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    Future climate scenarios for Uganda's tea growing areas

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2011
    This document is a report about the study of the future climate scenarios for Uganda’s tea growing areas. Its objectives are to develop future climate scenarios indicating the adaptability/suitability of tea under changing climatic conditions for Uganda’s tea growing zones, and potentials for alternative crops suitable under predicted climate change. It attempts to predict the:
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    Policy brief: opportunities and challenges for climate-smart agriculture in Africa

    World Bank, 2011
    Ensuring food security under a changing climate is a major challenges to African countries because their agriculture is so highly vulnerable. To attain poverty alleviation and food security goals, the continent will have to adopt strong measures and will require financing to support them.
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    Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: rethinking the links in the rural South

    University of Durham, 2006
    Livelihoods in the rural South are becoming increasingly separated from farming and land. Non-farm opportunities have expanded and increased the levels of mobility leading to the delocalisation of livelihoods. This requires a reconsideration of some old questions regarding how best to achieve pro-poor development in the Rural South.
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    Agricultural adaptation, local knowledge and livelihoods diversification in North-Central Namibia

    Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2009
    The potential implications of climate change have started to receive more attention in Namibia. Water demand in the country is projected to exceed its extraction capacity by 2015, meaning that climate change will adversely affect the agricultural sector. This report looks at adaptation to climate change amongst smallholder farmers in the Omusati region of North-Central Namibia.
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    The rural non-farm economy: prospects for growth and poverty reduction

    The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2010
    Non-farm earnings account for 35 to 50 per cent of rural household income across the developing world. Landless and near-landless households everywhere depend heavily on non-farm income for their survival, while agricultural households count on non-farm earnings to diversify risk, moderate seasonal income swings and finance agricultural input purchases.
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    Rural Africa at the crossroads: livelihoods, practices and policies

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2000
    The last two decades of the 20th century have been a period of change for sub-Saharan African economies. Structural Adjustment Programmes have triggered a huge, unplanned income diversification response in African rural areas making rural populations become more occupationally flexible, spatially mobile and increasingly dependent on non-agricultural income-generating activities.
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    Bioforsk / Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research

    Bioforsk conducts applied and specifically targeted research linked to multifunctional agriculture and rural development, plant sciences, environmental protection and natural resource management.
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    Smallholder farmers’ perceptions of climate change and conservation agriculture: evidence from Zambia

    Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2011
    Actors involved in promoting conservation agriculture have often not taken into account the perceptions of smallholder farmers of climate change and conservation agriculture as an adaptation strategy. This study documents smallholder farmers’ perceptions of climate change and conservation agriculture in Zambia.
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    Global biofuel expansion and the demand for Brazilian land: intensification versus expansion

    AgEcon Search, 2011
    The rapid increase in global biofuel production and consumption, particularly of ethanol, has an associated derived demand for crops to produce the necessary feedstock. This working paper assess the implications of global biofuel expansion on Brazilian land usage at the regional level.
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    The future of pastoralism in a changing climate

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2011
    Pastoralism is a free-range livestock production system. It is practised in all of Africa’s dryland regions, and in some communities it is the main source of food security and income. But will pastoralism survive in the changing climate? This issue of Joto Afrika provides research findings, lessons learnt and success stories from across Africa.

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