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smallholder producers in Kenya. Several practices emerge as triple wins in terms of climate adaptation, GHG mitigation, and …, 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 …, respectively, of the global total potential for mitigation in these sectors. However, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are …
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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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(SLWM) practices that provide local mitigation benefits, reducing or offsetting the negative effects of climate change at … the level of the plot, farm, or even landscape. However, adaptation to climate change using SLWM practices in sub …-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains low. This study was conducted to examine the impact of government policies on adaptation to climate …
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The goal of this research was to examine the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh, and develop recommendations to policymakers to help farmers adapt to the changes. In this study, we use climate data from four general circulation models (GCMs) to evaluate the impact of...
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rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the …
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Cambodia has been identified as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, given the predicted changes in temperature and precipitation, the share of labor in agriculture, and the country’s low adaptive capacity due to widespread poverty. In this study, we use climate data...
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