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Climatic changes and increasing climatic variability are likely to aggravate the problem of future food security by exerting pressure on agriculture. However, there are lot of uncertainties about the assessment of impact, adaptation and mitigation of climate change in agriculture. It is largely b...


Pathak, HimanshuAggarwal, Pramod K.Singh, S.D.[Climate change impact, adaptation and mitigation in agriculture: methodology for assessment and applications]Climate change impact, adaptation and mitigation in agriculture: methodology for assessment and applications
Rikxoort, H. vanJassogne, Laurence T.P.Läderach, PeterAsten, Piet J.A. van[Integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation in East African coffee ecosystems]Integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation in East African coffee ecosystems

This book is the result of a consultative process, which brought together experts from Eastern Africa and beyond to synthesize and compile existing information on the role of trees in building resilience in the region’s drylands. The group consisted of a mixture of experts with backgrounds in res...


Leeuw, Jan deNjenga MWagner BIiyama, Miyuki[Treesilience: An assessment of the resilience provided by trees in the drylands of Eastern Africa]Treesilience: An assessment of the resilience provided by trees in the drylands of Eastern Africa

Naab, Jesse B.Bationo, B. AndréWafula, B.M.Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C.Zougmoré, Robert B.Ouattara MTabo, RamadjitaVlek, Paul L.G.[African Perspectives on Climate Change and Agriculture: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation Potential]African Perspectives on Climate Change and Agriculture: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation Potential

Climate can be viewed in a number of ways. As a constraint or setting, climate provides the broad boundary conditions within which a range of ecosystems services function. Climate may be considered a determinant in that it may be part of a causal chain of direct or indirect events leading to a pa...


Martínez, R.Hemming DMalone LBermudez, N.Cockfield GDiongue, A.Hansen, JamesHildebrand AIngram KJakeman GKadi Kadi, Hame A.McGregor GRMushtaq SRao PPulwarty RNdiaye, OusmaneSrinivasan, G.Seck EWhite NZougmoré, Robert B.[Improving climate risk management at local level techniques, case studies, good practices and guidelines for World Meteorological Organization members]Improving climate risk management at local level techniques, case studies, good practices and guidelines for World Meteorological Organization members

Many genera and species of nematodes attack almost all crops affecting their yield potential. Their distribution, diversity and potential damage depend on many factors including their centres of origin and subsequent spread, the agroecological conditions and the tolerance and resistance of the cr...


Nicol JMTurner, S.J.Coyne, D.L.Nijs, L. denHockland STahna Maafi Z[Current nematode threats to world agriculture]Current nematode threats to world agriculture

Including inland water bodies, Ghana covers 238,539 square kilometers and is located on the south central coast of West Africa. The country shares bor¬ders in the east with Togo, in the north with Burkina Faso, and in the west with Côte d’Ivoire. The topography of Ghana is mainly undulating, with...


Nutsukpo, D.K.Jalloh, AbdulaiZougmoré, Robert B.Nelson, Gerald C.Thomas, Timothy S.[Ghana]Ghana

Cassava (manioc, yuca, or mandioca; Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae) is an important cash crop and food crop of resource-limited farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The storage roots are utilised either fresh, as in the case of sweet cultivars low in cyanogenic g...


Okogbenin, EmmanuelSetter TLFerguson MMutegi RAlves, A.C.Ceballos, H.Fregene, Martin A.[Phenotyping cassava for adaptation to drought]Phenotyping cassava for adaptation to drought

Groundwater irrigation is believed to have the highest level of water control necessary for smallholder irrigation farmers to overcome household-level poverty and food insecurity. This study analyses the effects of the determinants of groundwater irrigation technology adoption with a data from 24...


Owusu VAsante, A.V.Pavelic, Paul[Assessing the factors influencing groundwater irrigation technology adoption in Ghana]Assessing the factors influencing groundwater irrigation technology adoption in Ghana

Climate change has many facets, including changes in long-term trends in temperature and rainfall regimes with increasing year-to-year variability and a greater prevalence of extreme events. The effects of these changing conditions on agriculture are already being seen, yet there are still consid...


Wassmann, ReinerNelson, Gerald C.Peng SBSumfleth KJagadish, Krishna S.V.Hosen YRosegrant, Mark W.[Rice and global climate change]Rice and global climate change

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