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Climate Change
Relationship between poverty and climate: Does climate variability drive rural poverty in Zimbabwe?
ZimbabweCarren Pindiriri, Jeffrey Alwang, Dhiraj Sharma, F...

Zimbabwe has set poverty reduction targets in a changing climate, yet the implications of climate variability for poverty remain under-explored. Utilising household datasets to explore the association between poverty, cereal productivity and climate...

Climate Change
Working Paper 387 - Climate Change Risks and Coping Strategies in Mozambique: The Role of Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
MozambiqueSeedwell Hove, Lacina Balma and Anthony Simpasa

Mozambique is highly exposed to recurring natural disaster shocks, including floods, storms, and drought. In addition to their impact on economic growth and loss of lives and livelihoods, natural disasters, especially floods,...

Climate Change
Agrifood Exports and Climate Change: A guide for business support organizations
All CountriesICT

Climate change creates risks for agrifood exporters as extreme weather events and rising temperatures disrupt supply chains and reduce productivity. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises also face risks from new policies, regulations and tech...

Climate Change
Africa Youth Common Position on Agriculture, Policy and Climate
All CountriesAGRA

Agriculture is key to Africa's economic growth and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The vision for sustainable food systems in Africa includes achieving resilience to climate shocks, increasing agricultural productivit...

Climate Change
National Climate Policy Integration and Institutional Implementation Capacity
NigeriaAGRA

Climate change, directly and indirectly, impacts food systems, food trade, food and nutrition security, and the attainment of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, such as achieving zero hunger, ending poverty, ensuring healthy lives, and...

Climate Change
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Agri-Food Systems: A Compendium of Analytic Tools for Practitioners
All CountriesGIZ

Agricultural development projects often emphasize the need for climate change adaptation and mitigation in production. Yet upstream and downstream functions of agricultural value chains bear a similar importance for the resilience of the agricultural...

Climate Change
How does climate-smart aquaculture affect fish productivity among smallholder farmers in Kakamega County, Kenya? A multinomial endogenous switching regression
KenyaBoke Christopher Magesi, Hillary Bett & Augustus M...

Climate change and its pronounced effects have greatly disfranchised the livelihoods of aquafarmers. To leverage these negative effects of climate change, climate-smart aquaculture (CSA) practices have been developed for adoption by farmers. However,...

Climate Change
Climate variability effect on the yield of arable crops in South-East Nigeria and role of Extension workers in ameliorating the effect
NigeriaN.O. Ogbonna B.O. Ovwigho M.O. Olaolu A.F. Urhibo

The study investigated the effects of climate variability on yield of maize, yam, and cassava in South east Nigeria and the role of agricultural extension on climate variability mitigation and adaptation measures Secondary and primary data were used....

Climate Change
Modeling of raining season onset and cessation of tropical rainfall for climate change adaptation in Agriculture
All CountriesI. A. Fuwape & S. T. Ogunjo

This study investigates the trend in Rainfall Onset Dates (ROD), Rainfall Cessation Dates (RCD), Length of Growing Seasons (LGS) and Rainfall Amount at Onset of Rainfall (RAO) using linear regression, Mann-Kendall, Sen Slope and Hurst Exponent for fo...

Climate Change
WFP’s Updated Climate Change Policy - 2024
All CountriesWFP

This Climate Change policy updates the 2017 version, aiming to guide the organization’s response to a worsening climate crisis. It focuses on WFP’s climate-specific and climate-relevant action in the context of chronic and acute food insecurity, with...

Climate Change
Farming under fire: The interplay of armed conflict and climate-induced weather disruptions in agricultural input use
EthiopiaAyalew, Hailemariam; Berhane, Guush; Wondale, Mese...

This study investigates the compounded effects of armed conflicts and climate-induced disruptions on agricultural input use in Ethiopia, a country experiencing significant fragility due to both factors.

Climate Change
Sustainable Asset Valuation of Climate-Resilient Landscapes in Ghana
GhanaIISD

n this integrated cost-benefit analysis, the Nature-Based Infrastructure Global Resource Centre analyzes the potential of nature-based infrastructure (NBI) to mitigate the impact of extreme weather events under different climate scenarios in Ghana.