There is increasing concern over the consequences of global warming for the food security and livelihoods of the world's 36 million fisherfolk and the nearly 1.5 billion consumers who rely on fish for more than 20% of their dietary animal protein. With mounting evidence of the impacts of climate ...
Badjeck MC
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Allison, Edward H.
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Halls AS
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Dulvy NK
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[Impacts of climate variability and change on fishery-based livelihoods]
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Impacts of climate variability and change on fishery-based livelihoods
Leeuw, P.N. de
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[The primary and secondary productivity of the savannas in the middle belt of Nigeria]
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The primary and secondary productivity of the savannas in the middle belt of Nigeria
The impacts of climate change on agriculture may add significantly to the development challenges of ensuring food security and reducing poverty. We show the possible impacts on maize production in Africa and Latin America to 2055, using high-resolution methods to generate characteristic daily wea...
Jones, Peter G.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[The potential impacts of climate change on maize production in Africa and Latin America in 2055]
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The potential impacts of climate change on maize production in Africa and Latin America in 2055
Reports the results of a 2-year study of indigenous sheep and goats in a traditional management system in Burkina Faso. Defines the production parameters under current levels of management including age at first lambing, age at first kidding, litter sizes, birth interval, weight at specific age, ...
Wilson, R.T.
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[Productivity of traditionally managed small ruminants in an agro-pastoral system in northern Burkina Faso]
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Productivity of traditionally managed small ruminants in an agro-pastoral system in northern Burkina Faso
Mounting evidence that climate change will impact food security demonstrates the need to adapt food systems to future conditions. New work sheds light on the measures that will be needed to do so, and what the gains of implementing them might be.
Localized changes in the productivity of marine and inland waters induced by climate change will pose new challenges to the fishery and the aquaculture sectors in West Africa. However, climate change does not occur in isolation of other drivers of change: processes of environmental, economic and ...
Badjeck MC
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Diop, N.
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[The future is now: how scenarios can help Senegalese and Mauritanian fisheries adapt to climate change]
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The future is now: how scenarios can help Senegalese and Mauritanian fisheries adapt to climate change
NO fluxes from soils are a significant source for tropospheric NOx, though global and regional estimates of the soil source strength are constrained by the paucity of measurements. In a continuous 18 month effort (2012–2014) soil NO fluxes from an intensively managed arable site in the black soil...
Medinets, S.
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Gasche, R.
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Skiba, U.
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Medinets, V.
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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[The impact of management and climate on soil nitric oxide fluxes from arable land in the Southern Ukraine]
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The impact of management and climate on soil nitric oxide fluxes from arable land in the Southern Ukraine
Crop production in Southeast Asia is subject to considerable climate variability caused by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation phenomenon. El Niño causes comparatively dry conditions leading to substantial declines in crop yields, with severe consequences for the welfare of local farm households. Us...
Keil, A.
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Teufel, Nils
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Gunawan, D.
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Leemhuis, C.
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[Vulnerability of smallholder farmers to ENSO-related drought in Indonesia]
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Vulnerability of smallholder farmers to ENSO-related drought in Indonesia
This paper analyses water availability and use within and between the Challenge Program on Water and Food basins. It describes the main features of water demand and supply in the basins and indicates where there are deficits and opportunities for development of water resources. A typology of basi...
Mulligan, M.
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Saenz Cruz, L.L.
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Pena-Arancibia, J
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Pandey, B.
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Mahe, G
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Fisher, M.
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[Water availability and use across the challenge program]
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Water availability and use across the challenge program
Conservation agriculture (CA) based on hand-hoe prepared planting basins is being widely promoted in southern Africa, targeting resource-constrained farmers with limited access to draft power. This study was conducted across 15 districts covering four agro-ecological zones in Zimbabwe where paire...
Nyamangara, Justice
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Masvaya EN
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Tirivavi R
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Nyengerai K
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[Effect of hand-hoe based conservation agriculture on soil fertility and maize yield in selected smallholder areas in Zimbabwe]
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Effect of hand-hoe based conservation agriculture on soil fertility and maize yield in selected smallholder areas in Zimbabwe