Agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa faces daunting challenges, which climate change and increasing climate variability will compound in vulnerable areas. The impacts of a changing climate on agricultural production in a world that warms by 4°C or more are likely to be severe in places....
Thornton, Philip K.
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Jones, Peter G.
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Challinor, Andrew J.
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[Agriculture and food systems in sub-Saharan Africa in a 4°C+ world]
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Agriculture and food systems in sub-Saharan Africa in a 4°C+ world
Research and action toward better food security, environmental health and rural livelihoods under climate change in the developing world must deal with interacting natural and human systems change processes across multiple dimensions (e.g. biophysical, economic, policy, temporal) and scales (e.g....
Thornton, Philip K.
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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Förch, Wiebke
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Kok K
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Ingram J
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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[The role of regional scenarios in CCAFS cross-scale research, planning and action toward improved food security, environments and livelihoods]
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The role of regional scenarios in CCAFS cross-scale research, planning and action toward improved food security, environments and livelihoods
Ericksen, Polly J.
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Crane, Todd A.
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[The feasibility of low emissions development interventions for the East African livestock sector: Lessons from Kenya and Ethiopia]
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The feasibility of low emissions development interventions for the East African livestock sector: Lessons from Kenya and Ethiopia
Most research linking global environmental change and food security focuses solely on agriculture: either the impact of climate change on agricultural production, or the impact of agriculture on the environment, e.g. on land use, greenhouse gas emissions, pollution and/or biodiversity. Important ...
This paper outlines a framework for studying the multiple interactions of broadly defined food systems with global environmental change and evaluating the major societal outcomes affected by these interactions: food security, ecosystem services and social welfare. In building the framework the pa...
Ericksen, Polly J.
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[Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research]
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Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research
Assessing the vulnerability of broadly described food systems to global environmental change requires a new, synthetic approach. Food systems can best be conceptualized as the integration of humans and the environment or coupled social-ecological systems. However, much of the existing literature ...
Ericksen, Polly J.
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[What is the vulnerability of a food system to global environmental change?]
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What is the vulnerability of a food system to global environmental change?
Zwaagstra, L.
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Sharif, Z.
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Wambile, A.
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Leeuw, Jan de
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Said, Mohammed Yahya
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Johnson, Nancy L.
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Njuki, Jemimah
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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[An assessment of the response to the 2008 2009 drought in Kenya]
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An assessment of the response to the 2008 2009 drought in Kenya
In August 2010, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) sub-Regional Emergency Office for Eastern and Central Africa (REOA) contracted the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) to develop a proto-type “Livestock Drought Management” (LDM) decision support tool for use by a range of...
Herrero, Mario T.
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MacMillan, Susan
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Johnson, Nancy L.
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Duncan, Alan J.
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Grace, Delia
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[Improving food production from livestock]
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Improving food production from livestock
This is one of a series of documents that summarises information relating to the livestock sector in the three PCSL countries (Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda). Prevailing livestock systems and their baseline performance in Ethiopia is summarised first, followed by a summary of what is known about the...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Enahoro, Dolapo
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Njiru, Nelly
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Wijk, Mark T. van
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Ashley, Laurie
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Cramer, Laura
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Graham, Michael
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[Program for climate-smart livestock systems. Country stocktake: Ethiopia]
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Program for climate-smart livestock systems. Country stocktake: Ethiopia