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smallholder producers in Kenya. Several practices emerge as triple wins in terms of climate adaptation, GHG mitigation, and …-win strategies will have the greatest payoff in terms of increased resilience of farm and pastoralist households to climate change …, rural development, and climate change mitigation for generations to come. …
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The purpose of the paper is to identify how climate change affects how we should approach the process of transforming agricultural systems (including crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) to support global food security and poverty reduction in a sustainable way. We also identify...
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mitigation options for three agricultural sources of GHGs—methane (CH4) emissions from irrigated rice production, nitrous oxide … great opportunities for cost-effective mitigation of GHGs in Indian agriculture, but caution that our results are based on a …
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needed adaptation measures. The potential annual value stream for Sub-Saharan Africa from mitigating GHG emissions is … estimated to be US$4.8 billion at carbon prices of US$0–20/tCO2e. Moreover, agricultural mitigation measures, including soil and … water conservation and agroforestry practices, also enhance ecosystem functioning, providing resilience against droughts …
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resources. Mitigation of the adverse effects of climate change is a high priority on the international agenda. Carbon trading … countries). The potential for mitigation through agriculture in the African region is estimated at 17 percent of the global … total, and the economic potential (i.e. considering carbon prices) is estimated at 10 percent of the total global mitigation …
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degradation. These large differences in the extent of vulnerability among provinces suggest that policy makers should develop …"This paper analyzes the vulnerability of South African farmers to climate change and variability by developing a … vulnerability index and comparing vulnerability indicators across the nine provinces of the country. Nineteen environmental and …
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change, assess the extent of the area's vulnerability, and help identify adaptation options. This brief is based on a paper …. These meetings explored stakeholders' perceptions of vulnerability to climate change and considered ways in which adaptation … climate change requires that policymakers and stakeholders work together to integrate climate change adaptation into the …
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brief is based on a paper that analyzes the vulnerability of Ethiopian farmers to climate change by creating a vulnerability … index and comparing vulnerability indicators across regions. A regional vulnerability index can assist in identifying the … adaptation may be most effective in reducing the future adverse effects of climate change." from text …
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climate-related shocks. Assessing household vulnerability is important because efficient social policy needs to go beyond … vulnerability, not just decreased expected income. This brief is based on a paper that uses farm households' responses to climate … vulnerability to future climate change by assessing their probability of falling below an income threshold as a result of future …
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