Substantial model variability exists regarding the likely meteorological impact of climate change on Kenya, particularly with respect to future precipitation levels.
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The number of people living in rural areas of low and middle-income countries is projected to increase in the coming decades. It is in the rural areas of these countries where a large majority of the world’s extreme poor reside.
There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity.
FAO’s The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report (FAO et al. 2020) emphasizes the gradually increasing trend of hunger, measured by the prevalence of undernourishment, since 2014.
Smart subsidies for sustainable soils: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in southern Malawi
Evidence on the effectiveness of a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program in Southern Malawi encouraging the adoption of soil conservation practices, specifically conservation agriculture
Smart subsidies for sustainable soils: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in southern Malawi
Conventional agricultural practices – especially conventional tillage – are a major driver of soil erosion globally.
Changing patterns in genebank acquisitions of crop genetic materials: An analysis of global policy drivers and potential consequences
During the past two decades, a series of global policy changes affecting genetic resource conservation, use, and exchange have entered into force: the 2004 International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), and mor
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In this second report of the FABLE Consortium, country teams present 20 national pathways towards sustainable land-use and food systems (Figure A).
Increasing demands for agricultural commodities are resulting in more intensely managed landscapes. This is at odds with biodiversity conservation and largely ignores farmland biodiversity’s supporting function for high and stable yields.
Rural areas are critical to the provision of ecosystem services.
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Agricultural productivity in Ethiopia’s highlands, the country’s breadbasket, is threatened by severe land degradation.
The sustainable land management program in the Ethiopian highlands: An evaluation of its impact on crop production
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The issues of food security and agricultural competitiveness are central to agricultural and food policy making in the 21st century.
Agriculture and the rural economy in Pakistan: Issues, outlooks, and policy priorities: Synopsis
While policy makers, media, and the international community focus their attention on Pakistan’s ongoing security challenges, the potential of the rural economy, and particularly the agricultural sector, to improve Pakistanis’ well-being is being n
Understanding irrigation system diversity in Nigeria
This study assesses the short-term effects of large irrigation dams on household consumption in the northern part of Nigeria.