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  Impact of climate change on food security in Nigeria

  AFRREV STECH: An International Journal of Science and Technology, 2014

  This journal article is aimed at examining, through literature search, the impact of climate change on food security in Nigeria with a view to making suggestions on strategies to mitigate the impact of climate change on the environment generally and food security in particular.
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  What drives deforestation and what stops it? A meta-analysis of spatially explicit econometric studies

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2014

  This paper presents a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it. The researchers find that forests are more likely to be cleared where economic returns to agriculture and pasture are higher, either due to more favorable climatological and topographic conditions, or due to lower costs of clearing forest and transporting products to market.
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  Exploring strategic priorities for regional agricultural research and development investments in Southern Africa

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  The primary goal of this study was to identify a range of agricultural research priorities for achieving sector productivity and overall economic growth in southern Africa, at both the country and regional levels.
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  Crop adaptation to climate change in the semi-arid zone in Tanzania: the role of genetic resources and seed systems

  2014

  Background Rural livelihoods relying on agriculture are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Climate models project increasingly negative effects on maize and sorghum production in sub-Saharan Africa. We present a case study of the role of genetic resources and seed systems in adapting to climatic stress from the semi-arid agroecological zone in Tanzania. Results
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  How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to support food security?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  The purpose of the paper is to identify how climate change affects how people should approach the process of transforming agricultural systems (including crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) to support global food security and poverty reduction in a sustainable way.
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  Farmers’ Preferences for Climate-Smart Agriculture An Assessment in the Indo-Gangetic Plain

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2013

  This study was undertaken to assess farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for various climate-smart interventions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) was selected because it is highly vulnerable to climate change, which may adversely affect the sustainability of the rice-wheat production system and the food security of the region.
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  Global crop yield response to extreme heat stress under multiple climate change futures

  IOPscience, 2014

  This paper argues that extreme heat stress during the crop reproductive period can be critical for crop productivity. Projected changes in the frequency and severity of extreme climatic events are expected to negatively impact crop yields and global food production.
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  Farming system evolution and adaptive capacity: Insights for adaptation support

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2014

  Farming systems are an example of complex, social and ecological systems that are dynamic, and operate across multiple temporal and spatial scales – from individual to global levels.
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  Supporting the vulnerable: Increasing adaptive capacities of agropastoralists to climate change in West and southern Africa using a transdisciplinary research approach

  International Livestock Research Institute, 2013

  This publication seeks to identify promoted policy entry points to support the implementation of priority adaptation strategies, and identifies policy mechanisms as appropriate interventions to allow agropastoralists to buffer the effects of climate variability and change.
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  What climate change means for farmers in Africa: A triptych review middle panel: Introductional matters and consequences of global warming for African farmers

  African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2014

  This paper deals with the consequences of climate change for farmers in Africa, including increasing temperatures and changing rainfall, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide content and impacts on agricultural production.

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