**5. Categorization of actual adaptation actions in the Sahel**

In terms of broad adaptation categories, four key categories of broad adaptation actions were identified. All other actions fall within any of these four categories, these include: (i) technically based actions; (ii) indigenous problem-solving based; actions; (iii) socially based actions and (iv) economics-based actions (**Figure 5**).

Technically based adaptation actions recorded the highest number of adaptation actions with a frequency of 206 or 49%. The other broad-based categories in order of importance are: Indigenous problem-solving based options with a frequency of 173 or 41.7% (**Table 2**), socially related based actions with a frequency of 21 or 5% and economics-based actions with frequencies of 14 or 3.3%. Though the technically based actions are leading, Kenya has the highest number


#### **Table 2.**

*Four categories of adaptation actions in the Sahel.*

of total adaptation actions. The indigenous problem-solving based actions recorded 39 or 9.4%. Similarly, in Senegal, indigenous problem-solving adaptation recorded a frequency of 34 or 8.2%. When all the categories are put together, the frequencies for the latter category, does not outbid the former (**Figure 5**). Regionally, the West African Sahel recorded the highest number of adaptation actions and tallied highest in the context of technically based adaptation actions with a frequency of 133 or 32.1%. In terms of other regions, East Africa records the second highest frequency as technically based adaptation actions recorded 64 or 15.4% (**Figure 6**).

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#### **Figure 6.**

*Composite distribution of categorized number of adaptations options reported in the peer review literature published between 1975 and 2015 for various regions of the Sahel.*
