Table 1.
Comparison of vulnerability indices.
Fig 1.
Schematic representation of the vulnerability conceptual framework.
Source: Authors’ conceptualization.
Fig 2.
Source: Authors’ conceptualization.
Fig 3.
Maize crop calendar for Cameroon.
Source: Authors’ conceptualization.
Fig 4.
Millet crop calendar for Cameroon.
Source: Authors’ conceptualization.
Fig 5.
Rice crop calendar for Cameroon.
Source: Authors’ conceptualization.
Fig 6.
National scale observed (a) Maize yield, (b) Millet yield and (c) Rice yield for Cameroon based on a polynomial model. Source: Authors’ conceptualization.
Fig 7.
National scale observed (a) Maize growing season precipitation, (b) Millet growing season precipitation and (c) Rice growing season precipitation for Cameroon. Source: Authors’ conceptualization.
Fig 8.
Simulated national scale (a) Vulnerability Index, (b) Exposure index, (c) Sensitivity Index and (d) Adaptive Capacity Index for Cameroon. Source: Authors’ conceptualization.
Fig 9.
Simulated national scale vulnerability, exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity indices.
Source: Authors’ conceptualization.
Table 2.
National scale vulnerability indices and R2 of the linear and polynomial models.
Table 3.
Sub-national vulnerability indices at four sub-national sites.
Fig 10.
Sub-national growing season precipitation trends for Western Highland rice, Southern maize, Northern maize, and millet.
**northern maize and millet are computed from the same growing season precipitation, reason why they are identical i.e., growing season for Northern millet equals growing season for northern maize. Source: Authors’ conceptualization.
Fig 11.
Latitudinal evolution of sub-national maize vulnerability indices, adaptive capacity indices and normalized maize growing season precipitation in Cameroon.
Source: Authors’ conceptualization.
Fig 12.
Schematic of options to improve rice yields in Cameroon.
Source: Authors’ conceptualization.