Search Results - "Climatic Change"

Payments for adding ecosystem carbon are mostly beneficial to biodiversity by Larjavaara, M., Davenport, T.R.B., Gangga, A., Holm, S., Kanninen, M., Nguyen, D.T.

“…Biodiversity conservation is often considered to be an important co-benefit of REDD+ and other mechanisms aiming to increase carbon in biomass and soil to mitigate climate change. This reasoning is based on the assumption that the level of biodiversity and ecosystem carbon are positively correlated. …”
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Mapping tree species distribution in support of China's integrated tree-livestock-crop system by Ranjitkar, S., Bu, D.P., Sujakhu, N.M., Gilbert, M., Robinson, Timothy P., Kindt, R., Xu, J.C.

“…Limited land, competition between crop and livestock farming and climate change are major challenges. Agroforestry offer a form of sustainable agriculture through the direct provision of food by raising farmers’ incomes and through various ecosystem services. …”
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Agroforestry: An effective multi-dimensional mechanism for achieving Sustainable Development Goals by Goparaju, L., Ahmad, F., Uddin, M., Rizvi, J.

“…The outcome of the evaluation highlights that agroforestry can contribute very significantly and can play a vital role in SDG-1, SDG-2, SDG-11, SDG-13, and SDG-15 directly in mitigating poverty, contributing towards food security, improving in creating a viable healthy city and in providing a sustainable overall prosperous environment in the prevailing climate change setup whereas indirectly it can serve others SDGs goals simultaneously that aim to provide better health and education, women empowerment, effective contribution towards clean water and energy for all sections of the society/citizen. …”
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Variation in aboveground biomass in forests and woodlands in Tanzania along gradients in environmental conditions and human use by Suarez, D.R., Rozendaal, D.M.A., Sy, Veronique de, Gibbs, D.A., Harris, N.L., Sexton, J.O., Feng, M., Channan, S., Zahabu, E., Silayo, D.S., Pekkarinen, A., Martius, C., Herold, M.

“…Disturbed African tropical forests and woodlands have the potential to contribute to climate change mitigation. Therefore, there is a need to understand how carbon stocks of disturbed and recovering tropical forests are determined by environmental conditions and human use. …”
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The context of REDD+ in Myanmar: Drivers, agents and institutions [Burmese] by Oo, T.N., Hlaing, E.E.S., Aye, Y.Y., Chan, N., Maung, N.L., Phyoe, S.S., Thu, P., Pham Thu Thuy, Maharani, C., Moeliono, M., Gangga, A., Dwisatrio, B., Kyi, M.K.M., San, S.M.

“…Myanmar established and developed its National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS) and Reference Emission Levels (RELs) for REDD+ following the guidance and modalities set out by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Implementing REDD+ requires political commitment to address direct and indirect drivers of deforestation, an adequate funding mechanism that is based on a thorough analysis of all costs and benefits, a transparent and equitable benefit-sharing mechanism, and a participatory decision-making approach in which all stakeholders can take part in REDD+. …”
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Future food systems: challenges and consequences of the current food system by Tutundjian, S., Clarke, M., Egal, F., Dixson-Decleve, S., Candotti, S. W., Schmitter, Petra S., Lovins, L. H.

“…Currently, food systems are a significant driver of climate change, nature loss, and pollution, as well as poor health and poverty, with inequitable access to resources and benefits from food systems. …”
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Sustaining tank irrigation in South India through time-tested measures by Kuppannan, Palanisami, Thangavel, M.

“…Given the future impacts of climate change on water resources, sustaining tank irrigation is considered important. …”
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Strengthening Local Governance of Secondary Forest in Peru by Sears, R.R., Guariguata, Manuel R., Cronkleton, P., Miranda Beas, C.

“…In Peru, strengthening local forest governance could help to drive benefits of climate change mitigation incentives directly to local forest stewards.…”
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Rehabilitation of degraded rangelands in Jordan: The effects of mechanized micro water harvesting on hill-slope scale soil water and vegetation dynamics by Strohmeier, S., Fukai, S., Haddad, M., AlNsour, M., Mudabber, M., Akimoto, K., Yamamoto, S., Evett, S. R., Oweis, T.

“…Overexploitation and climate change accelerates the degradation of Jordan’s arid rangelands. …”
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To farm or not to farm: Understanding the determinants of youth livelihood aspirations in Vietnam by Arora, Diksha, Slavchevska, Vanya

“…We pay special attention to youth interest in agriculture, social (parental) influences, structural constraints (land, inputs, capital, market, and credit), and the precariousness of agricultural work due to the worsening impact of climate change. The findings of the study reveal that land access is a critical factor for young men’s aspirations, although less important for young women’s aspirations, and the experiences of negative climatic shocks are strongly and negatively associated with youth aspirations to work in agriculture. …”
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Challenges in the governance of community-managed forests in Ethiopia: review by Yami, M., Mekuria, Wolde

“…There is also a need to revisit the practice of evaluating the performance of community-managed forests almost exclusively based on the goals of climate change adaptation and mitigation and biodiversity conservation.…”
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Opportunity cost of adopting improved planted forage: Evidence from the adoption of Brachiaria grass among smallholder dairy farmers in Kenya by Maina, Kevin W., Ritho, C.N., Lukuyu, Ben A., Rao, E.J.O.

“…However, farmers’ efforts are aggravated by the effects of climate change. The need arises for a sustainable source of fodder to alleviate the situation, while at the same time offering farmers other opportunities to participate in fodder markets through the adoption of climate-smart Brachiaria grass. …”
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Potential energy yields of bioenergy crops in the tropics by Shin, S., Bulusu, M., Hartwig, A-M., Ulrich, M., Lee, S.M., Baral, H., Borchard, N.

“…Bioenergy can produce at least 25% of the global energy demand to combat climate change through reducing emissions in the energy sector. …”
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Mining and utilization of salinity tolerant legumes in tropical coastal agroecosystems: An overview by Liu, Yiming, Atieno, Mary, Cardoso, Juan Andrés, Yang, Hubiao, Xu, Bin, Dong, Rongshu, Yang, Linling, Huang, Chunquiong, Huan, Hengfu, Yu, Daogeng, Douxchamps, Sabine, Liu, Guodao

“…Coastal saline soils are increasing year by year caused by climate change and human activities. Most of the coastal saline soils are idle due to their high salinity level and few crops can grow normally. …”
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Evaluation of WRF model rainfall forecast using citizen science in a data-scarce urban catchment: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Tedla, H. Z., Taye, E. F., Walker, D. W., Haile, Alemseged Tamiru

“…Study focus: Understanding the accuracy of rainfall forecasts in the data-scarce urban catchment has a multitude of benefits given the increased urban flood risk caused by climate change and urbanization. In this study, accuracy of the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model rainfall forecast was evaluated using citizen science data. …”
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Barriers, incentive mechanisms, and roles of institutions in scaling climate-smart agriculture (CSA) interventions in rice growing environments in Mali by Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald, Arouna, Aminou, Bryan, Elizabeth, Ringler, Claudia, Mujawamariya, Gaudiose, Benfica, Rui, Freed, Sarah, Yossa, Rodrigue

“…Climate change has many facets, including changes in long-term trends in temperature and rainfall regimes, increased year-to-year variability, and frequency of extreme events. …”
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Large genomic introgression blocks of Phaseolus parvifolius Freytag bean into the common bean enhance the crossability between tepary and common beans by Barrera, Santos, Berny Mier y Teran, Jorge Carlos, Lobaton, Juan David, Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt Humberto, Gepts, Paul L., Beebe, Stephen E., Urrea, Carlos A.

“…The development of these lines opens up the possibility of increasing the introgression of desirable tepary bean traits into the common bean to address constraints driven by climate change.…”
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Responding to Environmental Issues through Adaptive Collaborative Management: From Forest Communities to Global Actors by Pierce Colfer, Carol J., Prabhu, Ravi

“…These authors reflect critically on their own experience and local site conditions to glean insights that guide us in more effectively addressing climate change and other forest-related challenges. They showcase how global and regional actors will have to work more closely with smallholders, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, recognizing the key local roles in forest stewardship. …”
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Sorghum production in Nigeria: Opportunities, constraints, and recommendations by Ahmad Yahaya, Muhammad, Shimelis, Hussein, Nebie, Baloua, Ojiewo, Christopher Ochieng, Danso-Abbeam, Gideon

“…Moench) production has considerable socio-economic values in sub-Saharan Africa for food security and to serve the increased industrial demands due to high population pressure and climate change. However, the production and productivity of the crop are yet to be expounded in Nigeria for economic gains. …”
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Production variability and adaptation strategies of Ugandan smallholders in the face of climate variability and market shocks by Wichern, Jannike, Hammond, James, Wijk, Mark T. van, Giller, Kenneth E., Descheemaeker, Katrien K.

“…The restricted application of ex-ante adaptation strategies and the fact that major ex-post adaptation strategies were inaccessible for large parts of the population is alarming considering that climate change studies show that weather variability and extreme weather events are expected to worsen and to jeopardize crop production. …”
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