To enhance understanding of the process of climate change adaptation and to facilitate the
planning and implementation of socially‐just adaptation strategies, deeper consideration of …

Food insecurity is an intractable problem in South Africa. The country has a tradition of
evidence-based decision making, grounded in the findings of national surveys. However …

Human security will be progressively threatened as the climate changes (robust evidence,
high agreement). Human insecurity almost never has single causes, but instead emerges …

Abstract Scope, Delineations, and Definitions: Livelihoods, Poverty, and Inequality
Understanding the impacts of climate change on livelihoods and poverty requires examining …

The objective of this paper is to better understand the various individual and household
factors that influence resilience, that is, people⬢ s ability to respond adequately to shocks …

Crop models are used for an increasingly broad range of applications, with a commensurate
proliferation of methods. Careful framing of research questions and development of targeted …

This paper documents the manner in which smallholder farmers in Gladstone, a rural village
near the town of Thaba Nchu in the Free State Province of central South Africa, perceive and …

Over 40% of the earth's land surface are drylands that are home to approximately 2.5 billion
people. Livelihood sustainability in drylands is threatened by a complex and interrelated …

Semi-arid regions across Africa and Asia are characterized by rapidly changing biophysical
regimes, structural vulnerabilities, and increasing livelihood precarity. Gender, class, and …

Adaptation research and practice too often overlooks the wider social context within which
climate change is experienced. Mainstream approaches frame adaptation problems in terms …