Two for the Price of One: Training Crop Pest Modelers While Building New Maps
To improve our collective capacity to model and measure the economic costs of pests, weeds and diseases of the major food crops of the world, CSIRO and HarvestChoice-UMN are delivering a series of ecological modeling workshops.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publication Date:
September, 2011
Series:
IFPRI Discussion Paper 01126
Pages:
88
Publication Place:
Washington, DC
Abstract
Empirical evidence has shown that farmers can adapt to climate change by using sustainable land and water management (SLWM) practices that provide local mitigation benefits, reducing or offsetting the negative effects of climate change at the level of the plot, farm, or even landscape. However, adaptation to climate change using SLWM practices in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains low. This study was conducted to examine the impact of government policies on adaptation to climate change.
