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Climate perceptions, impacts and responses: a synthesis of lessons from eight African countries
(International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, 2015) Degefu, M.A.; Tolo, C.U.; Opiyo, F.; Mudombi-Rusinamhodzi, G.; Pauline, M.; Ayeni, A.O.; Djohy, G.; Nicole, S.T.; Ouinakonha, C.M.; Galiné, Y.
The paper has synthesised case study findings of research in 8 countries from across the African continent: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal, Benin, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. Each case study had different aims and objectives, but broadly speaking all were investigating aspects of climate change adaptation. Findings across the case studies show that perceptions of change in temperature and precipitation parameters are widely perceived by farmers and fishers in the case study communities and, by and large (although not always exactly), these perceptions match the reality as from the observational records