The Badolo CottonResilience model for designing results-based cotton resilience policies to climate change

The cotton sector future configurations in sub-Saharan Africa will depend significantly on the efficiency of climate change resilience solutions implemented for this sector. These solutions should be based on the cotton sector economic, environmental, social, human, scientific, technological , institutional and political vulnerabilities to climate change. In the context of sub-Saharan Africa, the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of results-based climate resilience policies in the cotton sector will require scientific tools that improve knowledge for climate resilience.The main result of this article is the Badolo CottonResilience theoretical model for the design of the cotton sector resilience trajectories based on short-term, medium-term and long-term resilience objectives.The ClimResilience scientific framework approaches, methodological tools and resilience schemes are used. The resilience trajectories of the Badolo CottonResilience theoretical model plan and carry out configurations of the cotton sector on which climate change will only have residual impacts. They implement the concepts of climate change residual impacts, residual vulnerabilities, resilience configurations and resilience trajectories segments.