Globally, agriculture is the mainstay of most well planned economies because it contributes significantly to the national GDP, creates employment, provides food for human sustenance, raw materials for industry and earns foreign exchange. Nigeria is blessed with tremendous agricultural resources s...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Abubakar Y
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Conway, G.
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Dziba L
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Hoevel M
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Ibe C
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Ibrahim A
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Olokor J
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Ifeijka Speranza, Chinwe
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[National Agricultural Resilience Framework]
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National Agricultural Resilience Framework
Climate change demands new approaches to agriculture: farmers’ practices will need to change to adapt to and mitigate the effects of changing conditions. Addressing gender inequality is key to ensuring this outcome. Agriculture is a fundamental part of women’s livelihoods globally, most markedly ...
Huyer, Sophia
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Koningstein, Manon
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Hill, Catherine
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[Climate change, policy change: Five policy lessons to support women farmers in a changing climate]
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Climate change, policy change: Five policy lessons to support women farmers in a changing climate
The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted under the Paris Agreement propose a country’s contribution to global mitigation efforts and domestic adaptation initiatives. This paper provides a systematic analysis of NDCs submitted by South Asian nations, in order to assess how far thei...
Amjath-Babu, T.S.
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement]
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Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement
Global food chains and increasingly interlinked economies mean countries need to work together to reduce emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas.
As climate change pushes livestock, crop and tree production systems towards new realities, societies may seek more comprehensive solutions. Examples of truly radical adaptation — pre-emptive actions at scale that address the root causes of climate risks and reduce climatic footprint — are still ...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Mason M
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Dinesh, Dhanush
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Adolph, Barbara
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[Radical adaptation in agriculture: tackling the roots of climate vulnerability]
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Radical adaptation in agriculture: tackling the roots of climate vulnerability
Successful value chain interventions that achieve poverty reduction goals can in themselves be beneficial to climate change adaption, as they build farmers’ assets and institutional linkages. But climate change can have major effects on the outcomes of IFAD-supported value chain interventions for...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[How to do Climate change risk assessments in value chain projects]
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How to do Climate change risk assessments in value chain projects
As countries around the world face urgent agricultural challenges, the concept of ‘climate-smart’ agriculture (CSA) has been put forward to achieve climate change adaptation, mitigation, and food security synergistically. A new report explores how three countries are using integrated policy appro...
Negra, Christine
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Barioni, Luís Gustavo
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Mamo, Tekalign
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Melville, Paul
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Tadesse, Melaku
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[Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand lead the way on climate-smart agriculture]
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Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand lead the way on climate-smart agriculture