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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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[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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[Tanzania] National Sample Census of Agriculture 2002/2003: Small Holder Agriculture, Volume II: Crop Sector - National Report

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At the end of the 2002/03 Agriculture Year, the National Bureau of Statistics and the Office of the Chief Government Statistician in Zanzibar ... conducted the Agriculture Sample Census for 2002/2003. This is the third Agriculture Census to he carried out in Tanzania...

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