Climate change creates widespread risks for food production. As climate impacts are often locally specific, it is imperative that large-scale initiatives to support smallholder farmers consider local priorities and integrate lessons from successful autonomous adaptation efforts. This article expl...
Wright, H.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Laganda, G.
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Olupot, M.
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Jat, Mangi Lal
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[Farmers, food and climate change: ensuring communitybased adaptation is mainstreamed into agricultural programmes]
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Farmers, food and climate change: ensuring communitybased adaptation is mainstreamed into agricultural programmes
Highly publicised large-scale land deals for biofuels are raising prospects for macro-level benefits in recipient countries, but also carry the threat of appropriation of land and natural resources from the poor local people who depend on these assets. This paper examines the extent to which loca...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Cotula L
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[Over the heads of local people: Consultation, consent and recompense in large-scalel and deals for biofuels projects in Africa]
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Over the heads of local people: Consultation, consent and recompense in large-scalel and deals for biofuels projects in Africa
To achieve food security for many in low-income and middle-income countries for whom this is already a challenge, especially with the additional complications of climate change, will require early investment to support smallholder farming systems and the associated food systems that supply poor c...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Kinyangi, James
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Jarvis, Andy
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Hansen, James
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Challinor, Andrew J.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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[Climate change, agriculture and food security: A global partnership to link research and action for low-income agricultural producers and consumers]
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Climate change, agriculture and food security: A global partnership to link research and action for low-income agricultural producers and consumers
West et al. s recent paper (1) compared tradeoffs of carbon and crop production in temperate and tropical zones. We welcome the empirical evidence in support of agricultural intensification rather than extensification.
As countries around the world face urgent agricultural challenges, the concept of ‘climate-smart’ agriculture (CSA) has been put forward to achieve climate change adaptation, mitigation, and food security synergistically. A new report explores how three countries are using integrated policy appro...
Negra, Christine
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Barioni, Luís Gustavo
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Mamo, Tekalign
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Melville, Paul
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Tadesse, Melaku
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[Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand lead the way on climate-smart agriculture]
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Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand lead the way on climate-smart agriculture
With limited global resources, and in the face of environmental changes, meeting future food security challenges will first require a shift in thinking from just ‘producing food’ (and other sectoral interests) to ‘food systems.’ Solutions will need to be applied at local and regional levels, but ...
Ingram, John
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Dyball, Robert
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Howden, Mark
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Garnett, Tara
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Redlingshöfer, Barbara
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Guilbert, Stéphane
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Porter, John
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[Food Security, Food Systems, and Environmental Change]
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Food Security, Food Systems, and Environmental Change
Climate change creates widespread risks for food production. As climate impacts are often locally specific, it is imperative that large-scale initiatives to support smallholder farmers consider local priorities and integrate lessons from successful autonomous adaptation efforts. This article expl...
Wright, H
,
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
,
Laganda, G
,
Olupot, M
,
Ampaire, Edidah L.
,
Jat, Mangi Lal
,
[Farmers, food and climate change: ensuring community-based adaptation is mainstreamed into agricultural programmes]
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Farmers, food and climate change: ensuring community-based adaptation is mainstreamed into agricultural programmes
Food security is high on the global policy agenda. Demand for food is increasing as populations grow and gain wealth to purchase more varied and resource-intensive diets. There is increased competition for land, water, energy, and other inputs into food production. Climate change poses challenges...
Garnett, Tara
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Appleby, M.C.
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Balmford, A.
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Bateman, I.J.
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Benton, T.G.
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Bloomer, P.
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Burlingame, B.
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Dawkins, M.
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Dolan, L.
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Fraser, D.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Hoffmann, I.
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Smith, Pete
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Toulmin, C.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Godfray, H. Charles J.
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[Sustainable intensification in agriculture: premises and policies]
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Sustainable intensification in agriculture: premises and policies
Incremental adaptation may be inadequate to deal with rapid shifts and tipping points for food production under climate change. The concepts of transformative and transformational adaptation have emerged in recent years to address the need for major, non-marginal transitions in sectors, such as a...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Dinesh, Dhanush
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Howden, S. Mark
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Cramer, Laura
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[Transformation in Practice: A Review of Empirical Cases of Transformational Adaptation in Agriculture Under Climate Change]
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Transformation in Practice: A Review of Empirical Cases of Transformational Adaptation in Agriculture Under Climate Change
Food systems contribute 19% 29% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, releasing 9,800 16,900 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2008. Agricultural production, including indirect emissions associated with land-cover change, contributes 80% 86% of total food syste...