[ Changement climatique et pratiques agricoles: De la nécessité d’une communication météorologique pour le changement de comportement des producteurs de vivriers du Gbêkê ]
Volume 39, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 475–485
Yéboué ALLANGBA1
1 Maitre-Assistant, UFR Information, Communication et Arts, département de Communication, Université Félix Houphouët Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
« Climate change and agricultural practices: the need for meteorological communication for the gbêkê food producers’ behavior change » aims to show that climate change has an impact on the food agriculture of producers in the Gbêkê region in Ivory Coast. The documentary study, the individual interviews and the focus groups have made have permitted, after analyzes and comparisons, to show that since 1970, there has been a climatic rupture in Côte d’Ivoire. Although felt by the food producers of Gbêkê, they have nevertheless kept their ancestral agricultural calendar. On the other hand, there has been a change in the agricultural system and techniques with the use of new agricultural equipment adapted to the new climate and the addition of chemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers. It appears that regular and understandable meteorological communication will allow a change in the behavior of food producers in Gbêkê.
Author Keywords: Climate change, agricultural calendar, farming techniques, subsistence farming, meteorological information.
Volume 39, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 475–485
Yéboué ALLANGBA1
1 Maitre-Assistant, UFR Information, Communication et Arts, département de Communication, Université Félix Houphouët Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
« Climate change and agricultural practices: the need for meteorological communication for the gbêkê food producers’ behavior change » aims to show that climate change has an impact on the food agriculture of producers in the Gbêkê region in Ivory Coast. The documentary study, the individual interviews and the focus groups have made have permitted, after analyzes and comparisons, to show that since 1970, there has been a climatic rupture in Côte d’Ivoire. Although felt by the food producers of Gbêkê, they have nevertheless kept their ancestral agricultural calendar. On the other hand, there has been a change in the agricultural system and techniques with the use of new agricultural equipment adapted to the new climate and the addition of chemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers. It appears that regular and understandable meteorological communication will allow a change in the behavior of food producers in Gbêkê.
Author Keywords: Climate change, agricultural calendar, farming techniques, subsistence farming, meteorological information.
Abstract: (french)
« Changement climatique et pratiques agricoles: de la nécessité d’une communication pour le changement de comportement des producteurs de vivriers du Gbêkê » a pour objectif de montrer que le changement climatique a un impact sur l’agriculture vivrière des producteurs de la région du Gbêkê en Côte d’Ivoire. L’étude documentaire, les entretiens individuels et les focus-groups ont permis, après analyses et comparaisons, de faire ressortir que depuis 1970, il y a une rupture climatique en Côte d’Ivoire. Bien que ressentie par les producteurs de vivriers du Gbêkê, ceux-ci ont néanmoins conservé leurs calendrier et système agricole ancestraux. Par contre, il y a eu un changement dans les techniques agricoles avec l’utilisation de nouveaux matériels agricoles adaptés au nouveau climat et l’apport de produits chimiques tels que les pesticides et les engrais. Il en ressort qu’une communication météorologique, régulière et compréhensible, permettrait un changement de comportement des producteurs de vivriers du Gbêkê.
Author Keywords: Changement climatique, calendrier agricole, techniques culturales, agriculture vivrière, information météorologie.
How to Cite this Article
Yéboué ALLANGBA, “Climate change and agricultural practices: The need for meteorological communication for the Gbêkê food producers’ behavior change,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 475–485, March 2023.
