Climate change and production of corn : Perceptions and effects on the municipality of Allada in Benin
2019
BEHANZIN, Précieux Christian | BRISSO, Djamilatou | SAINOU, Jadix | FATON, Daniéla
French. Climate change now constitutes a reality whose effects are observable in all business sectors and even more in agriculture. So that the producers adapt to these changes, it is necessary to them to have a better understanding of their effects on the production of their speculations. The present search analyzes the determiners of the perception of climate change as well as their effects on the production of the corn in the municipality of Allada in Benin. For that purpose, besides the document retrieval realized with a record of reading and the socio-anthropological investigation realized on a sample of 150 producers of corn of the municipality by means of a questionnaire; data resulting from the Agency for the Safety of the Aviation in Africa and in Madagascar ASECNA (pluviometry and temperature) and of the Direction of the Agricultural Statistics (production) were used. From these various data, three analyses were made: a descriptive analysis of the socioeconomic data and two econometric modellings by means of statistical software (Excel, SPSS, STATA et EVIEWS). This research, on one hand, showed from a logistic regression that the producers of corn owners of the lands whom they exploit, members of a peasant organization and having a number of years of experience raised in the production have a higher chance to perceive the effects of climate change. On the other hand, it allowed concluding from an estimation by the method from the slightest squared ordinary according to Ricardo's model that the pluviometry is significantly and positively correlated to the production of corn to Allada.
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