Evidence of crop production losses in West Africa due to historical global warming in two crop models

B Sultan, D Defrance, T Iizumi - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Achieving food security goals in West Africa will depend on the capacity of the agricultural
sector to feed the rapidly growing population and to moderate the adverse impacts of climate …

Climatic risks and impacts in South Asia: extremes of water scarcity and excess

K Vinke, MA Martin, S Adams, F Baarsch… - Regional Environmental …, 2017 - Springer
This paper reviews the current knowledge of climatic risks and impacts in South Asia
associated with anthropogenic warming levels of 1.5–4° C above pre-industrial values in the …

Investment needs to achieve the sustainable development goals

G Schmidt-Traub, A Shah - Paris and New York: Sustainable Development …, 2015 - JSTOR
In September 2015, governments adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to
be achieved by 2030 in order to guide international cooperation in pursuit of ambitious …

Can farmers' adaptation to climate change be explained by socio-economic household-level variables?

TB Below, KD Mutabazi, D Kirschke, C Franke… - Global environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
A better understanding of processes that shape farmers' adaptation to climate change is
critical to identify vulnerable entities and to develop well-targeted adaptation policies …

The global supply and demand for agricultural land in 2050: a perfect storm in the making?

TW Hertel - American journal of agricultural Economics, 2011 - JSTOR
Over the past three years, there has been a convergence of interest in the global farm and
food system and its contributions to feeding the world's population as well as to ensuring the …

Impact of climate change on wheat productivity in Central Asia

R Sommer, M Glazirina, T Yuldashev, A Otarov… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2013 - Elsevier
Climate change (CC) may pose a challenge to agriculture and rural livelihoods in Central
Asia, but in-depth studies are lacking. To address the issue, crop growth and yield of 14 …

Impacts of climate change on groundwater level and irrigation cost in a groundwater dependent irrigated region

GSA Salem, S Kazama, S Shahid, NC Dey - Agricultural water management, 2018 - Elsevier
The objective of the present study was to assess the impacts of climate change on irrigation
cost in a groundwater dependent irrigated region in northwest Bangladesh. An ensemble of …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of adaptive capacity and adaptation to climate change in the farming households of Eastern Himalayan foothills of West Bengal, India

P Datta, B Behera - Environmental Challenges, 2022 - Elsevier
The Indian agricultural sector is highly vulnerable to climate change. Hence, the adoption of
appropriate adaptation measures by the farmers is crucial for reducing the adverse effects …

Vulnerability of communities to climate change: Application of the livelihood vulnerability index to an environmentally sensitive region of China

Q Zhang, X Zhao, H Tang - Climate and Development, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the livelihood vulnerability of a variety of rural households by
calculating the livelihood vulnerability index (LVI) with reference to the IPCC vulnerability …

The challenges of sustainably feeding a growing planet

TW Hertel - Food Security, 2015 - Springer
Feeding the world's population while ensuring environmental sustainability is one of the
world's 'grand challenges'. While population and income will remain the most important …