Through a set of 52 qualitative interviews, this study examines first-time seasonal migration out of Bourasso, a village in North-Western Burkina Faso, to neighbouring countries and provides qualitative evidence demonstrating that in Bourasso climate-related seasonal migration by migrant men was predominately perceived as an erosive or failed strategy.
Focusing on water, the authors investigate the extent to which the spatial variation in the availability of water is linked with children’s malnutrition in the Sahel, using remotely sensed-based measures of waterholes with health survey data.
This article aimed to address the strategies commonly used by researchers who use the DHS use a variety of approaches for spatial data merging, and proposes a theory‐based and straightforward alternative for adding contextual environmental variables to survey data that maintains confidentiality of those surveyed.
The article introduces a new, publically available data extraction system Terra Populus (TerraPop), which was designed to facilitate population–environment studies. The use of TerraPop was showcased by exploring variations in the climate–migration association in Burkina Faso and Senegal based on differences in the local food security context.
The focused focused explicitly on precipitation, aridity, drought, land degradation, soil constraints, and availability of cropland and pastures as potential environmental drivers of migration in drylands.
The OASIS Initiative is currently seeking nominations for Fellows and for facilitators for the Sahel Leadership Program (PLS). The PLS will be co-hosted by Abdou Moumouni University (UAM) in Niamey, the Higher Institute of Population Sciences (ISSP) based at the University of Ouagadougou (UO) in Burkina Faso and the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS). The PLS is a unique and visionary program, aiming to catalyze an active and engaged network of development professionals with a common vision for the Sahel.
Since 1994, the Swiss Tropical Institute (STI) - in collaboration with many local partner organisations has undertaken studies in Ouagadougou, Nouakchott and N'djamena aiming at introducing and validating new approaches in research on the interactions between the environment and the population undergoing urbanization.
The authors evaluate the effect of rainfall on migration distance and duration in Burkina Faso.
Using time series of aerial photos and satellite images, field studies of vegetation and interviews with local people, the paper examines the trends of vegetation development in northern Burkina Faso from 1955 to 1994.
The paper studies how child survival in Burkina Faso is influenced by rainfall variations.
