This report presents 4 scenarios for the future of food security, agriculture, livelihoods and environments in East Africa. These scenarios were developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in collaboration with a wide range of regional stakeholders. Th...
Vervoort, Joost M.
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Palazzo, Amanda
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Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Förch, Wiebke
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Havlík, Petr
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Jost, Christine
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Rowlands, H.
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[The future of food security, environments and livelihoods in Eastern Africa: four socio-economic scenarios]
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The future of food security, environments and livelihoods in Eastern Africa: four socio-economic scenarios
Because vulnerability is a conceptual construct rather than a directly observable phenomenon,
most vulnerability assessments measure a set of “vulnerability indicators”. In order to identify
the core approaches and range of variation in the field, we conducted a systematic literature
review on lo...
Delaney, A.
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Chesterman, Sabrina
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Crane, Todd A.
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Tamás, Peter A.
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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[A systematic review of local vulnerability to climate change: in search of transparency, coherence and comparability]
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A systematic review of local vulnerability to climate change: in search of transparency, coherence and comparability
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
Lack of accurate maps on the extent of global cropland, and particularly the spatial distribution of major crop types, hampers policy and strategic investment and could potentially impede efforts to improve food security in an environment characterized by continued market volatility and a changin...
See, Linda
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Fritz, Steffen
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You, Liangzhi
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Ramankutty, R.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Justice, Chris
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Becker-Reshef, Inbal
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Erb, Karlheinz
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Gong, Peng
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Tang, H.
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Velde, M. van der
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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McCallum, Ian
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Kraxner, Florian
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Obersteiner, Michael
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[Improved global cropland data as an essential ingredient for food security]
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Improved global cropland data as an essential ingredient for food security
The focus of the great majority of climate change impact studies is on changes in mean climate. In terms of climate model output, these changes are more robust than changes in climate variability. By concentrating on changes in climate means, the full impacts of climate change on biological and h...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Challinor, Andrew J.
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[Climate variability and vulnerability to climate change: a review]
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Climate variability and vulnerability to climate change: a review
What would be the impacts of this kind of future on food security for the region s poor, who live under pressures of climate change? What new challenges would emerge? Could tensions arise from East Africa s assertion of power? What about a future where political and economic fragmentation continu...
Vervoort, Joost M.
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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[No foresight, no food? Regional scenarios for Africa and South Asia]
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No foresight, no food? Regional scenarios for Africa and South Asia
Global pressures on food security such as climate change, rising food prices and rising populations demand collaborative action from actors governing food systems across all levels and scales. This paper describes concerted efforts in East Africa, West Africa and South Asia to build capacity for ...
Vervoort, Joost M.
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Ingram, J.
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Chaudhury, M.
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Förch, Wiebke
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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[Multi-actor scenarios to build capacity for food systems governance at the sub-continental level]
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Multi-actor scenarios to build capacity for food systems governance at the sub-continental level
As adaptation to climate change is a major theme for CCAFS, the programme needs a method for monitoring and evaluating interventions intended to foster adaptation and enhance adaptive capacity across food systems. This report explored current approaches to monitoring and evaluation of climate cha...
Chesterman, Sabrina
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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[Monitoring adaptation to enhance food security: a survey of approaches and best practice]
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Monitoring adaptation to enhance food security: a survey of approaches and best practice
In this paper we focus on the issue of how climate change affects the way that agricultural systems
and the people that manage and govern them need to change in the next 20 years in order to
achieve food security, and how FAO and CGIAR can support that change. We build on a huge body
of lit...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Lipper, Leslie
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Baas, S.
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Cattaneo, Andrea
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Chesterman, Sabrina
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Cochrane, K.
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Young, C. de
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Etten, Jacob van
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Clerck, F. de
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Douthwaite, Boru
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DuVal A
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Fadda, Carlo
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Garnett, Tara
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Gerber, Pierre J.
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Howden, Mark
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Mann W
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McCarthy N
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Sessa R
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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[How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to support food security? Background paper for the conference "Food Security Futures: Research Priorities for the 21st Century" held in Dublin, Ireland, 11-12 April 2013]
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How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to support food security? Background paper for the conference "Food Security Futures: Research Priorities for the 21st Century" held in Dublin, Ireland, 11-12 April 2013