The ‘sustainable intensification’ (SI) approach and ‘climate-smart agriculture’ (CSA) are highly complementary. SI is an essential means of adapting to climate change, also resulting in lower emissions per unit of output. With its emphasis on improving risk management, information flows and local...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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Lipper, Leslie
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[Sustainable intensification: What is its role in climate smart agriculture?]
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Sustainable intensification: What is its role in climate smart agriculture?
Where power lies and how it is conceived in studies of governance and institutions is often not discussed. This is due to the ubiquitous nature of the topic. Power is shaped by a variety of institutional factors, including the architecture of governing structures, questions of scale and level, an...
Sova, Chase
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Helfgott, Ariella E.S.
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Chaudhury, Abrar S.
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Matthews, D.
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Thornton, Thomas F.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[Multi-level Stakeholder Influence Mapping: Visualizing Power Relations Across Actor Levels in Nepal’s Agricultural Climate Change Adaptation Regime]
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Multi-level Stakeholder Influence Mapping: Visualizing Power Relations Across Actor Levels in Nepal’s Agricultural Climate Change Adaptation Regime
Projections of the response of crop yield to climate change at different spatial scales are known to vary. However, understanding of the causes of systematic differences across scale is limited. Here, we hypothesize that heterogeneous cropping intensity is one source of scale dependency. Analysis...
Challinor, Andrew J.
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Parkes B
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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[Crop yield response to climate change varies with cropping intensity]
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Crop yield response to climate change varies with cropping intensity
Tropical agriculture must feed a growing population under increasingly challenging environmental conditions. Cassava has particularly critical roles to play. It is the third-most important tropical crop after rice and maize, providing livelihoods and food security for hundreds of millions of peop...
Hyman, Glenn
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Bellotti, Anthony C.
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Becerra López Lavelle, Luis Augusto
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Palmer, Neil
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Creamer, Bernardo
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[Cassava and overcoming the challenges of global climatic change: report of the second scientific conference of the Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st century]
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Cassava and overcoming the challenges of global climatic change: report of the second scientific conference of the Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st century
Cassava is attacked by a complex of arthropod pests across the tropical regions of the world where the crop is grown. Root yield losses have been recorded for several pests, including mites, mealybugs, whiteflies, hornworm, lacebugs, thrips and burrower bugs. Agronomic characteristics such as veg...
Bellotti, Anthony C.
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Herrera Campo, Beatriz Vanessa
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Hyman, Glenn
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[Cassava production and pest management: present and potential threats in a changing environment]
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Cassava production and pest management: present and potential threats in a changing environment
Agriculture is considered to be “climate-smart” when it contributes to increasing food security, adaptation and mitigation in a sustainable way. This new concept now dominates current discussions in agricultural development because of its capacity to unite the agendas of the agriculture, developm...
Neufeldt, Henry
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Jahn, Molly M.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Beddington, J.R.
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DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.
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Pinto, Alex de
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Gulledge, J
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Hellin, J.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Jarvis, Andy
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LeZaks, D
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Meinke, H
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Scholes, M
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Scholes, Robert J.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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[Beyond climate-smart agriculture: toward safe operating spaces for global food systems]
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Beyond climate-smart agriculture: toward safe operating spaces for global food systems
Swidden (also called shifting cultivation) has long been the dominant farming system in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA). Today the ecological bounty of this region is threatened by the expansion of settled agriculture, including the proliferation of rubber plantations. In the current conc...
Fox, J
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Castella, J.C.
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Ziegler, A.D.
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[Swidden, rubber and carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?]
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Swidden, rubber and carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?
Climate change has a number of observed, anticipated, or possible consequences on crop health worldwide. Global change, on the other hand, incorporates a number of drivers of change, including global population increase, natural resource evolution, and supply demand shifts in markets, from local ...
Savary, S.
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Nelson, A.
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Sparks, Adam H.
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Willocquet, L.
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Duveiller, E.
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Mahuku, George S.
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Forbes, G.
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Garrett, K.A.
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Hodson, D.
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Padgham, J.
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Pande, S.
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Sharma, M.
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Yuen, J.
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Djurle, A.
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[International agricultural research tackling the effects of global and climate changes on plant diseases in the developing world]
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International agricultural research tackling the effects of global and climate changes on plant diseases in the developing world
Rural and regional hinterlands provide the ecosystem service needs for increasingly urbanised communities across the globe. These inter-related ecosystem services provide key opportunities in securing climate change mitigation and adaptation. Their integrated management in the face of climate cha...
Oosterzee, P. van
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Dale, A.
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Preece, ND
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[Integrating agriculture and climate change mitigation at landscape scale: Implications from an Australian case study]
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Integrating agriculture and climate change mitigation at landscape scale: Implications from an Australian case study
In Uganda, weather-related events such as prolonged dry seasons, floods, storms, mudslides, extreme rainfall, and delayed/early rains have become more frequent and/or intense. This has left most of the rural poor farmers’ food insecure and their livelihoods threatened. A total of 192 sweetpotato ...
Okonya, J.
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Syndikus, K.
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Kroschel, J.
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[Farmers’ perception of and coping strategies to climate change: evidence from six agro-ecological zones of Uganda]
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Farmers’ perception of and coping strategies to climate change: evidence from six agro-ecological zones of Uganda