This paper discusses the key information needs to reduce the negative impacts of weather variability and climate change on land degradation and food security, and identifies the opportunities and barriers between the information and services needed. It suggests that vulnerability assessments base...
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Baethgen, Walter E.
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Cooper, Peter J.M.
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Gommes R
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Lee B
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Meinke H
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Rathore LS
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Sivakumar MVK
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[Managing climatic risks to combat land degradation and enhance food security: key information needs]
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Managing climatic risks to combat land degradation and enhance food security: key information needs
This paper identifies sixteen cases of large-scale actions in the agriculture and forestry sectors that have adaptation and/or mitigation outcomes, and distils lessons from the cases. The cases cover policy and strategy development (including where climate-smart objectives were not the initial ai...
Cooper, Peter J.M.
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Cappiello S
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Kinyangi, James
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[Large-scale implementation of adaptation and mitigation actions in agriculture]
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Large-scale implementation of adaptation and mitigation actions in agriculture
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), rainfed agriculture is the dominant source of food production. Over the past 50 years much agronomic crop research has been undertaken, and the results of such work are used in formulating recommendations for farmers. However, since rainfall is highly variable across ...
Dixit PN
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Cooper, Peter J.M.
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Dimes, John P.
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Rao, K.P.C.
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[Adding value to field-based agronomic research through climate risk assessment: a case study of maize production in Kitale, Kenya]
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Adding value to field-based agronomic research through climate risk assessment: a case study of maize production in Kitale, Kenya
Cooper, Peter J.M.
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Coe, R.
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Stern, RD
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[Assessing and addressing climate-induced risk in Sub-Saharan rainfed agriculture]
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Assessing and addressing climate-induced risk in Sub-Saharan rainfed agriculture