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West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Jalloh, Abdulai; Nelson, Gerald C.; Thomas, Timothy S.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa — Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea,...
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West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Jalloh, Abdulai (contributor); Nelson, Gerald C. (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa – Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145651
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Pastoralism and resilience south of the Sahara:
Little, Peter D.; McPeak, John G. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
communities in the face of increasingly extreme weather events. The other is recurrent humanitarian crises, especially traced to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277421
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2012 Global Food Policy Report
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2013
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010630750
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Demand for complementary financial and technological tools for managing drought risk:
Ward, Patrick S.; Spielman, David J.; Ortega, David L.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
Weather-related production risks remain one of the most serious constraints to agricultural production in much of the … manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272213
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Insuring against the weather:
Berhane, Guush; Clarke, Daniel J.; Dercon, Stefan; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277411
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Addressing weather shocks: Promoting resilient aspirations for the rural poor:
Kosec, Katrina; Khan, Huma; Seyoum Taffesse, Alemayehu; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277414
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Weather risks and insurance opportunities for the rural poor:
Ceballos, Francisco; Robles, Miguel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277416
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The role of extension and advisory services in building resilience of smallholder farmers:
Davis, Kristin E.; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Blom, Sylvia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
The assumption underlying this hypothesis is that farmers lack the knowledge, resources, or both to adequately prevent, anticipate, prepare for, cope with, and recover from shocks. Extension and advisory services may be able to rectify this information asymmetry, or knowledge inequality, by...
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Local Warming and Violent Conflict in North and South Sudan:
Calderone, Margherita; Maystadt, Jean-Francois; You, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Weather shocks and natural disasters, it has been argued, represent a major threat to national and international … weather shocks and conflict by focusing on a pixel-level analysis for North and South Sudan at different geographical and time … scales between 1997 and 2009. Temperature anomalies are found to strongly affect the risk of conflict. In the future the risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685635