Symposium on Climate Change and Land Use and Land Management in Africa

Session

Presentation

25 Sept 2024, 13:00

Conveners

Presentation

• Mame Diarra Diouf (Research Assistant)

1. Climate change and Land degradetion in Ouagadougou

Mame Diarra Diouf (Research Assistant)

Land Management

Poster

Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso (~ 2.5 million people), consists of urban, peri-urban and rural areas. In the southern rural district of Koubri land use and vegetation cover changes are linked to population growth, economic activities and land pressure. The study highlights the environmental dynamics between 1992, 2002 and 2018 by multi-temporal mapping and supervised classification...