Search Results - "Climate variability and change"

Sources of vulnerability to a variable and changing climate among smallholder households in Zimbabwe: A participatory analysis by Rurinda, J.P., Mapfumo, Paul, Wijk, Mark T. van, Mtambanengwe, F., Rufino, Mariana C., Chikowo, Regis, Giller, Kenneth E.

“…Vulnerability analysis is essential for targeting adaptation options to impacts of climate variability and change, particularly in diverse systems with limited resources such as smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Adoption of Small-Scale Irrigation Farming as a Climate-Smart Agriculture Practice and Its Influence on Household Income in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa by Mango, Nelson, Makate, Clifton, Tamene, Lulseged D., Mponela, Powell, Ndengu, Gift

“…This will go a long way in mitigating the adverse effects that accompany climate variability and change in the region…”
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Types of climate risk by Engdaw, Mastawesha Misganaw

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Water and agriculture vulnerability to climate change and adaptive capacity in southern Africa. by Nhamo, L., Chilonda, Pius

“…Africa, particularly Southern Africa, is projected to be the region most vulnerable to the impacts of climate variability and change especially in agriculture and water. …”
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Cost and benefit analysis for climate-smart agricultural (csa) practices in the coastal savannah agro-ecological zone (aez) of Ghana by Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley, Miller, Vail, Owuso Essegbey, George, Karbo, Naaminong, Ansah, V., Nautsukpo, Delali, Kingsley, Sam, Girvetz, Evan Hartunian

“…Yet, despite the concern about the threat caused by climate variability and change, little empirical analysis has been carried out to date on how best to tackle it. …”
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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 by Steeg, Jeannette van de, Herrero, Mario, Notenbaert, An Maria Omer

“…To quantify the magnitudes of the effects of climate variability and change on the productivity of rangelands, crops and livestock and how these changes affect agropastoralists, spatial data layers were created, collated and documented related to climate variability and change, production systems, primary production, vulnerability and feed resources. …”
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Weather /Climate Manual for Agriculture by Martey, Francisca

“…Agriculture is an economic activity that produce food necessary for human livelihood and it is highly dependent upon weather and climate; however, agriculture is also likely to be very vulnerable to climate variability and change. Climate variability and climate change are the main causes of stress on food production and availability.…”
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Climate-induced migration and unemployment in middle-income Africa by Mueller, Valerie, Gray, Clark, Hopping, Douglas

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Climate variability and maize yield in the Limpopo region of South Africa: Results from GME and MELE methods by Akpalu, Wisdom, Rashid, Hassan M., Ringler, Claudia

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Spatio-temporal patterns of dry and wet spells in Ghana's Savanna and Transitional Zones: a 40-year analysis by Obahoundje, Salomon, Tilahun, Seifu A., Schmitter, Petra S.

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CCAFS climate change and social learning strategy by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is implementing a uniquely innovative and transformative research program that addresses agriculture and food security in the context of climate variability, climate change and uncertainty about future climate conditions.…”
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Climate services for farmers by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Climate information services are a concrete and powerful tool that live up to the promise of adaptation—helping farmers adjust to the impacts of climate variability and change—to both protect against drought and take advantage of good conditions. …”
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Climate solutions that work for farmers: Stories from the field by Pye-Smith, Charlie

“…Smallholder farmers in developing countries are likely to be among the people hardest hit by climate change because of agriculture’s dependence on weather and the low level of resilience of farming to climate variability and change. The good news is that innovative approaches are being developed to meet this challenge. …”
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Training material for attribution of climate change and Its impacts climate. As part of the AGNES’s course on climate outlook, impact assessment, and climate risk assessment cohort... by Engdaw, Mastawesha Misganaw

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Climate variability and simultaneous breadbasket yield shocks as observed in long-term yield records by Anderson, Weston, Baethgen, Walter, Capitanio, Fabian, Ciais, Philippe, Cook, Benjamin I., You, Liangzhi

“…That climate variability and change can potentially force multiple simultaneous breadbasket crop yield shocks has been established. …”
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Linking farmers with markets - Bolivia and Peru. Implementation of farmer business school to improve small-scale farmer access to markets. Project profile by International Potato Center

“…This project fights rural poverty by helping male and female farmers become profitable potato business managers with enhanced resilience to climate variability and change.…”
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Radio spots with agroclimatic information from the Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees (LTAC) for the ASO 2022 climate forecast in Eastern Guatemala (Spanish) by Hernández Quevedo, Mónica, Navarro Racines, Carlos Eduardo

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Spore special issue: Global warming: Doing business in a time of climate change by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Smallholder farmers in developing countries are likely to be hardest hit by climate change due to agriculture’s vulnerability to extreme weather patterns and the low level of resilience of farming to climate variability and change. The good news is that innovative approaches are being developed to meet this challenge. …”
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The Case for Agricultural Climate Services in Africa by Hansen, James, Bradley-Cook, Julia, Apotsos, Alex, Blumenstock, Ali, Vaughan, Catherine, Carr, Edward R.

“…Unfortunately, those farmers face significant impacts from climate variability and change. These impacts disrupt their ability to meet livelihoods and sustenance needs, and to produce enough food for a growing world. …”
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Climate Information Services: Understand your climate by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

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