Despite its limited contribution to the global and regional greenhouse gas budget, Africa as a continent and most of its regions continue to be more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. There is evidence across Africa that its relatively higher vulnerability to climate change stressors is anchored in its extremely relatively low adaptive capacities evidenced in high poverty and low literacy rates. The impacts of climate change are seen mostly in the context of recurrent, low resilience and high vulnerability to stressors or climate shocks, such as droughts, floods, and sandstorms. Because African economies are wired on agriculture, these stressors or shocks are ravaging agricultural systems, thus creating daunting food security and economic challenges. This chapter reviews some of the climate change adaptation actions carried out by governments, nongovernmental organizations, and communities to adapt to climate change across the Sahel in the agricultural sector, as this region of Africa is particularly vulnerable.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.056

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0170.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.094
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.142 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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