3rd Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance Forum Presentation given by Dr Issa Ouédraogo, CCAFS West Africa

1. Weather and climate information services (WCIS) as a
tool for risk management in the fisheries in Senegal
Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance Forum
(Dakar, 27 – 28 March 2019)
Issa Ouedraogo
Scientist – CCAFS/ICRISAT
Contact: i.ouedraogo@cigar.org

2. Outline
• Background
• WCIS and fisheries in Senegal
• Challenges

3. Background
Artisanal fishing in Senegal
• Economy of Senegal: heavily
dependent on agriculture, livestock
and fisheries
• Climate change has created
disruptions in agricultural and
livestock systems
• Large-scale conversion of farmers
and livestock keepers into fishermen
• Increased number of artisanal
fishermen (more than 200,000).

4. Background
Fisheries under climate change in Senegal
• Increasing extreme weather events: tides, swells, wind,
temperature, visibility, etc.
• Increasing number of accidents
Year # accident
# Death/
dismissed
# survivor
Material loss
(in USD)
2013 49 89 - 164,648
2014 63 116 298 102,995
2015 64 95 389 128,617
2016 85 98 475 73,437
2017 92 140 371 250,144
2018 61 90 366 114,607
TOTAL 414 628 1899 834,448
Average/year 69 105 380 139,075

5. WCIS and fisheries in Senegal
Need assessment
CINSERE
• High swell forecast
• High tides forecast
• Visibility forecast
• Wind forecast
• Potential lightning
zones
• Sea Surface
Temperature
• Radios
• Televisions
• SMS
• Voice message
• USSD
• Vigilance flags
• CLPA
• Emails
• Social networks
WCIS CHANNELS
Through stakeholders’ consultations

6. WCIS and fisheries in Senegal
WCIS products & dissemination channels developed
WCIS dissemination channelsWCIS Developed

7. WCIS and fisheries in Senegal
Training for fisher folks
To capacitate fisher folks to understand WCIS and use it effectively

8. WCIS and fisheries in Senegal
Types of decisions been taken and level of
adoption Level of satisfaction
Information sharing among fishermen
Types de decisions taken

9. WCIS and fisheries in Senegal
Perceptions of users
Impacts of the use of WCIS
Reasons for non-adoption of WCIS
Most important WCIS

10. WCIS and fisheries in Senegal
Major challenges
• Luck of permanent funding sources for the WCIS
system
• Production of weekly or 10-day weather forecasts
• Production of potential lightning zones
• Limited mobile and radio networks coverage in deep
sea
• Difficulty of involving fisher folks in the cost of WCIS
system

11. Questions
Answers
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