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    The adaptation advantage: The economic benefits of preparing small-scale farmers for climate change

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2013
    This paper features five case studies of rural development projects which represent a variety of situations in which environmental or climate-related problems pose a challenge to human development. The projects are based in Kenya, Turkey, Viet Nam, Bangladesh and Bolivia.
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    Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Garissa County, Kenya

    CARE International, 2013
    In Garissa County, the impacts of climate change are already being felt by communities, who are seeking ways to adapt to the changes and to build resilient livelihoods. These changes are combined with other environmental, economic and political factors to create a situation of increasing vulnerability for poor and marginalized households.
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    Growing disruption: climate change, food, and the fight against hunger

    Oxfam, 2013
    This briefing paper explores how the failure to tackle climate change threatens all aspects of food security – availability, access, utilisation, and stability. The changing climate is already jeopardising gains in the fight against hunger, and the authors argue that looks set to worsen.
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    Non timber forest products to deal with climate change in Tanzania

    Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2013
    Over 20 million Tanzanians depend on Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) for their livelihood. One CCIAM project is looking into how NTFPs as part of peoples´ livelihood strategy is connected to climate change, so that this information can be spread and forest dependent people can more easily adapt to the effects of climate change.
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    Climate change and adaptation: the case of Nigerian agriculture

    Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, 2013
    The paper offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80 per cent of agricultural value added. Uncertainty on future climate is captured, using, as input, yield changes computed by a crop model, covering the whole range of variability produced by an envelope of one RCM and tem GCM runs.
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    Perceptions of water access in the context of climate change by rural households in the Seke and Murewa districts, Zimbabwe

    Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 2013
    The objective of this study was to assess perceptions of rural household heads with regard to various aspects of water access and climate change, and to evaluate whether there were significant differences in perceptions of respondents from female-headed and male-headed households.
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    Climate change mitigation in Tanzania: agricultural production systems in Njombe. Work report from a study in a high altitude farming area.

    2013
    In Tanzania agriculture is almost entirely driven by smallholder farmers still depending on the hand hoe, traditional rain-fed agriculture, and animal husbandry practices. Women account for more than 70% of the agricultural production especially food crops, and they play an important role in the efforts to transform Tanzanian agriculture.
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    Malawi Climate Change Vulnerability Assesment

    US Agency for International Development, 2013
    The Malawi Vulnerability Assessment (Malawi VA) was an initiative of the USAID African and Latin American Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC). Its goal was to understand current and projected climate change impacts in central and southern Malawi, and to explore to what extent national and district government entities, rural communities, and households are equipped to adapt to those impacts.
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    Climate change and livestock production: A review with emphasis on Africa

    South African Journal of Animal Science, 2013
    Historic climate changes have already played a role in the demise or development of agricultural production systems. This review article gives insight into the possible effects of climate change on their production parameters. The results and predictions of global studies and simulations are summarized with special emphasis, where possible, on the southern African scenario.
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    Determinants of choice of crop variety as climate change adaptation option in arid regions of Zimbabwe

    Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2013
    This study used the multinomial logit model to analyse the determinants of farmers’ choice of crop variety in the face of climate change. The estimation of the multinomial logit was done by using the sorghum variety options as dependent variable and where farmers grow other crop different from sorghum as the reference state.

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