Substantial evidence now exists suggesting that agricultural yields will have to increase significantly in order to meet food needs during the 21st century. One such way of increasing yields is to develop high yielding cultivars through crop improvement. This Working Paper summarises the results ...
Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Heinemann, Alexandre B.
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[Environmental characterisation to guide breeding decisions in a changing climate]
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Environmental characterisation to guide breeding decisions in a changing climate
Governments and conservation organizations have dedicated extensive resources to protect biodiversity, but their conservation strategies have largely been developed under an assumption of a static climate. These strategies may fail with changing climates, especially when combined with existing an...
Warren RF
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Price JT
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Vanderwal J
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Jarvis, Andy
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Shoo L
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Goswami S
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[Making scientific data available to adaptation practitioners: the Wallace Initiative and ClimaScope]
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Making scientific data available to adaptation practitioners: the Wallace Initiative and ClimaScope
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is being widely promoted as a solution for food insecurity
and climate change adaptation in food systems of sub-Saharan Africa, while simultaneously
reducing the rate of greenhouse gas emissions. Governments throughout Africa are writing
policies and programs to...
Lamanna, Christine
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Namoi, Nictor
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Kimaro, Anthony A.
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Mpanda, Mathew
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Egeru, Anthony
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Okia, Clement
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Mwongera, Caroline
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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Läderach, Peter
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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[Evidence-based opportunities for out-scaling climate-smart agriculture in East Africa]
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Evidence-based opportunities for out-scaling climate-smart agriculture in East Africa
The analogues approach, developed by CCAFS in R programming, is a novel way of supporting
climate and crop models with on-the-ground empirical testing. In essence, the analogues tool
connects sites with statistically similar (‘analogous’) climates, across space (i.e. between
locations) and/or ...
According to the most recent IPCC report, changes in climates over the last 30 years
have already reduced global agricultural production in the range 1-5 % per decade
globally, with particularly negative effects for tropical cereal crops such as maize and
rice (Porter et al., 2014). In addition, ...
Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[Climate change impacts on African crop production]
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Climate change impacts on African crop production
This Working Paper summarizes projected climate change impacts on livestock across
Africa, using a combination of literature review and some new results on the projected
impacts of climate change on the rangelands of Africa. Findings show that there are
many options that can help livestock keeper...
There has been significant scientific discord over what the best resolution for forecasting the impacts of climate change on agriculture and biodiversity is. Several researchers (particularly climatic researchers) state that original GCM (General Circulation Model) resolution should be kept in or...
Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Jarvis, Andy
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[Downscaling Global Circulation Model Outputs: The Delta Method Decision and Policy Analysis Working Paper No. 1]
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Downscaling Global Circulation Model Outputs: The Delta Method Decision and Policy Analysis Working Paper No. 1