[PDF] Top 20 Assessing the vulnerability of food crop systems in Africa to climate change

... Paper: Challinor, AJ, Wheeler, TR, Garforth, C, Craufurd, P and Kassam, A 2007 Assessing the vulnerability of food crop systems in Africa to climate change.. White Rose Research Online e[r] ... See full document

... social vulnerability analysis being the synthesis by Boruff et ...social vulnerability index (SoVI) uses ‘‘initially 42 socio-economic variables, reduced to 11 statistically independent fac- tors’’ ... See full document

... social vulnerability analysis being the synthesis by Boruff et ...social vulnerability index (SoVI) uses ‘‘initially 42 socio-economic variables, reduced to 11 statistically independent fac- tors’’ ... See full document

... of Africa is arid and in general the soils are poor - yet many areas of Africa clearly do have enormous agricultural ...important crop is remarkably similar to the vast Miombo woodland belt that runs ... See full document

... perennial crop, with a 2-4 year productive life span, farmers harvest cassava year round, over a period of years, in small quantities, mainly for household ...maize crop fails and downwards when the maize ... See full document

... that climate change is an inevitable process in many parts of the world and has a negative impact on agriculture and food systems particularly in Sub-Saharan African ...countries. ... See full document

... between climate change and high variability in the yield patterns of maize over the years in Hai ...in crop development rates, due to increases in water stress and canopy respiration with warmer ... See full document

... of climate change are more likely to seriously compromise the vulnerability of urban resident since the viability and productivity of existing food pro- duction systems in many parts of ... See full document

... of food systems can be ...to climate volatility, such as the now widespread use of smallholder crop insurance schemes in India and certain other countries; and establishing safety net ... See full document

... as crop drought sensitivity, pest resistance, or low nutritional ...global climate change - a technical point of view is applied in most cases (Abramovitz et ... See full document

... IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... See full document

... and Vulnerability in Europe) project, assessing the risk posed by future climatic change to various hydrological and hydraulic systems were obtained from the regional climate model ... See full document

... On the basis of the current status (and planning to 2020) of farmland area, crops (rice, sugarcane, wheat, sweet potatoes, corn, vegetables, etc.), and the corresponding V index, it could be recognized some communes of ... See full document

... interchangeably with terms like open spaces (Mensah, 2014). The latter refers to networks of natural, semi-natural and artificial ecological systems within a given area (Tzoulas et al., 2007). In this paper, the ... See full document

... the climate of the world, which should be in the cooling period nowadays, is not a cold turn; on the contrary, it shows that it has entered a hot round to the extent of ...on Climate Change (IPCC), ... See full document

... in crop areas in the eastern part of West Africa which would result in a com- plete depletion of forest and grassland in future ...West Africa would also experi- ence noticeable expansion of ... See full document

... the food system, as a socio-ecological system, is also a complex adaptive system ...adaptive systems include: non-linearity, sensitivity to initial conditions, self-organisation and ...social systems ... See full document

... dimensional vulnerability in Tanzania in a holistic and spatially explicit manner, using estimates of entomologi- cal inoculation rate (EIR) ...and vulnerability maps that allow prioritisation of areas for ... See full document

... of the total area. Tanzania has been endowed with diverse natural resource among others are arable land ~44 million hectares, rivers, lakes and forest that are potentials for agriculture [36,39]. In terms of ... See full document

... with climate change and its potential impact on different sectors in a holistic ...pography, climate and socioeconomic conditions, is di- vided into 15 agro-ecological ...on climate ... See full document