Replication Data for: Vulnerability to climate change of cocoa in West Africa: Patterns, opportunities and limits to adaptationhttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5W7LGWSchroth, GötzLäderach, PeterMartinez Valle, ArmandoBunn, ChristianJassogne, LaurenceHarvard Dataverse2016-03-232019-07-08T16:06:45ZWe use a combination of a statistical model of climatic suitability (Maxent) and the analysis of individual, potentially limiting climate variables. We find that: 1) contrary to expectation, maximum dry season temperatures are projected to become as or more limiting for cocoa as dry season water availability; 2) to reduce the vulnerability of cocoa to excessive dry season temperatures, the systematic use of adaptation strategies like shade trees in cocoa farms will be necessary, in reversal of the current trend of shade reduction; 3) there is a strong differentiation of climate vulnerability within the cocoa belt, with the most vulnerable areas near the forest-savanna transition in Nigeria and eastern Côte d'Ivoire, and the least vulnerable areas in the southern parts of Cameroon, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia; 4) this spatial differentiation of climate vulnerability may lead to future shifts in cocoa production within the region, with the opportunity of partially compensating losses and gains, but also the risk of local production expansion leading to new deforestation.Agricultural SciencesEarth and Environmental SciencesClimate change adaptationClimatic dataDeforestationDrought stressTheobroma cacaoLatin America and the CaribbeanDecision and Policy Analysis - DAPAEnglishSchroth, G., Läderach, P., Martinez-Valle, A., Bunn, C. and Jassogne, L. 2016. “Vulnerability to climate change of cocoa in West Africa: Patterns, opportunities and limits to adaptation” Science of The Total Environment (ScienceDirect)., doi, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.0242016-03-23Martinez Valle, Armando2016-03-1720122015Geospatial DataClimate DataGIS DataTiff filesWest Africa<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br /> These data and documents are licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank"> Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.</a> You may copy, distribute and transmit the data as long as you acknowledge the source through proper <a href="http://best-practices.dataverse.org/data-citation/" target="_blank">data citation</a>.