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 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
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
Even with global emissions of greenhouse gases drastically reduced in the coming years, the global annual average temperature is expected to be 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2050. A 2°C warmer world will experience more intense rainfall and more frequent and more intense droughts, floods, he...
Margulis S
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Narain U
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Chinowsky, P.
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Cretegny, L.
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Hughes G
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Kirshen, P.
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Kuriakose A
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Lange GM
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Neumann J
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Nicholls R
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Pandy K
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Price J
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Schlosser A
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Schneider R
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Sedjo R
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Strzepek, K.M.
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Sumaila R
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Ward P
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Wheeler D
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[Cost to developing countries of adapting to climate change: new methods and estimates]
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Cost to developing countries of adapting to climate change: new methods and estimates
Agreement is developing among agricultural scientists on the emerging inability of agriculture to meet growing global food demands. Changes in trends of weather conditions projected by global climate models will challenge physiological limits of crops and exacerbate the global food challenge by 2...
Takle ES
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Gustafson D
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Beachy, Roger N.
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
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Palazzo, Amanda
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[US food security and climate change: agricultural futures]
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US food security and climate change: agricultural futures
Given limited resources, adaptation strategies must target those populations most vulnerable to global change and equip those unable to adapt—generally the poorest—with the tools and incentives that will enable them to do so. ASARECA has recently carried out a study to enhance the understanding o...
Nzuma JM
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Waithaka, Michael
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Mbithi Mulwa R
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Kyotalimye, Miriam
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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[Strategies for adapting to climate change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa]
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Strategies for adapting to climate change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa