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Impacts of climate change on rainfed agriculture and adaptation strategies to improve livelihoods

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Title Impacts of climate change on rainfed agriculture and adaptation strategies to improve livelihoods
 
Creator Craufurd, P Q
Jagadish, S V K
Padgham, J
 
Subject Watershed management
 
Description Farmers living and working in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) of Africa and Asia are
acutely vulnerable to climate variability and change due to their limited natural and
financial resources coupled with poor infrastructure, institutional support, and gover-
nance (World Bank 2008). Coping with variability is nonetheless a way of life for many
of these farmers, and farmers in many different regions of the world have adopted or
adapted strategies to manage variability. In this chapter we first describe the impacts
of climate change on crop and livestock production, water resources, and prices,
poverty, and malnutrition in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Secondly,
we examine adaptation strategies, focusing on the social/institutional aspects needed
to support farmers’ adaptation strategies as well as describing briefly strategies used
by farmers.
 
Publisher CRC Press(Taylor & Francis)
 
Date 2011
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3574/1/Chapter_13.pdf
Craufurd, P Q and Jagadish, S V K and Padgham, J (2011) Impacts of climate change on rainfed agriculture and adaptation strategies to improve livelihoods. In: Integrated Watershed Management in Rainfed Agriculture. CRC Press(Taylor & Francis), Londn, UK, pp. 421-440. ISBN 978-0-415-88277-4