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Benjamin Sultan is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France and focuses their research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work addresses significant challenges related to climate change and its impacts on agriculture, particularly in West Africa.

Their research spans several main topics, including:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Climate variability and models
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact

Benjamin Sultan has contributed to a variety of subfields, particularly:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science
  • Soil Science
  • Genetics

The researcher has published frequently in notable venues such as:

  • Nature
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • Sustainability
  • Field Crops Research

Selected recent publications illustrate the scope of their work and include:

  • "Pearl millet genomic vulnerability to climate change in West Africa highlights the need for regional collaboration," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "A deep catalogue of protein-coding variation in 983,578 individuals," 2024, Nature
  • "Genotyping, sequencing and analysis of 140,000 adults from Mexico City," 2023, Nature
  • "Current needs for climate services in West Africa: Results from two stakeholder surveys," 2020, Climate Services
  • "Impact of Climate Change in West Africa on Cereal Production Per Capita in 2050," 2020, Sustainability

Coauthorship patterns show collaboration with a core group of frequent colleagues, including:

  • Evan K. Maxwell
  • Gonçalo R. Abecasis
  • Luca A. Lotta
  • Joshua Backman
  • George Mitra

Benjamin Sultan's contributions also extend to book publications with publishers such as IRD Éditions eBooks and United Nations Environment Programme eBooks. Notable works include:

  • "Risques climatiques et agriculture en Afrique de l'Ouest," 2020
  • "Knowledge Gaps and Policy Needs to Tackle Loss and Damage - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #8," 2024

Best Publications

  • The West African Monsoon Dynamics. Part II: The “Preonset” and “Onset” of the Summer Monsoon

    Benjamin Sultan;Serge Janicot

  • The impact of future climate change on West African crop yields: What does the recent literature say?

    Philippe Roudier;Benjamin Sultan;Philippe Quirion;Alexis Berg

  • Agriculture in West Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Climate Change and Impacts Scenarios, and Potential for Adaptation

    Benjamin Sultan;Marco Gaetani

  • Abrupt shift of the ITCZ over West Africa and intra‐seasonal variability

    Benjamin Sultan;Serge Janicot

  • Assessing climate change impacts on sorghum and millet yields in the Sudanian and Sahelian savannas of West Africa

    Benjamin Sultan;Philippe Roudier;P. Quirion;Agali Alhassane

  • Seasonal evolution of the West African heat low: a climatological perspective

    Christophe Lavaysse;Cyrille Flamant;Serge Janicot;Douglas J. Parker

  • Climate Drives the Meningitis Epidemics Onset in West Africa

    Benjamin Sultan;Karima Labadi;Jean-François Guégan;Serge Janicot

  • The West African monsoon dynamics. Part I: Documentation of intraseasonal variability

    Benjamin Sultan;Serge Janicot;Arona Diedhiou

  • Agricultural impacts of large-scale variability of the West African monsoon

    Benjamin Sultan;Christian Baron;Michael Dingkuhn;Benoît Sarr

  • Evidence of crop production losses in West Africa due to historical global warming in two crop models.

    Benjamin Sultan;Dimitri Defrance;Toshichika Iizumi

  • From GCM grid cell to agricultural plot: scale issues affecting modelling of climate impact

    Christian Baron;Benjamin Sultan;Maud Balme;Benoit Sarr

  • Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006

    S. Janicot;C. D. Thorncroft;A. Ali;N. Asencio

  • The role of climate forecasts in smallholder agriculture: Lessons from participatory research in two communities in Senegal

    Philippe Roudier;Bertrand Muller;Patrick D'Aquino;Carla Roncoli

  • The onset of the rainy season and farmers' sowing strategy for pearl millet cultivation in Southwest Niger

    Romain Marteau;Benjamin Sultan;Vincent Moron;Agali Alhassane

  • Evaluation of 23 gridded precipitation datasets across West Africa

    Frédéric Satgé;Dimitri Defrance;Benjamin Sultan;Marie-Paule Bonnet

  • What controls the isotopic composition of the African monsoon precipitation? Insights from event‐based precipitation collected during the 2006 AMMA field campaign

    Camille Risi;Sandrine Bony;Francoise Vimeux;Luc Descroix

  • Projections of climate change impacts on potential C4 crop productivity over tropical regions

    A. Berg;N. de Noblet-Ducoudre;Benjamin Sultan;Matthieu Lengaigne

  • Intraseasonal variability of the West African monsoon

    S. Janicot;G. Caniaux;F. Chauvin;G. de Coëtlogon

  • Intra-seasonal modulation of convection in the West African Monsoon

    Serge Janicot;Benjamin Sultan

  • Robust features of future climate change impacts on sorghum yields in West Africa

    Benjamin Sultan;Kaiyu Guan;Mamoutou Kouressy;Michela Biasutti

  • Relationships between climate and year-to-year variability in meningitis outbreaks: A case study in Burkina Faso and Niger

    Pascal Yaka;Benjamin Sultan;Hélène Broutin;Hélène Broutin;Serge Janicot

Frequent Co-Authors

Thierry Lebel
Thierry Lebel Grenoble Alpes University
Martial Bernoux
Martial Bernoux Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Serge Janicot
Serge Janicot Sorbonne University
Philippe Quirion
Philippe Quirion Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Bertrand Muller
Bertrand Muller INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Michaël Dingkuhn
Michaël Dingkuhn Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Josyane Ronchail
Josyane Ronchail Sorbonne University
Mathieu Vrac
Mathieu Vrac Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Xuhui Wang
Xuhui Wang Peking University
Jinfeng Chang
Jinfeng Chang Zhejiang University

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