can be traced to two major international issues. The first is climate change, concerned with how to build resilient … communities in the face of increasingly extreme weather events. The other is recurrent humanitarian crises, especially traced to …

The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo — and explores how climate … pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater. West Africa is …

The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A …, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo – and explores how climate change … natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater. West Africa is already experiencing …

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 …

the climate projection and the estimate of the response of violence to temperature variations. Extreme temperature shocks …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 …