This summary note is an excerpt from the chapter on Ghana that will appear in the peer-reviewed IFPRI monograph, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis
Agriculture is essential to the economies of East African countries. Climate change, with its effects on temperature and precipitation, threatens this important economic activity. How to foster agricultural development and food security in East Africa as the effects of climate change become more ...
Waithaka, Michael
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Thomas, Timothy S.
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Kyotalimye, Miriam
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[East African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis. Issue Brief.]
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East African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis. Issue Brief.
The first decade of the 21st century has seen several harbingers of a troubled future for global food security. The food price spike of 2008, with its consequent food riots and resulting political changes in several countries, awoke the world’s leaders to the re-emergence of this threat to human ...
Nelson, Gerald C.
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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Palazzo, Amanda
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Gray I
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Ingersoll C
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Robertson, Richard D.
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Tokgoz S
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Zhu, T.
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Sulser TB
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Ringler, Claudia
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Msangi S
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You, Liangzhi
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[Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options]
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Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options
Including inland water bodies, Ghana covers 238,539 square kilometers and is located on the south central coast of West Africa. The country shares bor¬ders in the east with Togo, in the north with Burkina Faso, and in the west with Côte d’Ivoire. The topography of Ghana is mainly undulating, with...
Climate change has many facets, including changes in long-term trends in temperature and rainfall regimes with increasing year-to-year variability and a greater prevalence of extreme events. The effects of these changing conditions on agriculture are already being seen, yet there are still consid...
Wassmann, Reiner
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Peng SB
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Sumfleth K
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Jagadish, Krishna S.V.
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Hosen Y
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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[Rice and global climate change]
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Rice and global climate change
The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya, M...
Waithaka, Michael
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Thomas, Timothy S.
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Kyotalimye, Miriam
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[East African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis]
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East African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis
Niger is a landlocked country in West Africa located between 11°37´ and 23°23´ north latitude and between 00°10´ and 16°00´ east longitude, with an area of 1,267,000 square kilometers. Niger shares borders with Algeria and Libya in the north, Chad in the east, Nigeria and Benin in the south, and ...
This chapter provides an overview of the region, its current economic situ¬ation, and its vulnerability to climate change. It is designed to provide useful input into the efforts of ECOWAS in developing appropriate policies related to climate for the region. This chapter is followed by one that d...
Jalloh, Abdulai
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Faye, MD
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Roy-Macauley, Harold
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Sérémé, P
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Thomas, Timothy S.
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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[An overview of West African agriculture and climate change]
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An overview of West African agriculture and climate change
This book examins the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa - Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo - and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable f...
Jalloh, Abdulai
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Thomas, Timothy S.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Roy-Macauley, Harold
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[West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis]
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West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis
Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will inc...
Hachigonta, Sepo
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Thomas, Timothy S.
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Sibanda, Lindiwe Majele
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[Southern African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis. IFPRI Research Monograph]
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Southern African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis. IFPRI Research Monograph