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 …

The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … 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 management to 2050 …

result found a significant difference (.001; .002) in the profit efficiency among young males and females rice and maize … attention given to young female rice and maize producer-marketers given that cost of agrochemical and improved seed varieties … significantly affect their profitability. Young females engaged in the rice and maize value chains could benefit from setting up …

spring wheat at the provincial level across European Russia. We modeled the annual yield potentials from 1995 to 2006 with …

present synthesis of two detailed country studies confirmed widespread adoption of zero tillage (ZT) wheat in the rice-wheat … for wheat cultivation. Thus, the prime driver for ZT adoption is not water savings or natural resource conservation but …

How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops … yields - rice yields are reduced by rainfall extremes whereas extremely high temperatures make yields of all three crops …