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  1. Weather-based index insurance: a climate-smart agricultural solution for smallholder farmers by Ajayi, Oluyede C., Kadzamira, Mariam A.T.J.

    Published 2019
    “…The athors explain how CTA has been bundling weather-based index insurance with other services to increase the resilience of 140,000 smallholder households in Southern Africa to climatic changes.…”
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    Magazine Article
  2. Agroecology-inspired strategies and tools to enhace resilience and ecosystem services in tomato crop (ASTER) by Guerrieri, Emilio, Todeschini, Valeria, Zappalà, Lucia, Franco, Jose C., Urbaneja, Alberto, Broufas, George, Kapranas, Apostolos, Karatolos, Nikolaos, Karaca, Ismail, Chermiti, Brahim, Labidi, Sonia, Mamza, Amel M., Benzina, Farida, Bouamri, Rachid, El Ghachtouli, Naima

    Published 2024
    “…Regardless of the type of cultivation or the duration of the cycle, increasing quantities of external inputs (pesticides, fertilisers, herbicides) are required to cope with i) nutrition issues linked to the deployment of the soil, ii) resident and invasive species made more aggressive by the climatic change and the development of pesticide resistance; iii) water limitation which is more critical in arid and semi-arid climates of the Mediterranean area due to climatic change. …”
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    Objeto de conferencia
  3. Between danger and opportunity: Indonesian and forests in an era of economic crisis and political change by Sunderlin, William D.

    Published 1999
    “…Yet some of the most important changes in conditions affecting tropical forests can occur when the political and economic climate changes in abrupt, unpredicted, and largely uncontrolled manner. …”
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    Journal Article
  4. Household livelihood strategies and livestock benefits dependence in Gaza province of Mozambique by Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley, Steeg, Jeannette van de, Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Moyo, Siboniso, Herrero, Mario

    Published 2011
    “…As expected, the analysis indicate how differential access to, or endowment of, livelihood assets determines the choice of a household's strategy in the climatic change context and the risks profiles associated with agro-pastoralist. …”
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    Journal Article
  5. Congruent phylogeographic patterns of eight tree species in Atlantic Central Africa provide insights on the past dynamics of forest cover by Dauby, G., Duminil, J., Heuertz, M., Koffi, G.K., Stevart, T., Hardy, Olivier J.

    Published 2014
    “…Cycles of Quaternary climatic change are assumed to be major drivers of African rainforest dynamics and evolution. …”
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    Journal Article
  6. Water, agriculture and poverty in the Niger River Basin by Ogilvie, A., Mahe, G., Ward, J., Serpantie, G., Lemoalle, J., Morand, P., Barbier, Bruno, Diop, Amadou Tamsir, Caron, A., Namara, Regassa E., Kaczan, D., Lukasiewicz, A., Paturel, J.E., Lienou, G., Clanet, J.C.

    Published 2010
    “…Rapidly increasing population, climatic changes and dam construction contribute to rural vulnerability.…”
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    Journal Article
  7. Pepper rootstocks modulate hormonal balance on grafted plants to overcome water stress by Padilla, Yaiza Gara, Gisbert-Mullor, Ramón, López-Galarza, Salvador, Albacete, Alfonso, Martínez-Melgarejo, Purificación A., Calatayud, Ángeles

    Published 2024
    “…Under the climatic change scenario, drought is one of the most important constraints to affect crop growth, productivity and quality. …”
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  8. CGIAR Research Proposal 3.2: Maize: Global Alliance for Improving Food Security and the Livelihoods of the Resource-poor in the Developing World by International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

    Published 2011
    “…The strategy is designed to ensure that publicly-funded international agricultural research helps most effectively to double the productivity of maize-based farming systems, making them more resilient and sustainable and significantly increasing farmers’ income and livelihood opportunities, without using more land and as climates change and fertilizer, water, and labor costs rise. …”
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    Proposal
  9. Vulnerable to verdant: turning flood risk into farm resource by Signs, M.

    Published 2021
    “…But what if you were able to achieve a more than 500% increase in just three years, specifically in an area where there had been virtually no crop production in the past, all while making pastoralist more resilient to climatic changes and reducing the risk of water related disasters?…”
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    Blog Post

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