Extreme Weather Impacts from the International Hub Region
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South Africa Committed to Climate Change Interventions in the Agricultural Sector
South Africa committed to climate change intervention in its agricultural sector by introducing the Agriculture, Food Systems and Food Security Flagship Program.
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Climate Change, Global Food Security, and U.S. Food System Assessment
The result of a three-year effort led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this study brought together over thirty experts at nineteen institutions in four countries. The authors drew on…
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Adapting Philippine Agriculture to Climate Change
At least 1.25 million poor farmers and 5 million indirect beneficiaries will benefit from Adapting Philippine Agriculture to Climate Change (APA), a $39.3-million project approved to foster climate-…
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The Impact of Investment on Irrigated Rice, Dryland Agriculture and Afforestation in Senegal using SAR and Optical Time-Series Imagery in Data Fusion Approaches
The West African Sahel and Sudanian region is an epicenter of land cover change hotspots which have not been sufficiently documented, due to the inability of multi-temporal moderate resolution…
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Breeding drought-tolerant pearl millet using conventional and genomics approaches: Achievements and prospects
Reviewed and discoursed the advancements in conventional breeding, progress in genomic resources development and application, high-throughput phenotyping, and the strategic use of genetic resources…
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Climate Change Reduces the Abundance and Diversity of Wild Bees
Wild bees are more affected by climate change than by disturbances to their habitats. The findings suggest that addressing land-use issues alone will not be sufficient to protect these important…
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Strengthening Climate Change Collaboration in Ethiopia
In collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Forest Service works with Ethiopia government to provide climate change policy and technical support and promote…
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Global Agricultural and Disaster Assessment System
GADAS has more than 1,000 data layers including environmental, satellite imagery, disaster, and associated data sets that can be interactively visualized or downloaded as charts or maps.
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Farming the Floodplain: Trade-offs and Opportunities
Climate change will alter rainfall patterns in New England in the coming decades. Storms will likely become more intense, increasing the frequency of flooding. Many Farms in this area tend to be…