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Understanding past and future impacts of climate change in agriculture: implications for adaptation planning
Adapting to Climate Change in China, 2012Climate change poses a serious risk to food security and agriculture in China. Agriculture is of critical importance to China, because 54 per cent of the country’s population lives in rural areas. This policy brief outlines the key research highlights to date on the impacts of climate change on agriculture.DocumentFarmers' adaptation initiatives to the impact of climate change on agriculture in northern Nigeria
African Journals Online - AJOL, 2012This study examines the innovative adaptive measures used by farmers in northern Nigeria to respond to the effects of climate change. Quantitative and qualitative approaches (rapid rural appraisal, focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews) were used to gather information from 500 farmers.DocumentAnalysis of climate change impacts on coffee, cocoa and basic grains value chains in northern Honduras
Instituto de Estudios del Hambre (Institute of Hunger Studies), 2013This study examines, applying future climate local scenarios, climate change impacts in northern Honduras and makes recommendations to strengthen the resilience of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) ‘Northern Horizons’ project beneficiaries in the coffee, cocoa, maize and bean value chains.DocumentClimate adaptation as mitigation: the case of agricultural investments
IOPscience, 2013This paper argues that successful adaptation of agriculture to ongoing climate changes would help to maintain productivity growth and reduce pressure to bring new lands into agriculture. It explores the potential co-benefits of adaptation in terms of the avoided emissions from land use change.DocumentRural households in a changing climate
World Bank, 2013This World Bank policy research working paper investigates household-level strategies for adapting to climate change in rural settings, looking particularly at the adaptive capacity of poor rural households – a subject the authors claim has received little attention due to its broad and complex nature.DocumentA critical analysis of climate change factors and its projected future values in Delta state, Nigeria
Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2013This study analyses climate change factors (temperature and rainfall) and their projected future values in the Delta state, Nigeria. A variety of crops such as maize, yam and cassava produced in Delta state depend on rainfall for their optimum performance. Therefore, decreasing and/or irregular rainfall patterns threaten food security in the state.DocumentAdaptive capacities of farmers to climate change adaptation strategies and their effects on rice production in the northern region of Ghana
Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2012This study examines the adaptive capacities of farmers to climate change adaptation strategies and their effects on rice production in the northern region of Ghana. The adaptive capacities of rice farmers were estimated quantitatively and categorised into high, moderate and low adaptive capacities.OrganisationClimate Focus
Climate Focus is an advisory company committed to the development of policies and projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.OrganisationAsian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development (AJARD)
The Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development (AJARD) is an open access journal focusing on agriculture and rural development.OrganisationRussian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences (RJOAS)
Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences (RJOAS) is an interdisciplinary open access journal of agriculture and socio-economic studies.Pages