Many projections of the impact of climate change on the crop, livestock and fishery production sectors of African agriculture are reported in the literature. However, they may be arguably too general to understand the magnitude
of impact and to inform adaptation strategies and policy development ...
Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Partey, Samuel T.
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Ouédraogo, Mathieu
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Omitoyin, Bamidele
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Thomas, Timothy S.
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Ayantunde, Augustine A.
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Said, Mohammed Yahya
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Jalloh, Abdulai
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[Toward climate-smart agriculture in West Africa: a review of climate change impacts, adaptation strategies and policy developments for the livestock, fishery and crop production sectors]
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Toward climate-smart agriculture in West Africa: a review of climate change impacts, adaptation strategies and policy developments for the livestock, fishery and crop production sectors
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?
Climate change poses considerable challenges to food security. Adapting food systems both to enhance food security for the poor and vulnerable and to prevent future negative impacts from climate change will require attention to more than just agricultural production. This article surveys the mult...
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
Food is fundamental to human wellbeing and development. Increased food production remains a cornerstone strategy in the effort to alleviate global food insecurity. But despite the fact that global food production over the past half century has kept ahead of demand, today around one billion people...
Misselhorn, A.
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Gregory, P.
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Horn-Phathanothai, L.
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Ingram, J.
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Wiebe, K.
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[A vision for attaining food security]
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A vision for attaining food security