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Moving to national scale

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Can restoration of the commons foster resilience? A quasi-experimental comparison of COVID-19 coping strategies among rural households in three Indian states

India has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the context of a larger quasi-experimental impact assessment, we assess the pandemic’s effects on coping behavior in 80 villages spread across four districts and three states (n=772).

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The changing nature of hydroclimatic risks across South Africa

We present results from large ensembles of projected twenty-first century changes in seasonal precipitation and near-surface air temperature for the nation of South Africa.

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Income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand

Projecting future demand for livestock-derived foods depends on interactions between income, prices, and the income elasticity of that demand.

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From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks

Since Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability, an

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Modeling the potential impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies on groundnut production in India

Groundnut is one of the significant sources of oil, food, and fodder in India. It is grown in marginal arid and semi-arid agro-ecosystems with wide yield fluctuations due to spatial variability of rainfall and soil.

Sub-Saharan Africa has long been beset with food insecurity. Investment in small-scale irrigation may provide a solution to address the challenge by extending crop production into the dry season.

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Climate change and agricultural development

Climate change will be a major driver of change in the agricultural sector in the coming decades, along with changes in population, income, urbanization, dietary preferences, and technology.1 Agriculture is unique among economic sectors in its dep

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Climate change effects on agriculture and food security in Tajikistan

Climate change is one of the main challenges for Tajikistan’s agricultural development and food security both in the medium and longer term.