This paper investigates how climate change can affect agricultural production and proposes some adaptation measures that could be undertaken to mitigate the negative effects of climate change while enhancing the positive ones. The paper stresses the importance of planned adaptation measures and h...
Water, energy and labour scarcity, increasing cost of production, diminishing farm profits and uncertain weather events are major challenges faced by the farmers under intensive tillage based conventional rice–wheat (RW) production system of Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) in South Asia. To address th...
Jat, Kumar Raj
,
Sapkota, Tek Bahadur
,
Singh RG
,
Jat, Mangi Lal
,
Kumar, M.
,
Gupta RK
,
[Seven years of conservation agriculture in a rice–wheat rotation of Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia: Yield trends and economic profitability]
,
Seven years of conservation agriculture in a rice–wheat rotation of Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia: Yield trends and economic profitability
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) pose threats to conservation and public health. Here, we apply the definition of EIDs used in the medical and veterinary fields to botany and highlight a series of emerging plant diseases. We include EIDs of cultivated and wild plants, some of which are of sign...
We model future changes in land biogeochemistry and biogeography across East Africa. East Africa is one of few tropical regions where general circulation model (GCM) future climate projections exhibit a robust response of strong future warming and general annual-mean rainfall increases. Eighteen ...
Doherty, R.M.
,
Stich, S.
,
Smith, B.
,
Lewis, S.L.
,
Thornton, Philip K.
,
[A green future for East Africa: implications of future climate and atmospheric CO2 content on regional carbon cycling and biogeography]
,
A green future for East Africa: implications of future climate and atmospheric CO2 content on regional carbon cycling and biogeography
Guariguata, M.R.
,
Nasi, Robert
,
Kanninen, M.
,
[Forest degradation: it is not a matter of new definitions]
,
Forest degradation: it is not a matter of new definitions
Sonwa, D.J.
,
Bele, Y.
,
Somorin, O.A.
,
Jum, C.
,
Nkem, J.
,
[Adaptation for forests and communities in the Congo Basin: the CoFCCA experience]
,
Adaptation for forests and communities in the Congo Basin: the CoFCCA experience
Climate change presents additional challenges to a diverse country like Cameroon that shares the Congo Basin rainforest. Not only is the population vulnerable to the direct effects of climate change, forest-dependent communities are also vulnerable to changing environmental policy that may affect...
Brown, H.C.P.
,
Nkem, J.
,
Sonwa, D.J.
,
Bele, Y.
,
[Institutional adaptive capacity and climate change response in the Congo Basin forests of Cameroon]
,
Institutional adaptive capacity and climate change response in the Congo Basin forests of Cameroon
Tropical forests hold several goods and services used by forest-dependent people as safety nets to traverse difficult periods of resource supply. These same goods and services are constantly surrounded by emerging markets linking remote communities with major urban centers nationally and internat...
Nkem, J.
,
Kalame, F.B.
,
Idinoba, M.
,
Somorin, O.A.
,
Ndoye, O.
,
Awono, A.
,
[Shaping forest safety nets with markets: adaptation to climate change under changing roles of tropical forests in Congo Basin]
,
Shaping forest safety nets with markets: adaptation to climate change under changing roles of tropical forests in Congo Basin
The upcoming global mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries should include and prioritize tropical peatlands. Forested tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia are rapidly being converted into production systems by introducing perennial crop...
Murdiyarso, Daniel
,
Hergoualc’h, Kristell
,
Verchot, Louis V.
,
[Opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in tropical peatlands]
,
Opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in tropical peatlands