Volume 9 • Issue 11 • 1000761 J Food Process Technol, an open access journal ISSN: 2157-7110 Open Access Research Article Journal of Food Processing & Technology J o u r n a l o f F o o d P r o c es s i n g & T e c h n o l o g y ISSN: 2157-7110 Baoro et al., J Food Process Technol 2018, 9:11 DOI: 10.4172/2157-7110.1000761 *Corresponding author: Serge Kevin Gildas Soulé Baoro, School of Environment and Natural Resource Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan-Hubei Province, Luoshi Road 122, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China, Tel: 86-27-87871225, E-mail: soulegil@yahoo.fr Received August 30, 2018; Accepted October 04, 2018; Published October 08, 2018 Citation: Soulé Baoro SKG, Song S, Fagariba CJ (2018) Climate Change Adaptation and Agricultural Development in Central Africa Republic-Evidence of North-West. J Food Process Technol 9: 761. doi: 10.4172/2157-7110.1000761 Copyright: © 2018 Soulé Baoro SKG, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Abstract Farmers' perceptions ethno-weather climate change in the North-west of Central African local knowledge is based on experiences to explain and understand the recent climate change. These farmers' knowledge on climate change has been capitalized using the tools and techniques of socio-anthropological investigations (interview, questionnaire and focus group). The results show that over 80% of people have noted strong sunlight which is in fact the way to express higher temperatures. Facts suggestive manifestations of climate change including reducing the number of days of rain and the duration of the rainy season, early arrival and late withdrawal of the harmattan, the disappearance of animal and plant species and seasons announcing the disruption of the cropping calendar. These climatic perturbations lead the peasantry to develop strategies to adapt to endogenous consequences of the observed changes. Perceptions ethno-conventional meteorological data observed face can help analyze the real impacts of climate change in the North-western of Central African. A total of 225 small-scale farmers were sampled for survey and 100 key informants were used in focus group discussions. The logistic regression model used in the study indicated that education, transportation, income, inputs cost and extension services were the factors with high tendency of undermining farmers’ ability to adapt to climate change. In addition, Weighted Average Index used to measure weather extremes established that drought and temperature had the highest level of occurrence. Change in planting date, improved crops varieties, mixed cropping, and land rotation was the most preferred practices. The study concluded that farmer’s resilience could be enhanced if governments and concern organizations intensify adaptation campaigns and train farmers on adaptable practices including, use of improved seeds, subsidies, increasing Agriculture Extension Agents and provision of irrigation facilities were also good interventions to improve climate change resilience. Climate Change Adaptation and Agricultural Development in Central Africa Republic-Evidence of North-West Serge Kevin Gildas Soulé Baoro 1 *, Shaoxian Song 2 and Clifford James Fagariba 1 1 School of Environment and Natural Resource Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan-Hubei Province, Luoshi Road 122, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China 2 Hubei Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources Processing and Environment, Wuhan University of Technology, Luoshi Road 122, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China Keywords: Farmers; Perception; Agriculture; Climate change; Adaptation practices; Ethno-weather Introduction Countries and international organizations are making a conscious efort to address climate change threat to humanity. Economic activities including agriculture, mining, and infrastructure development in quest of satisfying global needs continuously degrade the natural eco- system. In developing countries, farmers are mostly afected by climate change as a result of factors including poor education, poor income, use of obsolete tools, high input cost and poor capacity building [1,2]. Unsustainable natural resource exploitation, especially in developing countries and the industrialization of developed countries for economic growth, has immeasurably triggered global warming, weather extremes, health issues, poor yield and extinction of certain plant and animals species [3,4]. Studies have shown that climate change continuously worsens drought and dry spell issues in most part of Africa hence threatening food security and poverty alleviation on the continent [5]. Other research suggested that Africa vast arable land is a great potential for economic growth if agricultural policies efciently address climate change threat [6,7]. About 90% of African countries dwell directly or indirectly on agriculture for employment, poverty alleviation and economic growth [8]. Terefore, the slow pace of researchers and policymakers in using pragmatic solutions to militate climate change constraints will probably have ripples efect on the continent. Related fndings indicate that Africa governments piecemeal way of implementing climate change policies have afected food security to the extent that countries within Sudan and the Sahel Region are likely to face severe famine and poverty by 2035 [9]. Formation of regional climate change networking system to share adaptation ideas and research fndings is of the essence since Africa continent have similar climatic conditions. Central Africa Republic (CAR) being one of the African countries with Agriculture as the economic backbone needs to tackle climate change constraints holistically by bringing on board all stakeholders who invariably contribute to agriculture promotion. Tere is established empirical evidence that CAR agriculture sector is dwindling as a result of poor sensitization of farmers and inadequate government support to tackle adaptation constraints [10]. Similar research by Armah et al. [11] hinted that climate change impact experienced highly afects farming communities in savanna areas and its environs. Agriculture in CAR is predominantly small scale with most of the farms less than 2 hectares due to a high cost of inputs and inadequate government support. A study by Mabe [8], indicated that subsistence agricultures are highly susceptible to climate change as a result of poor income level farmers and lack of alternative source of employment. Northwest of CAR is noted for producing food crops such as cassava, millet, guinea corn, rice... as a result of good climatic conditions for such crops. However, in recent times, unfavorable climatic conditions have exposed farmers to severe drought, low rainfall, high temperature, and diseases. Tis compelled most of the farmers to adapt, change planting period from early April to late June to avoid drought by either migrating to the South to look for the nonexistent job during