Key note paper presented at 2nd ANAFE International Symposium: ‘Mainstreaming climate change into agricultural education: tools, experiences and challenges’, Malawi, 2008. The paper informs that adaptation of production systems to climate change requires human capacity in agricultural biodiversit...
Rudebjer, P.G.
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Baidu-Forson, J.J.
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Schagen, B. van
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Jarvis, A.
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Staver, C.
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Hodgkins, T.
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[Agrobiodiversity and climate change: what do students need to know?]
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Agrobiodiversity and climate change: what do students need to know?
With just two years left to achieve the MDGs, and as work begins to shape a new framework for global development post- 2015, the Government of Ireland, as part of Ireland’s EU Presidency, and the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) and th...
Discusses biological options available for improvement in the productivity of pastoral systems, particularly referring to problems arising from aridity and under-nutrition, and problems of particular systems such as mortality of young stock, bush encroachment, epidemic diseases and management sys...
Cardoso Arango, Juan Andrés
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Jiménez Serna, Juan de la Cruz
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Odokonyero, Kennedy
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Rao, Idupulapati M.
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[Pastos de brachiaria para combatir el cambio climático: avances en la identificación de atributos asociados]
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Pastos de brachiaria para combatir el cambio climático: avances en la identificación de atributos asociados
This study combines climate change (CC), hydrological and water resource evaluation models to assess the impact of one downscaled mid-range CC scenario (A1B) on the performance of existing and planned irrigation and hydropower schemes in the Volta basin. The models were run (1983-2100) to simulat...
Forkuor, Gerald
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McCartney, Matthew P.
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Amisigo, B.
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[Evaluating the implications of future water resources development under current and projected future climate in the Volta Basin]
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Evaluating the implications of future water resources development under current and projected future climate in the Volta Basin
Recent decades have witnessed an ever-increasing range and volume of digital data. All elements of the pillars of science--whether observation, experiment, or theory and modeling--are being transformed by the continuous cycle of generation, dissemination, and use of factual information. This is e...
Sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) that lead to an increase in productivity are central to the acceleration of economic growth; this will alleviate poverty and help to overcome the recurrent food shortages that affect millions of households in Africa. However, the adoption rates of SAPs re...
Hailemariam T
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Kassie, Menale
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Shiferaw, Bekele
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[On the joint estimation of multiple adoption decisions: the case of sustainable agricultural technologies and practices in Ethiopia]
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On the joint estimation of multiple adoption decisions: the case of sustainable agricultural technologies and practices in Ethiopia
In regions where climate change is expected to be extensive and rapid, many tree species are predicted to experience severe stress in their native ranges. Survival will then depend on the capacity to undertake at least one of the following: (1) quickly adapt genetically to new conditions at exist...
Loo J
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Fady, B.
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Dawson, I.
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Vinceti, B.
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Baldinelli, G.
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[Climate change and forest genetic resources - state of knowledge, risks, and opportunities]
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Climate change and forest genetic resources - state of knowledge, risks, and opportunities
The paper contributes to an understanding of the determinants of food security with a bias on the link between gender of household head and food security using detailed farm household and plot level survey data from 30 divisions in rural Kenya. Both parametric and non-parametric econometric techn...
Kassie, Menale
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Ndiritu SW
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Shiferaw, Bekele
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[Determinants of Food Security in Kenya, a Gender Perspective]
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Determinants of Food Security in Kenya, a Gender Perspective
Providing food and water security for a population expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050 while conserving natural resources requires achieving high yields on every hectare of currently used arable land suitable for intensification. This is especially relevant for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where, u...
Claessens, Lieven
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Cassman, Kenneth G.
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Wart, Justin van
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Grassini, Patricio
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Ittersum, Martin K. van
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Bussel, Lenny G. J. van
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Boogaard, H.
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Stoorvogel, J.J.
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Wolf, Joost
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Yang, Haishun
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[Soil data for yield gap assessment and soil suitability index for sustainable intensification]
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Soil data for yield gap assessment and soil suitability index for sustainable intensification