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  Enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa: an exploration into alternative investment options

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012

  This discussion paper seeks to explore alternative investment options with the aim of enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa. Climate change, conflict, drought and increasing populations are leading many to pessimistic conclusions regarding the future viability of pastoral farming, arguing that these livelihoods should be sedentarised and diversified.
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  Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices? Evidence from east Africa

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012

  Smallholder farmers across east Africa have started to embrace climate-resilient farming approaches and technologies, according to this study by the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) research programme.
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  Institutional innovations in African smallholder carbon projects

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2012

  According to this report, climate funds for reducing greenhouse gas emissions can benefit small farmers and help achieve development objectives. In the detailed study of six African agricultural carbon projects, researchers found that communities are benefiting from a range of activities related to planting and managing trees on farms.
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  Achieving food security in the face of climate change: final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012

  This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change.
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  The future research agenda for ICTs, climate change and development

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2011

  A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stages, consider the ways in which people might engage with them in a range of possible future climate scenarios.
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  Rural Africa at the crossroads: livelihoods, practices and policies

  Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2000

  The last two decades of the 20th century have been a period of change for sub-Saharan African economies. Structural Adjustment Programmes have triggered a huge, unplanned income diversification response in African rural areas making rural populations become more occupationally flexible, spatially mobile and increasingly dependent on non-agricultural income-generating activities.
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  Impacts of climate change on livelihoods: what are the implications for social protection?

  Climate and Disaster Governance Programme, 2009

  This paper explores how rural agricultural livelihoods may be affected by changes in climate. Exploring Ethiopian case studies, the author uses a combined Transformative Social Protection and Household Economy Approach to determine how social protection can contribute to adaptation plans - specifically for the poor and most vulnerable - in the context of a changing climate.
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  Climate change and the threat to African food security

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009

  Sub-Saharan Africa is currently the most food-insecure region in the world. Climate change could aggravate the situation further unless adequate measures are put in place.
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  The impact of climate change and adaptation on food production in low-income countries: evidence from the Nile Basin, Ethiopia

  2008

  This paper presents an empirical analysis of the impact of climate change on food production in a typical low-income developing country. It provides an estimation of the determinants of adaptation to climate change and the possible implications that these strategies may have on farm productivity.

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