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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 … long-run production declines. Although there will be gains in some crops in some regions of the world, the overall impacts … of climate change on agriculture are expected to be negative, threatening global food security. Populations in the …
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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 … irrigated food production, both scenarios help lower world food prices, stimulating national and international food markets …
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"We combined a hydro-crop model with a dynamic general equilibrium (DCGE) model to assess the impacts of climate variability and change on economic growth and poverty reduction in Zambia. The hydro-crop model is first used to estimate the impact of climate variability on crop yields over the...
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This paper examines how a changing climate may affect rice production and how Vietnamese farmers are likely to adapt to various climatic conditions using an innovative yield function approach, taking into account sample selection bias and endogeneity of inputs. Model results suggest that...
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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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