Abstract
This agroclimatic survey was the second undertaken jointly by FAO, UNESCO and WMO. The first was undertaken in the semi-arid zones of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran (1), (2). The second survey was started in 1963 and involved a belt of territory in West Africa 4,000 km long and up to 800 km wide, bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and on the east by the border between the republics of Chad and the Sudan. The zone lies roughly between 12° and 20° north latitude and includes parts of Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Upper Volta, Ghana, Togo, Dahomey, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References
Technical Report on a Study of Agroclimatology in Semi-Arid and Arid Zones of the Near East (FAO/Unesco/WMO Interagency Project on Agroclimatology) (FAO publication No. 23061/2).
A Study of Agroclimatology in Semi-Arid and Arid Zones of the Near East,by G.Perrin de Brichambaud and C.C.Wallen (WMO Technical Note No. 56).
Additional information
Summary prepared by G.W.Robertson, Canada Department of Agriculture,Ottawa, from a report by J.Cochemé published under the same title in Nature and Resources (Unesco), Vol. 2, number 4, 1–10, 1966.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Robertson, G.W. FAO/UNESCO/WMO agroclimatology survey of a semi-arid area south of the Sahara. Int J Biometeorol 11, 231–235 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01426853
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01426853