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Sesame Uganda: Climate change risks and opportunities

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Title Sesame Uganda: Climate change risks and opportunities
 
Creator Demissie, Teferi
Duku, Confidence
Groot, Annemarie
Oroma, George
Osumba, Joab J.L.
Budding-Polo, Monserrat
Lyimo, Raymond
Schonenberg, Pierre
 
Subject climate change
agriculture
food security
 
Description Uganda’s agricultural sector is an important catalyst for economic growth, poverty alleviation, and food security. Nevertheless, the economic losses from the impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector by 2050 are estimated to be about US$1.5 billion (Zinyengere et al., 2016). Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices present an opportunity to reduce such losses, build resilience in the agriculture sector, improve productivity and farmer incomes, and contribute to climate change mitigation (CIAT & World Bank, 2017). In 2010, Uganda was the fifth largest producer of sesame globally, and production peaked at about 216,000 mega tonnes in 2012 (FAOSTAT, 2018). The average yield of sesame is about 700 kilograms per hectare (FAOSTAT, 2018).
 
Date 2019-08-20
2019-08-20T14:04:07Z
2019-08-20T14:04:07Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Demissie T, Duku C, Groot A, Oroma G, Osumba J, Budding-Polo M, Lyimo R, Schonenberg P. 2019. Sesame Uganda: Climate change risks and opportunities. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS); Wageningen Environmental Research, The Netherlands.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103238
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Language en
 
Rights Other
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