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  The case for evergreen agriculture in Africa: enhancing food security with climate change adaptation and mitigation in Zambia

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2011

  Climate change vulnerability and food insecurity often have common root causes. Accordingly, measures that address these causes can reduce both problems at once. This is especially important for the many African countries that face daunting agricultural challenges.
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  Pacific Institute of Public Policy (PiPP)

  The Pacific Institute of Public Policy (PiPP) is an independent think tank serving the Pacific islands community.
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  Climate-driven or human-induced: indicating severe water scarcity in the Moulouya river basin (Morocco)

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2012

  Many agriculture-based economies are increasingly under stress from climate change and socio-economic pressures. In the Moulouya river basin, Morocco, natural water availability is a key resource for all economic activities and frequently occurring water deficits aggravated by climate change threaten many livelihoods dependent on agricultural production.
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  Malaria and agriculture: a global review of the literature with a focus on the application of integrated pest and vector management in East Africa and Uganda

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012

  Roughly half of the world's population lives at risk of contracting malaria, a disease which disproportionately affects the poor. As such, farming households are particularly vulnerable; malaria is therefore an intimate link between poverty, agriculture and health.
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  The state of food and agriculture: investing in agriculture for a better future

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012

  Recent food crises and growing concerns about global climate change have placed agriculture on top of the international agenda. Decision-makers have recognised the strong link between the dual goals of eradicating hunger and making agriculture sustainable.
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  Local perceptions and responses to climate change and variability: the case of Laikipia district, Kenya

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2012

  This empirical analysis of smallholders' perceptions of, and adaptation to, climate change demonstrates the value and importance of local knowledge in the Laikipia district, Kenya. The paper recognises that agricultural policies are presently short of mechanisms to promote farmers' adaptation, and that this has hindered agricultural production.
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  Improving crop yield and storing carbon. Biochar in conservation farming in Zambia. Phase 2 report 1

  Norwegian Geotechnical Institute / Norges Geotekniske Institutt, 2012

  The main aim of the project is to investigate the potential of organic waste biochar to sequester carbon and improve the fertility of weathered, sandy and/or acidic Zambian soils. Biochar amendment is exclusively combined with Conservation Farming (CF). In CF only 10-12% of the land is tilled.
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  Improving crop yield and storing carbon. Biochar in conservation farming in Zambia. End report phase 1

  Norwegian Geotechnical Institute / Norges Geotekniske Institutt, 2012

  The main aim of the project is to investigate the potential of organic waste biochar to sequester carbon and improve the fertility of weathered, sandy and/or acidic Zambian soils. Biochar amendment is exclusively combined with Conservation Farming (CF). In CF only10-12% of the land is tilled.
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  Biochar in conservation farming in Zambia. Improving crop yield and storing carbon. Progress report February 2011

  Norwegian Geotechnical Institute / Norges Geotekniske Institutt, 2011

  The main aim of the project is to investigate the potential of organic waste biochar to sequester carbon and improve the quality of weathered, sandy and/or acidic Zambian soils. Biochar amendment is exclusively combined with Conservation Farming (CF). In CF only 10-12% of the land is tilled.
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  Global Land Project (GLP)

  The Global Land Project is a research initiative of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP).

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