TY - CPAPER AB - 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. AU - Palazzo, Amanda AU - Vervoort, Joost M. AU - Mason- D'Croz, Daniel AU - Rutting, Lucas AU - Havlik, Petr AU - Islam, Shahnila AU - Bayala, Jules AU - Kadi, Hame Kadi AU - Thornton, Philip AU - Zougmore, Robert DA - 2016-10-27T20:22:27Z DA - 2016-10-27T20:22:27Z DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.246970 DO - doi ID - 246970 KW - Environmental Economics and Policy KW - Resource/Energy Economics and Policy L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/246970/files/306.%20Climate%20change%20in%20ECOWAS.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/246970/files/306.%20Climate%20change%20in%20ECOWAS.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/246970/files/306.%20Climate%20change%20in%20ECOWAS.pdf LA - eng LA - English LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/246970/files/306.%20Climate%20change%20in%20ECOWAS.pdf N2 - 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. PY - 2016-10-27T20:22:27Z PY - 2016-10-27T20:22:27Z T1 - Interpreting the Shared Socio-economic Pathways under Climate Change for the ECOWAS region through a stakeholder and multi-model process TI - Interpreting the Shared Socio-economic Pathways under Climate Change for the ECOWAS region through a stakeholder and multi-model process UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/246970/files/306.%20Climate%20change%20in%20ECOWAS.pdf Y1 - 2016-10-27T20:22:27Z ER -