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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2014

    The debate around the role that agriculture should play in mitigating climate change and sequestering greenhouse gases is politically complex and technically complicated. In many countries, and particularly in developing countries with a large smallholder population, the agricultural sector faces competing priorities, such as national food security goals, poverty alleviation, addressing natural resource degradation and adapting to the already visible effects of climate change.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2013
    Kenya, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This report contains information on a field assessment of risks associated with climate variability in eastern Kenya. It also includes the compilations of climate related agricultural risks gathered from a Kamba radio dialogue with local communities of Eastern Kenya, aired from January to April 2012. It highlights the significant potential in the region for mitigating climate change through improved management of agricultural land and crop and livestock husbandry practices, as well as on tapping into the wide range of traditional knowledge of the local communities.

  3. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 2015

    Agriculture remains vital to the economy of most African countries and its development

    has significant implications for food security and poverty reduction in the region. Increase

    in agricultural production over the past decades has mainly been due to land area expansion,

    with very little change in production techniques and limited improvement in yields.

    Currently one in four people remains malnourished in Africa. CSA integrates all three dimensions of sustainable development and is aimed at (1)

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2016
    Burkina Faso, Mali, Africa, Western Africa

    The livestock sector is one of the major contributors in agriculture, by some estimates

    contributing up to 18% of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Of this, about one

    third is reported to be due to land use change associated with livestock production, another

    one third is nitrous oxide from manure and slurry management, and roughly 25% is attributed

    to methane emissions from ruminant digestion. Recent analysis suggests that developing

    world regions contribute about two thirds of the global emissions from ruminants, with sub-

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2015
    Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa

    Smallholder farmers in Uganda face a wide range of agricultural production risks, with climate change and variability presenting new risks and vulnerabilities. Climate related risks such as prolonged dry seasons have become more frequent and intense with negative impacts on agricultural livelihoods and food security.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa

    National governments across East Africa are in the process of formulating and implementing adaptation and mitigation strategies to assist farmers cope with climate change. These include formulating actions, frameworks and programs to address climate change and embedding these within the long-term national development plans.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2015

    This Working Paper summarizes projected climate change impacts on livestock across
    Africa, using a combination of literature review and some new results on the projected
    impacts of climate change on the rangelands of Africa. Findings show that there are
    many options that can help livestock keepers adapt, but there appear to be no options
    that are widely applicable which do not have constraints to their adoption. An
    enabling technical and policy environment will thus be needed to ensure livestock

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2009

    Agriculture – on which we all depend for our food – is under threat from climate change. There is no doubt that systems worldwide will have to adapt, but while consumers may barely notice in developed countries, millions of people in developing countries face a very real and direct threat to their food security and livelihoods. Even without climate change, many agricultural systems in developing countries are nearing crisis point. Feeding a rapidly rising global population is taking a heavy toll on farmlands, rangelands, fisheries and forests. Water is becoming scarce in many regions.

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