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Climate change impacts on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from comprehensive climate change scenarios by Ringler, Claudia, Zhu, Tingju, Cai, Ximing, Koo, Jawoo, Wang, Dingbao

“…Based on past performance, the effects of temperature and precipitation across the 17 GCMs are incorporated into a global hydrological model that is linked with IFPRI's IMPACT water and food projections model to assess the effects of climate change on food outcomes for the region. …”
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How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: Micro-level analysis of farmers’ adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa by Nhemachena, Charles, Hassan, Rashid M.

“…The study identifies farmers’ perceptions of climate change and the determinants of farm-level adaptation strategies, and recommends policies that could help stabilize national and regional food production given the anticipated adverse effects of climate change.…”
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How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: Risk aversion in low-income countries: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia by Yesuf, Mahmud, Bluffstone, Randy

“…The study identifies farmers’ perceptions of climate change and the determinants of farm- evel adaptation strategies, and recommends policies that could help stabilize national and regional food production given the anticipated adverse effects of climate change.…”
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Community voices on climate, peace, and security: Mindanao, Philippines by Medina, Leonardo, Savelli, Adam, Souza de Matos, Vanessa, Kizilkaya, Setenay, Torres, Mark Anthony, Arcede, Jayrold, Jaquet, Stéphanie, Sabugaa, Michael, Hellin, Jon, Sieber, Stefan, Bonatti, Michelle, Pacillo, Grazia

“…Based on the qualitative analysis of data gathered through focus group discussions with community members in each location, we identified four causal pathways through which the effects of climate change undermine institutional and community capacities for sustainable peacebuilding in Mindanao’s post-conflict setting. …”
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Climate smart agriculture and food systems that reduce poverty and hunger by Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…Poor communities that rely on functioning food systems for their livelihoods are highly vulnerable to the devastating effects of climate change while agri-food systems are significant emitters of greenhouse gases. …”
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Diversity and diversification in banana: How in silico chromosome painting opens new perspectives for the conservation of an iconic fruit by Sardos, Julie

“…Finally, these discoveries could also trigger the direct use of existing banana genetic resources to buffer the effects of climate change on traditional agrosystems.…”
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Beyond the climate science: CCAFS downscaled climate data applied by development agencies around the world by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The result was the successful development of CCAFS-Climate, a data portal that has become the place to get free and open-access downscaled climate data useful for understanding the effects of climate change on agriculture. The portal includes the MarkSim GCM tool, which generates plausible daily data for future climates. …”
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Climate readiness in smallholder agricultural systems: lessons learned from REDD+ by Zurek, M., Streck, C., Roe, S, Haupt, F.

“…In many countries, and particularly in developing countries with a large smallholder population, the agricultural sector faces competing priorities, such as national food security goals, poverty alleviation, addressing natural resource degradation and adapting to the already visible effects of climate change. Many of these goals are closer to the immediate, short-term priorities of national decision-makers, relegating climate change mitigation to a secondary priority. …”
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New directions in participatory plant breeding for eco-efficient agriculture = Nuevas direcciones en el fitomejoramiento participativo para la agricultura eco-eficiente by Biermayr Jenzano, Patricia

“…Resource-poor farmers need strategies to be able to adapt to the changing conditions, over and above their ongoing efforts to raise themselves to a higher state of well-being out of poverty. As the effects of climate change are increasingly felt worldwide, especially in the humid and semi-arid tropics, dry areas; and other regions with extreme; climates;there is an increasing need for crop breeding and variety development to become more adapted to changing weather events while making production more efficient. …”
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Smallholder Farmers’ Perceptions on Climate Change and the Use of Sustainable Agricultural Practices in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa by Makate, Clifton, Makate, Marshall, Mango, Nelson

“…This is plausible as the adaptation and pliability of farmers to the effects of climate change should be a social process involving the collective efforts from various stakeholders.…”
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Opportunities for smallholder farmers to benefit from conservation agricultural practices by Nhamo, N., Lungu, O.N.

“…Given the changes in climate and the challenges with soils that may not respond to soil amendments, it is important to define boundary conditions under which CA techniques will deliver on improving production and at the same time mitigate the effects of climate change through improved resource use efficiency. …”
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Social Seed Networks for Climate Change Adaptation in Western Kenya: Results from a study to better understand farmers’ primary sources of seed information in the Nyando Climate-Sm... by Otieno, Gloria Atieno, Lacasse, Hannah, Fadda, Carlo, Reynolds, Travis W., Recha, John W.M.

“…Kenyan smallholder farmers are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including increased temperatures and variability in precipitation, which results in shorter growing seasons in most areas of East Africa (Adhikari et al. 2015). …”
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Importance of considering technology growth in impact assessments of climate change on agriculture by Aggarwal, Pramod K., Vyas, Shalika, Thornton, Philip K., Campbell, Bruce M., Kropff, Martin

“…We find that observed yield changes are considerably higher than projected yield changes arising from climate change because technological improvements appear to have a large yield-enhancing impact compared with the negative effects of climate change, at least in the short term. Most assessments of climate change impacts on crop yields show low-latitude, low and middle-income countries as highly vulnerable but these countries have shown the largest growth in observed yields over the same reference time period. …”
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Building gender-sensitive climate-smart agriculture approaches for sustainable food-energy systems by Yami, Mastewal, Haddis, Edom, Birhane, Emiru, Kidu, Gidey

“…The poor representation and involvement of women in decision-making processes in the agricultural sector has limited their contributions to addressing the adverse effects of climate change, energy shortages, food insecurity, and poverty. …”
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Does the adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices pay off? Evidence on maize yields from Western Kenya. by Kanyenji, George Magambo, Oluoch-Kosura,Willis, Onyango, Cecilia Moraa, Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley

“…Soil carbon enhancing practices (SCEPs) have been proven to be low-cost solutions in enhancing agricultural productivity and alleviate the detrimental effects of climate change. These practices can be adopted as complementary or as substitute practices due to their associated ecological benefits and cost. …”
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Rolling out climate smart Cocoa through public-private partnership in Ghana: A Framework highlighting the step-by-step procedure towards climate smart cocoa finance in Ghana by Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan, Kofituo, Rich Kofi, Asare, Richard

“…The Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) through the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ghana together with the Rainforest Alliance has recently documented and aligned Climate Smart Cocoa practices across the three impact zones to help farmers mitigate the effects of climate change. This document is a step-by-step process to facilitate the partnership among public and private sector financing of Climate smart cocoa (CSC).…”
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Fonio and Bambara Groundnut value chains in Mali: issues, needs, and opportunities for their sustainable promotion by Mbosso, Charlie, Boulay, Basile, Padulosi, Stefano, Meldrum, Gennifer, Mohamadou, Youssoufa, Berthe Niang, Aminata, Coulibaly, Harouna, Koreissi, Yara, Sidibé, Amadou

“…As the effects of climate change are severely straining West African agricultural systems, the adoption of more incisive interventions in support of sustainable development agendas for the region is highly critical and cannot be further delayed by governments. …”
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Closing Gender Gaps in Farmers’ Access to Climate Information: The Case of Radio Listeners Clubs (RLCs) in Rwanda: Preliminary results of a mixed-method analysis by Ingabire, Chantal

“…Gender disparities inherent in most of these communities tend to impact individuals’ capacity to combat and build resilience to the adverse effects of climate change. Women farmers are more affected than men due to inequitable access and control of productive resources as well as unequal intra-household power relations that limit their ability to adapt to climate variability and change. …”
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The determinants of common bean variety selection and diversification in Colombia by Botero, Hernan, Barnes, Andrew P., Pérez Marulanda, Lisset, Ríos, David, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…We investigate the drivers behind common bean variety selection and diversification in one of the most important common bean production regions in Colombia —Santander. The effects of climate change on this region are expected to be elevation driven. …”
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FR2.3: Even the Goats Feel the Heat: Gender, Livestock Rearing, Rangeland Cultivation, and Climate Change Adaptation in Tunisia by Najjar, Dina

“…Women's contributions to rangeland cultivation in Tunisia and the effects of climate change upon their livelihoods are both policy blind spots. …”
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