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This study applied at the farm level in Tunisia aims at understanding the effects of climate change on agricultural productivity and income in Africa. Possible future climates are presented through different climate scenarios. The latter combines three levels of increasing temperature...
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"Climate change is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts on South Africa. In particular, rural farmers, whose livelihoods depend on the use of natural resources, are likely to bear the brunt of adverse impacts. The extent to which these impacts are felt depends in...
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model and a multinomial logit (MNL) model are used to examine the determinants of adaptation to climate change and …
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The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … contributors of East African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and … biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050 …
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should be done in the future? In 2011, agriculture moved to the forefront of the international development agenda. In … addition to producing adequate food, agriculture's crucial role in improving nutrition and health, sustainably making use of …
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The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … editors and contributors of West African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine … economic and biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources …
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pace of climate change, combined with global population and income growth, threatens food security everywhere. Agriculture … of climate change on agriculture are expected to be negative, threatening global food security. Populations in the … half of the economically active population in developing countries—2.5 billion people—relied on agriculture for its …
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infrastructure development, high literacy rates, and low shares of agriculture in total GDP, are relatively low on the vulnerability … densely populated rural areas, large numbers of small-scale farmers, high dependency on rainfed agriculture and high land …
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combines the advantages of a partial equilibrium approach, which considers detailed water-agriculture linkages, with a general … equilibrium approach, which takes into account linkages between agriculture and nonagricultural sectors and includes a full …
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