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Climate Risk Management Through Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

Authored by:
Nkonya, Ephraim; Place, Frank; Pender, John; Mwanjololo, Majaliwa; Okhimamhe, Appollonia; Kato, Edward; Crespo, Susana; Ndjeunga, Jupiter; Traore, Sibiry
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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), September, 2011, IFPRI Discussion Paper 01126, 88 pages.
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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.

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Simultaneous Diffusion of Herbicide Resistant Cotton and Conservation Tillage

Authored by:
Frisvold, George B.; Boor, Abigail; Reeves, Jeanne M.
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AgBioForum, 2009, Volume 12, Issue 3 & 4,
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This study used state-level data from 1997-2002 to econometrically estimate factors explaining the diffusion of two technologies by US cotton producers: herbicide-resistant (HR) cotton seed varieties and conservation tillage.

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Adoption of Conservation-Tillage Practices and Herbicide-Resistant Seed in Cotton Production

Authored by:
Banerjee, Swagata (Ban); Martin, Steven W,; Roberts, Roland K.; Larson, James A.; Hogan, Robert J. Jr.; Johnson, Jason L.; Paxton, Kenneth W.; Reeves, Jeanne M.
Publisher:
AgBioForum, 2009, Volume 12, Issue 3 & 4,
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Agricultural Resource Management Survey data for 2003 were used to estimate logit models for adoption of conservation-tillage practices and herbicide-resistant/stacked-gene cottonseed in the United States.

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[Ethiopia] Agricultural Sample Survey 2007/2008 (2000 E.C.) (September - December, 2007) Volume 4, Report on Land Utilization (Private Peasant Holdings, Meher Season)

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This report comprises three parts. Part I contains the objectives of the annual survey.
Part II deals with coverage of the survey, sample design, field organization and
method of data collection and Part III includes summary of the results.

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Drivers of Change in Global Agriculture

Authored by:
Hazell, Peter; Wood, Stanley
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences), February, 2008, Volume 363, Issue 1491, 495-515.
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As a result of agricultural intensification, more food is produced today than needed to feed the entire world population and at prices that have never been so low.

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