Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Taigbé, Sub-Prefecture of Kamsar (Republic of Guinea)

Climate change remains one of the threats to sustainable development. In the Republic of Guinea, agriculture is largely dominated by family farms, which constitute almost all village agricultural activity units. The agricultural sector is the most affected by the effects of climate change. Agriculture plays an important role in the economy with 20% of the state budget. It is in order to understand how agriculture is influenced by climate change in Taigbé that we chose to work on “The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Taigbé, Kamsar Sub-Prefecture”. For this work, we set ourselves two objectives (i) to characterize endogenous practices of adaptation to climate change in Taïgbé, in the Kamsar Sub-Prefecture and (ii) to establish the change map. To process this work, survey and mapping methods were used in addition to the collection of statistical and climatic data. The results obtained show that farmers on the island of Taïgbé have developed some endogenous practices to cope with climate change, including market gardening (27%), fishing (26%), salt production (12%), small trade (8%) and other activities (27%). The study also reveals a loss of 208,883 ha of land, an increase in mangrove plains to 91,421 ha. In addition, in the area, there is a late start and early end of the rains. Most respondents (69%) identified the flooding of their fields as an impact of climate change in their locality. This study helped to understand that the major impact of rising sea levels is the loss of agricultural land due to flooding.