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Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty
Recurso clave 14/6/2013 How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become more... -
The bestselling author ofDeep Economyshows that we’re living on a fundamentally altered planet — and opens our eyes to the kind of change we’ll need in order to make our civilization endure. Twenty years ago, withThe End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global...
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This paper underscores how measures to increase climate change resilience must view food, energy, water and waste management systems as interconnected and mutually dependent. This holistic approach must also be applied to economic analysis for adaptation planning. Similiarly; it is vital to use...
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Proceedings of a symposium held in Anaheim, CA, Dec. 1988. A detailed review of the current research. Several international agronomists assess the current status of scientific knowledge about the existing role of greenhouse gases in global climate change and report their findings.
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20/10/2018 Abstract/Description Like many smallholder farmers in Africa, the farming families of southern Ethiopia are facing three major challenges: the need to intensify and diversify their farm production, on very small areas, in a context of high population growth. In these rural areas, given the...
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Abstract, Sustainable Agriculture Research, 2018 This paper assesses the climate smart agricultural practices triggered by learning videos on integrated striga management, soil fertility and cost-benefit evaluation practices. Using household head interviews and focus group discussions, this study...
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2/10/2019 Climate smart agriculture provides new opportunities for addressing the need for local adaptation, livelihoods, agro biodiversity conservation, and better nutrition.Climate smart villages provide platforms for ensuring that various interventions converge where it matters the most: local levels....
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16/10/2020 Cómo pueden los pequeños productores contribuir a mitigar el cambio climático? Un artículo en EDN 148 describió los principios sobre los cuales se basan las estrategias presentadas en este artículo de seguimiento. La clave de toda estrategia agrícola para hacer frente al cambio climático es el...
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Recurso clave17/7/2020 ECHO reconoce que el cambio climático es una profunda realidad que los pequeños productores enfrentan. Muchas de nuestras publicaciones se han centrado en ayudar a los productores a hacer frente a los desafíos conexos, como el calor y la sequía. Aumentar la resiliencia de los productores y...
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20/1/2008 THE threat of global climate change has caused concern among scientists as crop growth could be severely affected by changes in key climatic variables (i.e., rainfall and temperature) and agricultural production and food security could be affected both globally and locally. Although the effects...