Current Status and Trends in Cabo Verde Agriculture

摘要: With climate change, drought is expected to increase, and its negative impacts will be particularly important in developing countries, usually with rainfall-dependent agriculture. The Cabo Verde archipelago characterized by limited resources, remoteness, vulnerability natural disasters, a fragile environment. In this study, we provide the first report of current status trends agriculture Verde. We present data on performance agricultural production areas these islands discuss them terms their most constraint, water. Also, assess impact institutional strategies crop evaluate recent mechanisms that have been engaged towards agrarian development archipelago. Our results show that, among ten Islands, Santiago has largest area used for (52.5%), followed Santo Antao (16%) Fogo (15.8%), rainfed farming dominates all them. staple crops, such as maize beans, are produced through subsistence farming, whereas irrigated crops (i.e., sugarcane, tomatoes) mostly grown commercial purposes. prolonged periods, exposure, erosion soil degradation, which led increasing desertification over last decades, identified main constraints across government mitigate water scarcity small-scale irrigation based mainly small dams drip technology marked effect predominantly arid semi-arid