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  Climate Change, growth, and Poverty in Ethiopia

  2013

  Climate change is now a global phenomenon with growth, poverty, food security, and stability implications. Because of significant dependence on the agricultural sector for production, employment, and export revenues, Ethiopia is seriously threatened by climate change, which contributes to frequent drought, flooding, and rising average temperatures.
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  Turn down the heat: climate extremes, regional impacts, and the case for resilience

  World Bank, 2013

  Focusing on the risk of climate change on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia, and South Asia, this World Bank report provides a scientific analysis of the likely impacts on agriculture, water resources and coastal vulnerability that will be felt under various warming scenarios up to an increase of 4°C.
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  The cost of adapting to climate change in Ethiopia: sector-wise and macro-economic estimates

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2013

  This paper uses spatially - explicit analyses of climate change effects on selected key sectors of Ethiopia’s economy to analyse both sector-wise and economy-wide estimates of impacts and adaptation costs.
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  Farmers’ perceptions and adaptations to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: a synthesis of empirical studies and implications for public policy in African agriculture

  Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013

  Climate change has the potential of undermining sustainable development efforts in Africa, if steps are not taken to respond to its adverse consequences. This study reviews existing and available literature on farmers’ perceptions and adaptation strategies to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Forests and trees for social adaptation to climate variability and change

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2012

  Ecosystems provide crucial services to help people adapt to climate change. In conducting a review of the scientific literature, this paper shows how ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation can reduce social vulnerability to climate hazards, and highlights knowledge gaps and trade-offs that require more research.
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  Farmers' perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies in northern Nigeria: an empirical assessment

  African Technology Policy Studies Network, 2011

  This study examines farmer's perception of the causes, constraints and strategies towards effective climate change adaptation in northern Nigeria. Data were collected from 500 respondents using both qualitative and quantitative approaches through a multistage random sampling technique.
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  Investigating climate information services through a gendered lens

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2013

  This working paper explores the gender dimensions of access to climate change related information. The effective utilisation of information channels is a crucial aspect of adaptation development, yet the people most at risk are often those on the periphery of information dissemination. This is particularly true for women farmers, who are overwhelmingly excluded from many information channels.
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  Tried and tested: learning from farmers on adaptation to climate change

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  Small-scale farmers and pastoralists knowledge and experience of coping with climatic extremes and uncertainty has been largely overlooked in climate change adaptation planning efforts.
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  Training guide: gender and climate change research in agriculture and food security for development

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012

  It has been estimated that over 100 million people could be lifted out of poverty, if women were granted equal access to and control of resources. However, climate change and gender have yet to be implemented into agricultural development in an effective way.
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  Flexibility of scope, type and temporality in Mustang, Nepal. Opportunities for adaptation in a farming system facing climatic and market uncertainty

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013

  Climate change is projected to increase the seasonality in river flows in the great river systems of the Himalaya and impose challenges to regional food production. Since climate change increases the uncertainty in local weather patterns, people’s ability to maintain local agricultural production will depend on the adaptability of local farming systems.

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