ABSTRACT
Climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are closely linked in the framework of international development efforts. The challenge of finding effective and efficient ways to mitigate and adapt to the effects of ongoing climate change is embedded in national development strategies, including stakeholders’ needs in local communities. Located some twenty-five and seventy kilometers east of the town of Atakpamé in the Ogou Prefecture (Plateau Region, Togo), the Lonlon cooperative in Bétoè has implemented less costly and effective local mechanisms to combat the effects of climate change. However, socio-cultural heritage can be an obstacle to the implementation of adaptation strategies. It was evidenced that the local techniques for increasing resilience against climate change developed by the cooperative Lonlon had a favorable echo within the Bétoè community, unlike that of Okougnohou where socio-cultural burdens stifle Konto cooperative initiatives. In fact, the Lonlon cooperative in Bétoè succeeded in gradually establishing an approach furnished with tact and skills enabled the community to adopt technical field schools; composting for soil regeneration; introduction of new seeds, and use of improved stoves.
