What are the key factors that contribute to household-level food security? What lessons can we learn
from food secure households? What agricultural options and management strategies are likely to benefit female-headed households in particular? This paper addresses these questions using a unique d...
Silvestri, Silvia
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Douxchamps, Sabine
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Förch, Wiebke
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Mutie, Ianetta
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Quirós, Carlos
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Ndungu, Anthony
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Ndiwa, Nicholas N.
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Mango, Joash
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Claessens, Lieven
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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[Households and food security: lessons from food secure households in East Africa]
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Households and food security: lessons from food secure households in East Africa
Agricultural development efforts that do not address persistent gender gaps miss opportunities for greater impact. This synthesis reflects on key findings from integrated quantitative and qualitative analyses at the nexus of gender, agricultural development, and climate change. Linked farm househ...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Bryan, Elisabeth
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Bernier, Quinn
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Kieran, Caitlin
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Ringler, Claudia
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Jost, Christine
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Doss, Cheryl
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[Addressing gender in agricultural research for development in the face of a changing climate: where are we and where should we be going?]
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Addressing gender in agricultural research for development in the face of a changing climate: where are we and where should we be going?
Adaptation strategies to reduce smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climate variability and seasonality are needed given the frequency of extreme weather events predicted to increase during the next decades in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in West Africa. We explored the linkages between sel...
Douxchamps, Sabine
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Silvestri, Silvia
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Moussa, Abdoulaye S.
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Quirós, Carlos
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Somé, Léopold
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Ouédraogo, Mathieu
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Buah, S.S.J.
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Wijk, Mark T. van
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Badiane Ndour, Ndèye Yacine
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[Linking agricultural adaptation strategies, food security and vulnerability: evidence from West Africa]
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Linking agricultural adaptation strategies, food security and vulnerability: evidence from West Africa
We identify and map critical spatial factors grouped into natural, human, social, financial and physical capital assets, which largely determine livelihood options, strategies and welfare of agro-pastoral communities in a semi-arid district of southern Kenya. Our approach builds upon new, relativ...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Baltenweck, Isabelle
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Ogutu, Joseph O.
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Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
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[Livelihood mapping and poverty correlates at a meso-level in Kenya]
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Livelihood mapping and poverty correlates at a meso-level in Kenya
A long history of household-level research has provided important local-level insights into climate
adaptation strategies in the agricultural sector. It remains unclear to what extent these strategies are generalizable or vary across regions. In this study we ask about three potential key factors...
Wood, SA
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Jina, AS
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Jain, M
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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DeFries, Ruth
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[Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions]
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Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions
The international workshop 'Rethinking Impact: Understanding the Complexity of Poverty and Change' (Cali, Colombia, 26-28 March 2008) explored the challenges inherent in evaluating agricultural research-for-development efforts, identifying lessons and approaches for sustainably improving liveliho...
Lilja, N.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Watts, J.
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[Rethinking impact: Understanding the complexity of poverty and change - overview]
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Rethinking impact: Understanding the complexity of poverty and change - overview
This study links participatory research methods, geographic information systems (GIS) techniques, village and household-level surveys, and a tobit analysis to examine the adoption and impact issues related to a new technology, improved varieties of dual-purpose cowpea (IDPC), developed by Interna...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Okike, I.
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Tarawali, Shirley A.
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Singh, B.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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[Farmers perceptions of benefits and factors affecting the adoption of improved dualpurpose cowpea in the dry savannas of Nigeria]
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Farmers perceptions of benefits and factors affecting the adoption of improved dualpurpose cowpea in the dry savannas of Nigeria
Agriculture and food security are key sectors for intervention under climate change. Agricultural production is highly vulnerable even to 2C (low-end) predictions for global mean temperatures in 2100, with major implications for rural poverty and for both rural and urban food security. Agricultur...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Ainslie, A.
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Angelone, C.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Challinor, Andrew J.
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Hansen, James
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Ingram, J.S.I.
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Jarvis, Andy
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Lau, Charlotte
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change]
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Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change