Impacts of climate change on rice production in Africa and causes of simulated yield changes

Abstract

This study is the first of its kind to quantify possible effects of climate change onrice production in Africa. We simulated impacts on rice in irrigated systems (dry sea-son and wet season) and rainfed systems (upland and lowland). We simulated theuse of rice varieties with a higher temperature sum as adaptation option. We simu-lated rice yields for 4 RCP climate change scenarios and identified causes of yielddeclines.