The impacts of a warming world are affecting food production in every corner of the globe. From shifting rainfall patterns and growing seasons, to more frequent and extreme droughts and floods, to increasingly severe pest and disease outbreaks among crops and livestock, farming as we know it is u...
Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Birch, James
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Meza, Laura
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Sunga, Ishmael
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Bong, Bui Ba
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Rabbinge, Rudy
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Reddy, Matthew
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Dinesh, Dhanush
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Korner, Jana
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Millan, Alberto
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Hansen, James
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Huyer, Sophia
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture]
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Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture
The growing demand for construction and fuel wood and the wide adaptation of Eucalyptus to the different agro-ecological zones of the country are resulting in increased plantation of Eucalyptus by smallholders, but the policy environment in Ethiopia discourages farmers from planting this exotic. ...
Mekonnen, Z.
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Kassa, H.
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Lemenh, M.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[The role and management of Eucalyptus in Lode Hetosa district, central Ethiopia]
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The role and management of Eucalyptus in Lode Hetosa district, central Ethiopia
The study provides a comparative analysis of the devolution and empowerment process in 14 case studies drawn from eight countries in southern Africa. Each case study examined the extent to which policy and legislation devolves significant control over decision making and benefit flows to communit...
Shackleton, S.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Devolution in natural resource management: institutional arrangements and power shifts: a synthesis of case studies from southern Africa]
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Devolution in natural resource management: institutional arrangements and power shifts: a synthesis of case studies from southern Africa
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Shackleton, S.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Overview: institutional arrangements for managing woodlands]
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Overview: institutional arrangements for managing woodlands
Conservation organizations are increasingly turning to landscape approaches to achieve a balance between conservation and development goals. We use six case studies in Africa and Asia to explore the role of participatory modeling with stakeholders as one of the steps towards implementing a landsc...
Sandker, M.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Cowling, R.M.
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Kassa, H.
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Knight, A.
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[The role of participatory modeling in landscape approaches to reconcile conservation and development]
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The role of participatory modeling in landscape approaches to reconcile conservation and development
Although tree planting initiatives by the state began by the end of the nineteenth century, on-farm tree planting has not been widespread, particularly on plots outside homesteads. Farmers particularly in central and northern Ethiopia are limited to growing trees mainly at homesteads indicating t...
Kassa, H.
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Bekele, M.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Reading the landscape past -update: explaining the lack of on-farm tree planting in Ethiopia]
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Reading the landscape past -update: explaining the lack of on-farm tree planting in Ethiopia
Throughout Southern Africa there has been a move to decentralize natural resource management (NRM). Decentralization has taken many forms, resulting in different organizational structures for NRM. Fourteen case studies from eight countries can be classed into four types, depending on the key orga...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Shackleton, S.
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[The organizational structures for community-based natural resources management in Southern Africa]
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The organizational structures for community-based natural resources management in Southern Africa
This paper reviewed the prospects for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) development and promotion in West Africa as well as lessons learnt and challenges with a focus on climate change and variability. It was evident from the literature that West Africa is vulnerable to climate change and variabili...
Partey, Samuel T.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Ouédraogo, Mathieu
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Developing climate-smart agriculture to face climate variability in West Africa: challenges and lessons learnt]
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Developing climate-smart agriculture to face climate variability in West Africa: challenges and lessons learnt
Agriculture is well represented in Parties’ adaptation and mitigation strategies as communicated in their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). There is much attention to conventional agricultural practices that...
Richards, Meryl
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Bruun, T.B.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Gregersen LE
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Huyer, Sophia
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Kuntze, V.
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Madsen STN
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Oldvig MB
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Vasileiou, Ioannis
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[How countries plan to address agricultural adaptation and mitigation]
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How countries plan to address agricultural adaptation and mitigation
Analysis of agriculture in countries’ climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies finds: Most Parties to the UNFCCC include agriculture in their mitigation targets (80%) and adaptation strategies (64%); Non-annex 1 Parties note the need for international financial support to implement the...
Richards, Meryl
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Gregersen L
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Kuntze, V.
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Madsen S
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Oldvig MB
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Vasileiou, Ioannis
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[Agriculture's prominence in the INDCs]
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Agriculture's prominence in the INDCs