Land Use Land Cover Dynamics and Farmland Intensity Analysis at Ouahigouya Municipality of Burkina Faso, West Africa
- American Journal of Climate Change , 9 : 23-33
Résumé
Sahel zone has been reported as one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change, so serious attention must be paid to this zone by researchers and development actors who are interested in environmental-human dynamics and interactions. The aim of this study was to bring more insight into the impactof actions aiming at reducing land degradation, regreening the Sahel, stop-ping population migration and reducing the pressure on land in the Sahelianzone. The study focused on farmland dynamic in Ouahigouya municipalitybased on remote sensing data from 1986 to 2016 using intensity analysis. Theannual time interval change was 0.77% and 2.46% for 1986-2001 and 2001-2016,respectively. Farmlands gained from mixt vegetation, water bodies and from barlands. Mixed vegetation and water bodies were both active during both intervalswhile the other land use such as woodland and bar land were dormant. Com-bining land use land cover analysis and intensity analysis was found to be ef-fective for assessing the differentiated impact of the various land restoration actions.
Mots-clés
Farmland Dynamics, Intensity Analysis, Land Use Land Cover, Vegetation, West Africa, Climate Smart Agriculture