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Julian Ramirez-Villegas
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Decision support tools for agricultural adaptation in Africa
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Open AccessPriority areas for investment in more sustainable and climate-resilient livestock systems
Livestock production supports economic growth, jobs and nutrition, but contributes to and is vulnerable to climate change. A transition is thus needed for livestock systems to become more sustainable and clima...
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Open AccessState of ex situ conservation of landrace groups of 25 major crops
Crop landraces have unique local agroecological and societal functions and offer important genetic resources for plant breeding. Recognition of the value of landrace diversity and concern about its erosion on ...
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Open AccessHigh-resolution and bias-corrected CMIP5 projections for climate change impact assessments
Projections of climate change are available at coarse scales (70–400 km). But agricultural and species models typically require finer scale climate data to model climate change impacts. Here, we present a glob...
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Future Climate Projections in Africa: Where Are We Headed?
This paper offers an overview of how climate change is already affecting farmers across eastern and southern Africa, and how it will continue to affect them in the future. The rising temperatures and increased...
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Open AccessReduction in nutritional quality and growing area suitability of common bean under climate change induced drought stress in Africa
Climate change impacts on food security will involve negative impacts on crop yields, and potentially on the nutritional quality of staple crops. Common bean is the most important grain legume staple crop for ...
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Open AccessClimate change adaptation of coffee production in space and time
Coffee is grown in more than 60 tropical countries on over 11 million ha by an estimated 25 million farmers, most of whom are smallholders. Several regional studies demonstrate the climate sensitivity of coffee (
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Towards a genotypic adaptation strategy for Indian groundnut cultivation using an ensemble of crop simulations
Climate change has been projected to significantly affect agricultural productivity and hence food availability in the coming decades. The uncertainty associated with projecting climate change impacts is a bar...
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Timescales of transformational climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan African agriculture
Climate change may necessitate transformative adaptation of agricultural systems. Research now indicates when and where the cultivation of key crops in sub-Saharan African will become unviable.
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Global conservation priorities for crop wild relatives
The wild relatives of domesticated crops possess genetic diversity useful for develo** more productive, nutritious and resilient crop varieties. However, their conservation status and availability for utiliz...
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Reconciling approaches to climate change adaptation for Colombian agriculture
The projected impact of climate change on agro-ecological systems is considered widespread and significant, particularly across the global tropics. As in many other countries, adaptation to climate change is l...
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A way forward on adaptation to climate change in Colombian agriculture: perspectives towards 2050
Policy measures regarding adaptation to climate change include efforts to adjust socio-economic and ecologic systems. Colombia has undertaken various measures in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptati...
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Is Cassava the Answer to African Climate Change Adaptation?
This paper examines the impacts of climate change on cassava production in Africa, and questions whether cassava can play an important role in climate change adaptation. First, we examine the impacts that clim...
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Towards a climate change adaptation strategy for coffee communities and ecosystems in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico
The mountain chain of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in southern Mexico is globally significant for its biodiversity and is one of the most important coffee production areas of Mexico. It provides water for sever...
