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  Thirsty, hungry and no power? : African resources in a global world

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2014

  Water, food and energy are fundamental to African development. However, several crucial issues need to be addressed. Are African resources used to meet African needs or are they being exploited to satisfy the needs of other actors facing food and energy insecurity?
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  Impact of fertilizer use on weed management in conservation agriculture - a review

  2014

  Intensive farming has been adopted to produce large amounts of food grains and cash crops but environment is being deteriorated at alarming rate also. Increased use of fertilizers, pesticides, chemical growth regulators, machinery and poor management practices are accelerating environmental pollution, soil degradation, global warming, climatic change and food deterioration.
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  Nexus Nirvana or Nexus Nullity? A dynamic approach to security and sustainability in the water-energy-food nexus

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2014

  STEPS Centre working paper proposing a dynamic approach to security and sustainability in the water-energy-food nexus.
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  Assessing Mali’s Direction Nationale De La Météorologie Agrometeorological Advisory Program: preliminary report on the climate science and farmer use of advisories

  USA Agency for International Development, 2014

  In June 2011, USAID organized a West African Adaptation Workshop under the Adaptation Partnership in Dakar, Senegal.
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  Women’s vulnerability to climatic and non-climatic change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains

  International Water Management Institute, 2014

  Previous findings from IWMI’s research conducted in Madhubani, Bihar, India, and in Dhanusha and Morang of the Nepal Terai (Madhesh) were taken to substantiate previous literature on the region by showing how men and women are differentially affected by climate change.
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  Are trees buffering ecosystems and livelihoods in agricultural landscapes of the Lower Mekong Basin? Consequences for climate-change adaptation

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2014

  This working paper analyses 1) the impacts of continuing land-use and climate changes in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) region; and 2) the potential role of increased use of trees in agricultural landscapes to reduce the negative impact of land-use changes.
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  Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment – a survey instrument for the Hindu Kush Himalayas

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2014

  This publication describes the development and application of ICIMOD’s Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment (PVA), a household survey tool designed to capture key elements of poverty, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity in mountain contexts for the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.
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  The Chinyanja Triangle in the Zambezi River Basin, Southern Africa: status of, and prospects for, agriculture, natural resources management and rural development

  International Water Management Institute, 2014

  This paper, which focuses on the Chinyanja Triangle (CT), an area inside the Zambezi River Basin, characterises three distinct farming subsystems across rainfall gradients, namely maize-beans-fish, sorghum-millet-livestock and the livestock-dominated subsystem.
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  Agroforestry, livestock, fodder production and climate change adaptation and mitigation in East Africa: issues and options

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2014

  This working paper argues that agroforestry and livestock-keeping both have the potential to promote anthropogenic climate change resilience and support each other in this context.
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  Cattle and climate in Africa: how climate variability has influenced national cattle holdings from 1961–2008

  PubMed Central, 2013

  The role of cattle in developing countries is as a source of high-quality food, as draft animals, and as a source of manure and fuel. Cattle represent important contribution to household incomes, and in drought prone areas they can act as an insurance against weather risk.

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