Climate Data Analytics Applied to Sugar Cane Crop in the French West Indies

In recent decades, many studies have been focused on climate change. While several studies have addressed the problem on a global scale, very few studies have focused on targeted geographical areas. This is for example the case of Lesser islands in the Caribbean sea, for which very little works have been done to understand locally the impact of climate change. In this work, we focus on the Guadeloupe French island located in the French West Indies and we carried out a data driven approach that has two goals. We first conduct a data analytic work over the last 50 years in order to highlight witnesses of climate change. Then, we show the impacts of these disturbances on the agriculture sector, in particular on the sugar cane crop that is widely cultivated on the island. This approach, led by field data, provides insights on climate change challenges in this territory as well as their impacts on some crops sensitive to such kinds of disturbances.