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Abstract This chapter focuses on the evaluation of adaptive capacities of
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Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa
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This book provides a comprehensive presentation of the realization of improved rainfed agriculture yield in semi-arid and dry land areas. The incentive of watershed programs is to increase the return on investment with over 20% for 65% of the projects that are currently underperforming. Besides t...
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