This brief focuses on the challenges in making climate-smart agricultural production work for the poor, who will be the most vulnerable to climate impacts. It offers recommendations to overcome constraints, as even small management changes can have significant income and livelihood benefits.
Neufeldt, Henry
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Thorlakson, T.
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Gassner, Anja
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Norton-Griffiths, M.
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Place, Frank
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Langford K
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[Making climate-smart agriculture work for the poor]
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Making climate-smart agriculture work for the poor
This section introduces some basic concepts surrounding the climate system, climate change and climate variability. We will provide some insights into the challenges of climate modelling and what the inherent uncertainty really means for us, before exploring the way adaptation has so far been dis...
Neufeldt, Henry
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Sand, Isabel van de
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Dietz, Johannes
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Minh HH
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Yatich, T.
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Lasco, Rodel
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Noordwijk, Meine van
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[Climate change, climate variability and adaptation options]
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Climate change, climate variability and adaptation options
New agricultural development pathways are required to meet climate change adaptation and mitigation needs in the food systems of low-income countries. A research and policy agenda is provided to indicate where innovation and new knowledge are needed. Adaptation requires identifying suitable crop ...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Wassmann, Reiner
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Rosswall, T.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Hellin, J.
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Jarvis, Andy
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Challinor, Andrew J.
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Snook, L.K.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Kinyangi, James
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[Setting the agenda: Climate change adaptation and mitigation for food systems in the developing world]
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Setting the agenda: Climate change adaptation and mitigation for food systems in the developing world
In this section we provide a more in-depth look at the role trees play in the provision of goods and
services in multifunctional landscapes. Tree growth is, however, vulnerable to climate variability,
depending on the physiological properties of the tree and characteristics of the site. A further...
Jamnadass, Ramni H.
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Gebrekirstos, Aster
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Muthuri C
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Dawson, I.
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Kindt, Roeland
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Nyberg Y
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Dietz, Johannes
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Bayala, Jules
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Kuyah S
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Ong CK
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Sotelo Montes, Carmen
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Weber, John C.
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Hairiah K
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Noordwijk, Meine van
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[Trees as providers of environmental services in multifunctional landscapes are vulnerable to climate change]
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Trees as providers of environmental services in multifunctional landscapes are vulnerable to climate change
This brief addresses the major challenges and opportunities to financing climate change mitigation and adaptation pathways for smallholder farmers in developing nations. It underlines the need for an innovative and integrated approach to climate finance that can connect rural farmers to public an...
Foster K
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Franks P
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Diro, R.
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Munden, L
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Anand M
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Climate Finance for Agriculture and Livelihoods]
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Climate Finance for Agriculture and Livelihoods
This paper aims to understand the linkages between adaptive capacity and social protection within agroforestry contexts through a case study approach. It examines how elements of adaptive capacity which include assets, institutions, knowledge, innovation systems and governance, can support or be ...
Chaudhury, M.
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Ajayi, Oluyede C.
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Hellin, J.
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Neufeldt, Henry
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[Climate change adaptation and social protection in agroforestry systems: enhancing adaptive capacity and minimizing risk of drought in Zambia and Honduras]
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Climate change adaptation and social protection in agroforestry systems: enhancing adaptive capacity and minimizing risk of drought in Zambia and Honduras
Providing a detailed picture of the values of trees for local people in the tropics is a difficult undertaking. Not only does this represent the difficulty in accounting for values outside formal markets, but it also reflects the multiplicity of the species involved and the many different ways in...
Neufeldt, Henry
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Dawson, Ian K.
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Luedeling, Eike
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Ajayi, Oluyede C.
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Beedy, Tracy
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Gebrekirstos, Aster
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Jamnadass, Ramni H.
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König, K.
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Sileshi, Gudeta W.
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Simelton, Elisabeth
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Sotelo Montes, Carmen
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Weber, John C.
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[Climate change vulnerability of agroforestry]
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Climate change vulnerability of agroforestry
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) provide a market-based instrument to motivate changes in land use that degrade ecosystem services. This investigation sought to better understand how effective PES schemes are in meeting the goals of safeguarding ecosystem services, while also benefitting loc...
Kissinger, Gabrielle
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Patterson, Caitlin
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Neufeldt, Henry
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[Payments for ecosystem services schemes: project-level insights on benefits for ecosystems and the rural poor]
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Payments for ecosystem services schemes: project-level insights on benefits for ecosystems and the rural poor
This book focuses on the relationship between climate-change adaptation, rural development and the roles of trees and agroforestry. Rewards' schemes for environmental services (RES) in multifunctional landscapes, which provide incentives for maintaining or restoring multifunctionality, will contr...
Noordwijk, Meine van
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Hoang, Minh Ha
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Öborn, Ingrid
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Yatich, T.
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[How trees and people can co- adapt to climate change: reducing vulnerability through multifunctional agroforestry landscapes]
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How trees and people can co- adapt to climate change: reducing vulnerability through multifunctional agroforestry landscapes
Woodfuel plays a critical role in energy provision in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and is predicted to remain dominant within the energy portfolio of the population in the coming decades. Although current inefficient technologies of production and consumption are associated with negative socio-econo...
Iiyama, Miyuki
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Dobie, P.
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Njenga M
,
Ndegwa G
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Jamnadass, Ramni H.
,
[The potential of agroforestry in the provision of sustainable woodfuel in sub-Saharan Africa]
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The potential of agroforestry in the provision of sustainable woodfuel in sub-Saharan Africa