Edmond Totin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5774300 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Edmond Totin |
| NOMBRES | Edmond |
| APELLIDO | Totin |
| FIRMA | TOTIN E |
| AFILIACIONES | Université d'Agriculture de Kétou |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3377-6190 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Climate change and food production in Africa
Climate change introduces new uncertainties and complexities to already stressed and precarious agricultural systems in Africa. While extreme climate events, such as droughts and flood, dominate the headlines, gradual shifts in climate conditions, such as rising temperatures and changes in rainfall severely affect crop and livestock production in many African countries. We analyze records from two databases to identify how those shifts affect Afr…
Assessing climate-related non-economic loss and damage and rethinking the relation between L&D and adaptation
The international discourse on loss and damages (L&Ds) under the climate convention is ongoing. Significant attention has been given to a dedicated fund to assist vulnerable countries to recover from climate related L&D. While much of the political discussion focuses on the amount of funding needed and who should pay, less attention is given to risk reduction initiatives eligible for the L&D funding mechanisms. There is also an emerging need to l…
Impact of business coaching on farmers’ income
Cluster randomized trial with 48 farmer groups and 665 vegetable producers in Benin. • Evaluated the impact of business coaching and technical support for smallholder farmers. • The intervention raised average net vegetable income by 11.2% after one year. • Intermediary effects on business knowledge, trust, credit access, and agricultural practices. • Business coaching and technical support are important to raise farm productivity. The productivi…
Adaptation bricolage
A growing body of adaptation literature focuses on community resistance, a phenomenon whereby local people reject external interventions aimed at bolstering adaptation and/or resilience. While this is often considered as “adaptation failure” by development agencies, it may reflect a more complex reality. In this Viewpoint article, we engage an adaptation bricolage lens to examine a set of case studies of externally introduced adaptation in agricu…
Pathways for urgent action towards climate resilient development
Engaging diverse knowledge holders in adaptation research
Ipcc, 2023
The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Synthesis Report (SYR) of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is a component of the SYR which provides a policy-relevant but policy-neutral summary of the SYR. It is consistent with the Sections of the SYR and is approved line by line by the Governments at a plenary session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Ipcc, 2023
The Synthesis Report (SYR) is a stand-alone synthesis of the most policy-relevant evidence from the scientific, technical, and socio-economic literature assessed in the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The SYR distils and integrates the main findings of the three reports of the Working Groups of the IPCC during the AR6, and the three AR6 Special Reports into a concise document. It consists of …
Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development
Adaptation pathways are a decision-focused approach to account for future uncertainties and complexities in planning and implementation of adaptation actions. The pathways approach incorporates flexibility into decision making to accommodate for changing conditions over time, and to reduce undesirable path dependencies and maladaptive consequences. While the pathways approach for adaptation planning has received great interest from both climate s…
Towards more sustainable responses to natural hazards and climate change challenges via transformative adaptation
Understanding human vulnerability to climate change
Climate change is a severe global threat. Research on climate change and vulnerability to natural hazards has made significant progress over the last decades. Most of the research has been devoted to improving the quality of climate information and hazard data, including exposure to specific phenomena, such as flooding or sea-level rise. Less attention has been given to the assessment of vulnerability and embedded social, economic and historical …
Synergies and trade-offs between climate change adaptation options and gender equality
Climate change impacts are being felt across sectors in all regions of the world, and adaptation projects are being implemented to reduce climate risks and existing vulnerabilities. Climate adaptation actions also have significant synergies and tradeoffs with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 5 on gender equality. Questions are increasingly being raised about the gendered and climate justice implications of different adaptat…
Differential household vulnerability to climatic and non-climatic stressors in semi-arid areas of Mali, West Africa
Semi-Arid Regions (SARs) of West Africa are considered climate change “hotspots” where strong ecological, economic and social impacts converge to make socio-ecological systems particularly vulnerable. While both climatic and non-climatic drivers interact across scales to influence vulnerability, traditionally, this inter-connectedness has received little attention in vulnerability assessments in the region. This study adopted the vulnerability pa…
Equity in climate scholarship
We -the Editors of Climate and Development -react in both delight and dismay to the 'Hot List' of 1000 influential scholars in climate change published by Reuters 1 on 20 April 2021.Delight because the compilation of such a list demonstrates the critical importance of climate change as a major global challenge, celebrating climate change knowledge-holders who are at the forefront of ground-breaking and influential thinking and research.As a clima…
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change
Adaptation pathways
Adaptation pathways have experienced growing popularity as a decision-focussed approach in climate adaptation research and planning. Despite the increasing and broadening use of adaptation pathways reported in the literature, there has not yet been a systematic attempt to review, compare and contrast approaches to adaptation pathways design and their application. In this paper we address this gap through a literature review of conceptual and appl…
A framework for complex climate change risk assessment
Real-world experience underscores the complexity of interactions among multiple drivers of climate change risk and of how multiple risks compound or cascade. However, a holistic framework for assessing such complex climate change risks has not yet been achieved. Clarity is needed regarding the interactions that generate risk, including the role of adaptation and mitigation responses. In this perspective, we present a framework for three categorie…
Regional clusters of vulnerability show the need for transboundary cooperation
Reducing vulnerability is essential for adaptation to climate change. Compared to approaches that examine vulnerability to a specific hazard, our analysis offers an alternative perspective that conceptualizes vulnerability to climate change as a phenomenon that is independent of any specific type of hazard but relevant to multiple hazards. Vulnerability is thus a product of structural inequality and systemic in nature. Based on two established in…
Feasibility assessment of climate change adaptation options across Africa
Considering the feasibility and effectiveness of adaptation options is essential for guiding responses to climate change that reduce risk. Here, we assessed the feasibility of adaptation options for the African context. Using the Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative, a stocktake of adaptation-related responses to climate change from the peer-reviewed literature in 2013–2020, we found 827 records of adaptation actions in Africa. We categorised and…
Advancing climate resilient development pathways since the IPCC’s fifth assessment report
Development processes and action on climate change are closely interlinked. This is recognised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its fifth assessment report, which reports on climate-resilient pathways, understood as development trajectories towards sustainable development which include adaptation and mitigation. The upcoming sixth assessment report dedicates a chapter to climate resilient development pathways. In this co…
The impacts of the early outset of the Covid-19 pandemic on climate change research
Since January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the media and exercises pressure on governments worldwide. Apart from its effects on economies, education systems and societies, the pandemic has also influenced climate change research. This paper examines the extent to which COVID-19 has influenced climate change research worldwide during the first wave at the beginning of 2020 and how it is perceived to exploit it in the future. This stud…
Whose voices, whose choices? Pursuing climate resilient trajectories for the poor
Climate Resilient Trajectories are routes to development progress that take into account aspects of climate change adaptation and mitigation in a sustainability context, offering a way to explicitly consider impacts of development and climate change choices on different sectors, scales, and socio-economic effects. Due to their scope and relevance, Climate Resilient Trajectories are of great interest to climate scientists, governments and the priv…
Property rights and wrongs
Agricultural land reforms are crucial to promote investments in sustainable land management and food production amidst accelerating urbanization and increasing population growth. However, notable gaps remain in the literature regarding how land reforms designed at the national level are implemented in localized contexts, especially as they interplay with customary tenure regimes. Adopting an institutional bricolage perspective, we explore interac…
Achieving sustainable future objectives under uncertain conditions
Adaptation Pathways have emerged as promising approaches for exploring sequences of actions to address challenges in uncertain conditions. This study elaborates on how pathway approaches operate in practice by applying a learning framework that identifies guiding propositions for successful adaptation pathways. The framework is used to analyze a transformative scenario planning case study from rural Mali. Findings confirm that adaptation pathways…
Can scenario planning catalyse transformational change? Evaluating a climate change policy case study in Mali
The potential of participatory scenario processes to catalyse individual and collective transformation \nand policy change is emphasised in several theoretical reflections. Participatory scenario \nprocesses are believed to enhance participants’ systems understanding, learning, networking and \nsubsequent changes in practices. However, limited empirical evidence is available to prove these \nassumptions. This study aimed to contribute to this kno…
Whose voices, whose choices? Pursuing climate resilient trajectories for the poor
Climate Resilient Trajectories are routes to development progress that take into account aspects of climate change adaptation and mitigation in a sustainability context, offering a way to explicitly consider impacts of development and climate change choices on different sectors, scales, and socio-economic effects. Due to their scope and relevance, Climate Resilient Trajectories are of great interest to climate scientists, governments and the priv…
Advancing climate resilient development pathways since the IPCC’s fifth assessment report
Development processes and action on climate change are closely interlinked. This is recognised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its fifth assessment report, which reports on climate-resilient pathways, understood as development trajectories towards sustainable development which include adaptation and mitigation. The upcoming sixth assessment report dedicates a chapter to climate resilient development pathways. In this co…
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development
Adaptation pathways are a decision-focused approach to account for future uncertainties and complexities in planning and implementation of adaptation actions. The pathways approach incorporates flexibility into decision making to accommodate for changing conditions over time, and to reduce undesirable path dependencies and maladaptive consequences. While the pathways approach for adaptation planning has received great interest from both climate s…
Property rights and wrongs
Agricultural land reforms are crucial to promote investments in sustainable land management and food production amidst accelerating urbanization and increasing population growth. However, notable gaps remain in the literature regarding how land reforms designed at the national level are implemented in localized contexts, especially as they interplay with customary tenure regimes. Adopting an institutional bricolage perspective, we explore interac…
Achieving sustainable future objectives under uncertain conditions
Adaptation Pathways have emerged as promising approaches for exploring sequences of actions to address challenges in uncertain conditions. This study elaborates on how pathway approaches operate in practice by applying a learning framework that identifies guiding propositions for successful adaptation pathways. The framework is used to analyze a transformative scenario planning case study from rural Mali. Findings confirm that adaptation pathways…
Towards more sustainable responses to natural hazards and climate change challenges via transformative adaptation
Can scenario planning catalyse transformational change? Evaluating a climate change policy case study in Mali
The potential of participatory scenario processes to catalyse individual and collective transformation \nand policy change is emphasised in several theoretical reflections. Participatory scenario \nprocesses are believed to enhance participants’ systems understanding, learning, networking and \nsubsequent changes in practices. However, limited empirical evidence is available to prove these \nassumptions. This study aimed to contribute to this kno…
Achieving sustainable future objectives under uncertain conditions
Adaptation Pathways have emerged as promising approaches for exploring sequences of actions to address challenges in uncertain conditions. This study elaborates on how pathway approaches operate in practice by applying a learning framework that identifies guiding propositions for successful adaptation pathways. The framework is used to analyze a transformative scenario planning case study from rural Mali. Findings confirm that adaptation pathways…
Differential household vulnerability to climatic and non-climatic stressors in semi-arid areas of Mali, West Africa
Semi-Arid Regions (SARs) of West Africa are considered climate change “hotspots” where strong ecological, economic and social impacts converge to make socio-ecological systems particularly vulnerable. While both climatic and non-climatic drivers interact across scales to influence vulnerability, traditionally, this inter-connectedness has received little attention in vulnerability assessments in the region. This study adopted the vulnerability pa…
Equity in climate scholarship
We -the Editors of Climate and Development -react in both delight and dismay to the 'Hot List' of 1000 influential scholars in climate change published by Reuters 1 on 20 April 2021.Delight because the compilation of such a list demonstrates the critical importance of climate change as a major global challenge, celebrating climate change knowledge-holders who are at the forefront of ground-breaking and influential thinking and research.As a clima…
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change
Adaptation pathways
Adaptation pathways have experienced growing popularity as a decision-focussed approach in climate adaptation research and planning. Despite the increasing and broadening use of adaptation pathways reported in the literature, there has not yet been a systematic attempt to review, compare and contrast approaches to adaptation pathways design and their application. In this paper we address this gap through a literature review of conceptual and appl…
A framework for complex climate change risk assessment
Real-world experience underscores the complexity of interactions among multiple drivers of climate change risk and of how multiple risks compound or cascade. However, a holistic framework for assessing such complex climate change risks has not yet been achieved. Clarity is needed regarding the interactions that generate risk, including the role of adaptation and mitigation responses. In this perspective, we present a framework for three categorie…
Regional clusters of vulnerability show the need for transboundary cooperation
Reducing vulnerability is essential for adaptation to climate change. Compared to approaches that examine vulnerability to a specific hazard, our analysis offers an alternative perspective that conceptualizes vulnerability to climate change as a phenomenon that is independent of any specific type of hazard but relevant to multiple hazards. Vulnerability is thus a product of structural inequality and systemic in nature. Based on two established in…
Feasibility assessment of climate change adaptation options across Africa
Considering the feasibility and effectiveness of adaptation options is essential for guiding responses to climate change that reduce risk. Here, we assessed the feasibility of adaptation options for the African context. Using the Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative, a stocktake of adaptation-related responses to climate change from the peer-reviewed literature in 2013–2020, we found 827 records of adaptation actions in Africa. We categorised and…
Advancing climate resilient development pathways since the IPCC’s fifth assessment report
Development processes and action on climate change are closely interlinked. This is recognised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its fifth assessment report, which reports on climate-resilient pathways, understood as development trajectories towards sustainable development which include adaptation and mitigation. The upcoming sixth assessment report dedicates a chapter to climate resilient development pathways. In this co…
The impacts of the early outset of the Covid-19 pandemic on climate change research
Since January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the media and exercises pressure on governments worldwide. Apart from its effects on economies, education systems and societies, the pandemic has also influenced climate change research. This paper examines the extent to which COVID-19 has influenced climate change research worldwide during the first wave at the beginning of 2020 and how it is perceived to exploit it in the future. This stud…
Whose voices, whose choices? Pursuing climate resilient trajectories for the poor
Climate Resilient Trajectories are routes to development progress that take into account aspects of climate change adaptation and mitigation in a sustainability context, offering a way to explicitly consider impacts of development and climate change choices on different sectors, scales, and socio-economic effects. Due to their scope and relevance, Climate Resilient Trajectories are of great interest to climate scientists, governments and the priv…
Property rights and wrongs
Agricultural land reforms are crucial to promote investments in sustainable land management and food production amidst accelerating urbanization and increasing population growth. However, notable gaps remain in the literature regarding how land reforms designed at the national level are implemented in localized contexts, especially as they interplay with customary tenure regimes. Adopting an institutional bricolage perspective, we explore interac…
Understanding human vulnerability to climate change
Climate change is a severe global threat. Research on climate change and vulnerability to natural hazards has made significant progress over the last decades. Most of the research has been devoted to improving the quality of climate information and hazard data, including exposure to specific phenomena, such as flooding or sea-level rise. Less attention has been given to the assessment of vulnerability and embedded social, economic and historical …
Synergies and trade-offs between climate change adaptation options and gender equality
Climate change impacts are being felt across sectors in all regions of the world, and adaptation projects are being implemented to reduce climate risks and existing vulnerabilities. Climate adaptation actions also have significant synergies and tradeoffs with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 5 on gender equality. Questions are increasingly being raised about the gendered and climate justice implications of different adaptat…
Ipcc, 2023
The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Synthesis Report (SYR) of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is a component of the SYR which provides a policy-relevant but policy-neutral summary of the SYR. It is consistent with the Sections of the SYR and is approved line by line by the Governments at a plenary session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Ipcc, 2023
The Synthesis Report (SYR) is a stand-alone synthesis of the most policy-relevant evidence from the scientific, technical, and socio-economic literature assessed in the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The SYR distils and integrates the main findings of the three reports of the Working Groups of the IPCC during the AR6, and the three AR6 Special Reports into a concise document. It consists of …
Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development
Adaptation pathways are a decision-focused approach to account for future uncertainties and complexities in planning and implementation of adaptation actions. The pathways approach incorporates flexibility into decision making to accommodate for changing conditions over time, and to reduce undesirable path dependencies and maladaptive consequences. While the pathways approach for adaptation planning has received great interest from both climate s…
Towards more sustainable responses to natural hazards and climate change challenges via transformative adaptation
Pathways for urgent action towards climate resilient development
Engaging diverse knowledge holders in adaptation research
Adaptation bricolage
A growing body of adaptation literature focuses on community resistance, a phenomenon whereby local people reject external interventions aimed at bolstering adaptation and/or resilience. While this is often considered as “adaptation failure” by development agencies, it may reflect a more complex reality. In this Viewpoint article, we engage an adaptation bricolage lens to examine a set of case studies of externally introduced adaptation in agricu…
Climate change and food production in Africa
Climate change introduces new uncertainties and complexities to already stressed and precarious agricultural systems in Africa. While extreme climate events, such as droughts and flood, dominate the headlines, gradual shifts in climate conditions, such as rising temperatures and changes in rainfall severely affect crop and livestock production in many African countries. We analyze records from two databases to identify how those shifts affect Afr…
Assessing climate-related non-economic loss and damage and rethinking the relation between L&D and adaptation
The international discourse on loss and damages (L&Ds) under the climate convention is ongoing. Significant attention has been given to a dedicated fund to assist vulnerable countries to recover from climate related L&D. While much of the political discussion focuses on the amount of funding needed and who should pay, less attention is given to risk reduction initiatives eligible for the L&D funding mechanisms. There is also an emerging need to l…
Climate change (22 obras) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (15 obras) · Environmental resource management (14 obras) · Geography (14 obras) · Climate change impacts on agriculture (13 obras) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (13 obras) · Computer Science (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Ecology (11 obras) · Business (10 obras)