Climate change is projected to have serious impacts on the agriculture of southern Africa, affecting
food availability, creating local production shortfalls and resulting in rising commodity prices. This
report highlights the risks to agriculture and food systems that may occur in two counties of...
Vergage, Fabian
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Cramer, Laura
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Climate risk assessment and agricultural value chain prioritisation for Malawi and Zambia]
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Climate risk assessment and agricultural value chain prioritisation for Malawi and Zambia
Climate-smart interventions in agriculture have varying costs and environmental and economic impacts. Their implementation requires appropriate investment decisions by policy makers that are relevant for current as well as future scenarios of agro-ecology, climate and economic development. Decisi...
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Dunnett, Alex
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Shirsath, Paresh B.
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Joshi, Pramod K.
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Pal, Barun D
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Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
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Ghosh, Joydeep
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[Multi-objective land use allocation modelling for prioritizing climate-smart agricultural interventions]
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Multi-objective land use allocation modelling for prioritizing climate-smart agricultural interventions
Thornton, Philip K.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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[The role of mixed crop-livestock farming systems in ensuring food security]
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The role of mixed crop-livestock farming systems in ensuring food security
This chapter tackles fundamental issues of research methodology and philosophy of science regarding adaptation policy. Importantly, the authorsdistinguish between research methods and the epistemological and ontological assumptions that underwrite research methodology. First, in terms of methods,...
Purdon, Mark
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[Research methodology for adaptation policy analysis: embracing the eclectic messy centre]
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Research methodology for adaptation policy analysis: embracing the eclectic messy centre
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is widely promoted as an approach for reorienting agricultural development under the realities of climate change. Prioritising research-for-development activities is crucial, given the need to utilise scarce resources as effectively as possible. However, no framewo...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Whitbread, Anthony M.
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Baedeker, Tobias
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Cairns, Jill E.
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Claessens, Lieven
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Baethgen, Walter E.
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Bunn, Christian
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Friedmann, Michael
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Giller, Ken E.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Howden, Mark
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Kilcline, Kevin
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Nangia, Vinay
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Kumar, Shalander
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West, Paul C.
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Keating, Brian
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[A framework for priority-setting in climate smart agriculture research]
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A framework for priority-setting in climate smart agriculture research
Many assessments of climate change impacts on global crop yields project declines as early as the 2020s. Losses are projected to increase with time, up to 50% by the 2080s. We carry out a systematic global review and compare published projections of climate change impacts from 34 studies and ∼450...
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Vyas, Shalika
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Kropff, Martin
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[Importance of considering technology growth in impact assessments of climate change on agriculture]
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Importance of considering technology growth in impact assessments of climate change on agriculture
This report presents 4 scenarios for the future of food security, agriculture, livelihoods and environments in East Africa. These scenarios were developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in collaboration with a wide range of regional stakeholders. Th...
Vervoort, Joost M.
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Palazzo, Amanda
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Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Förch, Wiebke
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Havlík, Petr
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Jost, Christine
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Rowlands, H.
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[The future of food security, environments and livelihoods in Eastern Africa: four socio-economic scenarios]
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The future of food security, environments and livelihoods in Eastern Africa: four socio-economic scenarios
This working paper examines the development of regional socioeconomic scenarios for West Africa’s development, agriculture, food security and climate impacts. We present four globally consistent regional scenarios framed and outlined by regional experts who crafted narratives and determined key d...
Palazzo, Amanda
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Rutting, Lucas
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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Havlík, Petr
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Jalloh, Abdulai
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Aubee, Ernst
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Helfgott, Ariella E.S.
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Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
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Islam, Shahnila
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Segda, Zénabou
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Moussa, Abdoulaye S.
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Bayala, Jules
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Kadi Kadi, Hame A.
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Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Valin, Hugo
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[The future of food security, environments and livelihoods in Western Africa: Four socio-economic scenarios]
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The future of food security, environments and livelihoods in Western Africa: Four socio-economic scenarios
The contemporary concern about anthropogenic release of greenhouse gas (GHG) into the
environment and the contribution of livestock to this phenomenon have sparked animal
scientists’ interest in predicting methane (CH4) emissions by ruminants. Focusing on milk
production, we address six basic nut...
Tedeschi, L.O.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[An Overview of Dairy Cattle Models for Predicting Milk Production: Their Evolution, Evaluation, and Application for the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) for Livestock.]
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An Overview of Dairy Cattle Models for Predicting Milk Production: Their Evolution, Evaluation, and Application for the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) for Livestock.
En las últimas décadas la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en América Latina y el Caribe se ha fortalecido, pasando de un 14.7% de población afectada por el hambre en 1990 a un 5.5% en 2014 (FAOSTAT, 2016), cumpliendo con la meta del hambre de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio. Sin embar...
In recent decades, food and nutrition security in Latin America and the Caribbean has strengthened, decreasing the number of the population affected by hunger from 14.7% in 1990 to 5.5% in 2014 (FAOSTAT, 2016), meeting the hunger goal of the Millennium Development Goals. However, climate change, ...
Cramer, Laura
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Huyer, Sophia
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Lavado, Angela
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Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Nyasimi, Mary
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Thomas, Timothy S.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Etten, Jacob van
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Wijk, Mark T. van
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[Métodos propuestos para evaluar el impacto potencial del cambio climático sobre la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en Centroamérica y la República Dominicana]
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Métodos propuestos para evaluar el impacto potencial del cambio climático sobre la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en Centroamérica y la República Dominicana