Addressing future food demand in The Gambia: can increased crop productivity and climate change adaptation close the supply-demand gap?

ABSTRACT: With rising demand for food and the threats posed by climate change, The Gambia faces significant challenges in ensuring sufficient and nutritious food for its population. To address these challenges, there is a need to increase domestic food production while limiting deforestation and land degradation. In this study, we modified the FABLE Calculator, a food and land-use system model, to focus on The Gambia to simulate scenarios for future food demand and increasing domestic food production. We considered the impacts of climate change on crops, the adoption of climate change adaptation techniques, as well as the potential of enhanced fertiliser use and irrigation to boost crop productivity, and assessed whether these measures would be sufficient to meet the projected increase in food deman

SUBMITTER: Carr TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11102352 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature