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How weather variability and extreme shocks affect women's participation in African agriculture
Agriculture is strongly affected by environmental factors, including variability in temperature and precipitation, which in turn shape the livelihoods farmers derive.
journal article
Linkages between GRACE water storage, hydrologic extremes, and climate teleconnections in major African aquifers
Water resources management is a critical issue in Africa where many regions are subjected to sequential droughts and floods.
Explores key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change
Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World is the first comprehensive exploration of key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change.
book chapter
Agricultural development in a changing world
The world has been changing rapidly, and major issues surrounding agriculture have evolved as well. In fact, over the last several decades major shifts have occurred in the thinking on and practice of agricultural development.
journal article
Vegetation changes attributable to refugees in Africa coincide with agricultural deforestation
The recent adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees formally recognizes not only the importance of supporting the nearly 26 million people who have sought asylum from conflict and persecution but also of easing the pressures on receiving areas a
This note presents the results of an evaluation of public investment options for Egypt’s agri-food system.
The Nile is the lifeblood of northeastern Africa, and its roles for and interdependency with the national economies it traverses and binds together grow as it moves from source to sea.
We use an innovative methodology to model the socio-economic linkages between water, energy, and food in the East Nile Basin.
2016 saw important developments with potentially wide repercussions for food security and nutrition in individual countries and regions.
journal article
Harnessing the Sun and Wind for Economic Development?
Four case studies: Somalia, Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen
Alors qu’il ne reste plus qu’une ann
The 2014 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report—the ninth in an annual series—presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger.
Der Welthunger-Index (WHI) 2014 stellt die nationale, regionale und weltweite Hungersituation zum neunten Mal in jahrlicher Folge multidimensional dar.