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Impact of climate change on African agriculture: focus on pests and diseases
According to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, changes in the climate over the last 30 years have already reduced global agricultural production by 1 – 5 % per decade relative to a baseline without climate change. In addition, recent studies indicate that even a 2 degrees increase in global temperature will affect agricultural productivity, particularly in the tropics, and this impact will rise with increases in temperature.
ILRI Corporate Report 2008-9. Climate, livestock and poverty: Challenges at the interface
Worldwide, agriculture both contributes to and is threatened by climate change. This corporate report focuses on the millions of people in developing countries for whom climate change represents a direct threat to their food security and livestock-based livelihoods.
ILCA glossary of livestock and related terms. English-French
This handy glossary (giving French equivalents of alphabetically listed English terms but not vice versa), was compiled by staff at the ILCA French Copy Unit in Addis Ababa over a period of more than 10 years, and is sure to become a most useful aid for translators, interpreters and scientists working in the various fields of animal agriculture (including feed crop production).
ILRI strategy to 2010. Making the livestock revolution work for the poor
This document is divided in four parts. The first part, external influences shaping ILRI's strategy, discusses the role of livestock in poverty alleviation, food and nutritional security, the environment and human health, livestock demand and production trends, productivity challenge, evolution of livestock systems, trends in science and information technologies and stakeholders for international livestock research. The second part highlights rationale for strategic choices while the third part outlines the strategic choices.
Implications of climate change for sustainable agricultural production systems in ACP countries: Getting information and communication strategies right: compilation document
This publication provides a summary of a very busy week’s agenda, especially the media coverage, lessons from e-discussions, a summary of the main recommendations and conclusions of the seminar, and abstracts of the presentations...