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
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
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
The impacts of a warming world are affecting food production in every corner of the globe. From shifting rainfall patterns and growing seasons, to more frequent and extreme droughts and floods, to increasingly severe pest and disease outbreaks among crops and livestock, farming as we know it is u...
Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Birch, James
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Meza, Laura
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Sunga, Ishmael
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Bong, Bui Ba
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Rabbinge, Rudy
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Reddy, Matthew
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Dinesh, Dhanush
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Korner, Jana
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Millan, Alberto
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Hansen, James
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Huyer, Sophia
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture]
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Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture
Decision makers in developing countries need evidence of the impacts climate change is having and will continue to have on agriculture and food systems as well as knowledge on how to design better policies to deal with such impacts. Research for development scientists are generating this evidence...
Cramer, Laura
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Dinesh, Dhanush
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Jat, Mangi Lal
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Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
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Laderach, Peter
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Ouédraogo, Mathieu
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Partey, Samuel
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Totin, Edmond
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Vasileiou, Ioannis
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Veeger, Marieke
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[Lessons on bridging the science-policy divide for climate change action in developing countries]
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Lessons on bridging the science-policy divide for climate change action in developing countries
Climate change is currently acknowledged as one of the pressing global threats to the
environment and humanity. This threat has moved the global community to take action on
adaptation and mitigation efforts to cushion its devastating effects. Cognizance has been taken
of the disproportionate impa...
Aura, Ruth
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Nyasimi, Mary
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Cramer, Laura
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[Gender review of climate change legislative and policy frameworks and strategies in East Africa]
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Gender review of climate change legislative and policy frameworks and strategies in East Africa
Climate change will have severe impacts in many parts of the tropics and subtropics. Despite the importance of livestock to poor people and the magnitude of the changes that are likely to befall livestock systems, the intersection of climate change and livestock is a relatively neglected research...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Steeg, Jeannette van de
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Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
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Herrero, Mario T.
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[The livestock-climate-poverty nexus: A discussion paper on ILRI research in relation to climate change]
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The livestock-climate-poverty nexus: A discussion paper on ILRI research in relation to climate change
Hills, T.
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Pramova, E.
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Noble, A.D.
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Weight, Elizabeth
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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McCartney, Matthew P.
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[A monitoring instrument for resilience]
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A monitoring instrument for resilience
This document describes a monitoring instrument for efficiently tracking changes in resilience
in agricultural initiatives.
Operationalizing the concept of resilience (i.e. the ability to withstand change, stresses and shocks)
poses significant challenges for project managers, particularly when r...
Hills T
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Pramova E
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Noble, A.D.
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Weight, Elizabeth
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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McCartney, Matthew P.
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[A Monitoring Instrument for Resilience]
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A Monitoring Instrument for Resilience
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