@article{Palazzo:246970,
      recid = {246970},
      author = {Palazzo, Amanda and Vervoort, Joost M. and Mason- D'Croz,  Daniel and Rutting, Lucas and Havlik, Petr and Islam,  Shahnila and Bayala, Jules and Kadi, Hame Kadi and  Thornton, Philip and Zougmore, Robert},
      title = {Interpreting the Shared Socio-economic Pathways under  Climate Change for the ECOWAS region through a stakeholder  and multi-model process},
      address = {2016-10-27T20:22:27Z},
      number = {310-2016-5365},
      pages = {27},
      month = {Oct},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {The IPCC community’s Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs)  are a set of alternative global development futures focused  on drivers of challenges to mitigation of and adaptation to  climate change. However, the impacts and drivers of  plausible future development at any national or regional  level have yet to be examined for consistency within the  global narrative.
In this paper, we present four  globally-consistent regional scenarios on Western Africa’s  development that have been used to test and develop a range  of national and regional policies. The regional scenarios  were outlined independently by regional stakeholders but  built around the context of the SSPs. The scenarios were  quantified using two agricultural models, GLOBIOM and  IMPACT, in interaction with drivers outlined by the SSPs  and guided by semi-quantitative information from the  stakeholders.
Our paper 1) demonstrates how linkages of  global SSPs and regional multi-stakeholder scenarios can be  achieved through a process of critical comparison, starting  from regional priorities, to produce consistent scenarios  for future regional development; 2) provides insights for  Western Africa on the future of development, agriculture,  food security and climate impacts in both qualitative and  quantitative scenarios; 3) reports on a set of scalable  scenarios for regional decision makers and the scientific  community to use to build and test robust agriculture and  climate policies.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/246970},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.246970},
}