Effects of customized climate services on land and labor productivity in Burkina Faso and Ghana

•Panel data were used to compute pluviometric extremes events and land and labor productivity.•The aim was to estimate the effect of customized climate services on land and labor productivity.•Customized climate services improved land and labour productivity but require a lot of commitment.•There is...

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Published in:	Climate services Vol. 25; p. 100280
Main Authors:	Sanfo, Safiétou, Salack, Seyni, Saley, Inoussa A., Daku, Elidaa K., Worou, Nadine O., Savadogo, Arnaud, Barro, Hamadou, Guug, Samuel, Koné, Harouna, Ibrahim, Boubacar, Rojas, Alfredo, Raimond, Christine, Ogunjobi, Kehinde O.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier B.V 01-01-2022 Elsevier
Subjects:	Burkina Faso Customized Climate Services Environmental Sciences Ghana Land and Labor Productivity On-farm Demonstrations Pluviometric extremes Quantitative Finance Customized Climate Services Ghana Burkina Faso Pluviometric extremes On-farm Demonstrations Land and Labor Productivity
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Summary:	•Panel data were used to compute pluviometric extremes events and land and labor productivity.•The aim was to estimate the effect of customized climate services on land and labor productivity.•Customized climate services improved land and labour productivity but require a lot of commitment.•There is a need for scaling up customized climate services to support larger rural communities. Climate services favor adopting strategies to increase agricultural productivity, enhance sustainable development, and adapt to unavoidable climate variability and change. However, for climates services to be effective, they must be accessible and suitable to user needs. This study investigated the effects of customized climate services (CCS) on land and labor productivity. Portraying the case of CCS delivered in the districts of Bolgatanga (Northern Ghana), Dano and Ouahigouya (western and northern Burkina Faso) in West Africa, it used: i) historical panel data of daily rainfall, yields, agricultural input, and output prices; ii) cost statements of farm operations and iii) other survey data from beneficiaries of on-farm demonstrations (pilot sites). Different results were found across farmers on the demonstrator sites, with Dano and Bolgatanga recording the best land and labor productivity. Strong and positive effects were observed in Dano, where land productivity increased by 200% and labor productivity doubled despite consecutive pluviometric extremes such as heavy rain events and prolonged dry spells in the 2017 and 2018 cropping seasons. Further investigation showed that CCS was particularly favorable to land and labor productivity of farmers who were committed to the advisory given by the CCS providers. Therefore, as perishable goods, the success of CCS applications would require thorough co-production, delivery, and monitoring for their effectiveness in improving land and labor productivity for agriculture in semi-arid regions of West Africa.
ISSN:	2405-8807 2405-8807
DOI:	10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100280