Author(s)

Oble Neya^1*, Tiga Neya^2,3, Akwasi. A. Abunyewa⁴, Benewinde J.-B. Zoungrana¹, Hypolite Tiendrebeogo⁵, Kangbeni Dimobe¹, Joël Awouhidia Korahire⁶

¹Competence Center, West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
²National Council for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Environment, Green Economy and Climate Change, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
³Department of Civil Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Sciences and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
⁴Department of Agroforestry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Sciences and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
⁵Ministry of Agriculture and hydraulic, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
⁶Institute of Society Sciences, National Center for Scientific and Technological Research, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Sahel zone has been reported as one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change, so serious attention must be paid to this zone by researchers and development actors who are interested in environmental-human dynamics and interactions. The aim of this study was to bring more insight into the impact of actions aiming at reducing land degradation, regreening the Sahel, stopping population migration and reducing the pressure on land in the Sahelian zone. The study focused on farmland dynamic in Ouahigouya municipality based on remote sensing data from 1986 to 2016 using intensity analysis. The annual time interval change was 0.77% and 2.46% for 1986-2001 and 2001-2016, respectively. Farmlands gained from mixt vegetation, water bodies and from bar lands. Mixed vegetation and water bodies were both active during both intervals while the other land use such as woodland and bar land were dormant. Combining land use land cover analysis and intensity analysis was found to be effective for assessing the differentiated impact of the various land restoration actions.

Farmland Dynamics, Intensity Analysis, Land Use Land Cover, Vegetation, West Africa, Climate Smart Agriculture

Neya, O. , Neya, T. , Abunyewa, A. , Zoungrana, B. , Tiendrebeogo, H. , Dimobe, K. and Korahire, J. (2020) Land Use Land Cover Dynamics and Farmland Intensity Analysis at Ouahigouya Municipality of Burkina Faso, West Africa. American Journal of Climate Change, 9, 23-33. doi: 10.4236/ajcc.2020.91003.