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Adapting to climate change in the mixed crop and livestock farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa
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Adapting to climate change in the mixed crop and livestock farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa
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Thornton, Philip K.
Herrero, Mario T. |
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livestock
agriculture adaptation climate change adaptation climate food security |
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| Description |
Mixed crop–livestock systems are the backbone of African agriculture, providing food security and livelihood options for hundreds of millions of people. Much is known about the impacts of climate change on the crop enterprises in the mixed systems, and some, although less, on the livestock enterprises. The interactions between crops and livestock can be managed to contribute to environmentally sustainable intensification, diversification and risk management. There is relatively little information on how these interactions may be affected by changes in climate and climate variability. This is a serious gap, because these interactions may offer some buffering capacity to help smallholders adapt to climate change.
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2015-08-21
2015-08-27T08:20:08Z 2015-08-27T08:20:08Z |
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Journal Article
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Thornton PK, Herrero M. 2015. Adapting to climate change in the mixed crop and livestock farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Nature Climate Change 5:830–836.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68034 https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2754 |
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en
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Limited Access
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Nature Climate Change
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