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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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  Innovation in smallholder farming in Africa: recent advances and recommendations: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Agricultural Innovation Systems in Africa (AISA)

  Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le Developpement, 2014

  This document represent the proceedings of the International Workshop on Agricultural Innovation Systems in Africa (AISA), which was held from 29 to 31 May 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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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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  Fact sheet. Project: P romotion and Intensification of Fruit Trees in Agricultural Farm Lands for Mitigation and Adaption to Climate Change

  Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2013

  The main objective of this strategic intervention is to reduce the impacts of climate change and land degradation on rural farm lands by intensifying the production of fruit trees. This will generate income and help farmers adapt to climate change.
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  Drought in Jalna: community-based adaptation to extreme climate events in Maharashtra

  Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2014

  This booklet is based on outcomes from a two-year Indo-Norwegian research and capacity development project titled, ‘Extreme Risks, Vulnerabilities and Community-Based Adaptation in India (EVA)’. The findings draw upon empirical data from rural communities in Jalna District in the dryland region of Marathwada of Maharashtra.
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  Adoption and extent of conservation agriculture practices among smallholder farmers in Malawi

  2014

  Understanding factors affecting farmers’ adoption of improved technologies is critical to success of conservation agriculture (CA) program implementation.
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  Water for wealth and food security: supporting farmer-driven investments in agricultural water management. Synthesis report of the AgWater Solutions Project.

  International Water Management Institute, 2012

  This report provides practical recommendations and tools for governments, the private sector, donors and organisations to effectively support farmer-led initiatives to improve water managment with a focus on Africa and India. It is a collaborative research report with inputs from IWMI, FAO, iDE, IFPRI and SEI. 
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  Water for Food, water for life: The comprehensive assessment of water in agriculture

  International Water Management Institute, 2007

  This summary of the International Water Management Institute's 2007 Earthscan book of the same name describes key water-food-environment trends that infuence our lives today and uses scenarios to explore the consequences of a range of potential investments.

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