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    The adaptation advantage: The economic benefits of preparing small-scale farmers for climate change

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2013
    This paper features five case studies of rural development projects which represent a variety of situations in which environmental or climate-related problems pose a challenge to human development. The projects are based in Kenya, Turkey, Viet Nam, Bangladesh and Bolivia.
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    Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Garissa County, Kenya

    CARE International, 2013
    In Garissa County, the impacts of climate change are already being felt by communities, who are seeking ways to adapt to the changes and to build resilient livelihoods. These changes are combined with other environmental, economic and political factors to create a situation of increasing vulnerability for poor and marginalized households.
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    Climate change and adaptation: the case of Nigerian agriculture

    Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, 2013
    The paper offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80 per cent of agricultural value added. Uncertainty on future climate is captured, using, as input, yield changes computed by a crop model, covering the whole range of variability produced by an envelope of one RCM and tem GCM runs.
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    Malawi Climate Change Vulnerability Assesment

    US Agency for International Development, 2013
    The Malawi Vulnerability Assessment (Malawi VA) was an initiative of the USAID African and Latin American Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC). Its goal was to understand current and projected climate change impacts in central and southern Malawi, and to explore to what extent national and district government entities, rural communities, and households are equipped to adapt to those impacts.
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    Climate change and livestock production: A review with emphasis on Africa

    South African Journal of Animal Science, 2013
    Historic climate changes have already played a role in the demise or development of agricultural production systems. This review article gives insight into the possible effects of climate change on their production parameters. The results and predictions of global studies and simulations are summarized with special emphasis, where possible, on the southern African scenario.
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    Determinants of choice of crop variety as climate change adaptation option in arid regions of Zimbabwe

    Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2013
    This study used the multinomial logit model to analyse the determinants of farmers’ choice of crop variety in the face of climate change. The estimation of the multinomial logit was done by using the sorghum variety options as dependent variable and where farmers grow other crop different from sorghum as the reference state.
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    Agriculture and adaptation in Bangladesh: Current and projected impacts of climate change

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2013
    The goal of this research was to examine the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh, and develop recommendations to policymakers to help farmers adapt to the changes. A variety of research methods were used.
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    Transforming Gender Relations in Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013
    As part of a process to better understand the role of gender in agriculture initiated by the Swedish International Development Agency in 2009, this book presents and analyses a number of case studies from Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and Zambia.
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    Using climate information to support adaptation planning and policy-making: A practical case study in Bagamoyo District, coastal Tanzania

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013
    This case study is designed to provide a practical example of how to use climate information to support adaptation planning and policy-making. The paper focuses on the Bagamoyo district in coastal Tanzania. Local livelihoods are mostly based on natural resources, including small-scale agriculture, seaweed farming, traditional fishing and small-scale eco-tourism.
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    Climate Change and Adaptive Capacity of Women to Rural Water Supply in Ekiti State Nigeria

    SAVAP International, 2013
    This study used focused group discussions and interviews of 400 respondents randomly selected from the two senatorial districts of Ekiti State to assess the adaptive capacity of women folk to rural water accessibility as affected by climate change from January 2008 to January 2010.

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