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Re-designing smallholder farming futures for reduced vulnerability to climate change in semi-arid southern Africa

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Title Re-designing smallholder farming futures for reduced vulnerability to climate change in semi-arid southern Africa
 
Creator Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine
 
Contributor Descheemaeker, Katrien
Masikati, Patricia
Gama, Arthur Chibwana
Crespo, Olivier
Claessens, Lieven
Valdivia, Roberto O.
 
Subject semi-arid
 
Description Climate change will impact the productivity of maize-based crop-livestock systems and the food security of smallholders depending on them in semi-arid southern Africa. Earlier results from testing climate change adaptation options showed that incremental improvements in fertilizer application rates, use of adapted maize cultivars or introduction of forage production are insufficient for substantial improvement of smallholder livelihoods (Masikati et al., 2015). In this paper we therefore explored effects of more transformative system re-design on households’ vulnerability to climate change, farm net returns and poverty rates. We tested the hypothesis that packages tailored to specific farm situations are more effective than blanket recommendations.
 
Date 2016-02-15T13:44:55Z
2016-02-15T13:44:55Z
 
Type Conference Paper
 
Identifier http://fsd5.european-agronomy.org/
https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/3c6lElfK
Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, Katrien Descheemaeker, Patricia Masikati, Arthur Chibwana Gama, Olivier Crespo, Lieven Claessens, Roberto O. Valdivia. (10/9/2015). Re-designing smallholder farming futures for reduced vulnerability to climate change in semi-arid southern Africa. Montpelier, France.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4470
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher Farming System Design (FDS)
 
Source 5th International Symposium for Farming Systems Design;