Adapting African Agriculture to Climate Change Transforming Rural Li
This book summarizes the evidence from different African countries about the local impacts of climate change, and how farmers are coping with current climate risks. The different contributors show how agricultural systems in developing countries are
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Walter Leal Filho Anthony O. Esilaba Karuturi P.C. Rao Gummadi Sridhar Editors
Adapting African Agriculture to Climate Change Transforming Rural Livelihoods
Climate Change Management Series editor Walter Leal Filho, Hamburg, Germany
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8740
Walter Leal Filho Anthony O. Esilaba Karuturi P.C. Rao Gummadi Sridhar •
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Adapting African Agriculture to Climate Change Transforming Rural Livelihoods The contribution of land and water management to enhanced food security and climate change adaptation and mitigation in the African continent
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Editors Walter Leal Filho Faculty of Life Sciences Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Hamburg Germany Anthony O. Esilaba Kenya Agricultural Research Institute Nairobi Kenya
ISSN 1610-2010 Climate Change Management ISBN 978-3-319-12999-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13000-2
Karuturi P.C. Rao International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics Addis Ababa Ethiopia Gummadi Sridhar International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics Addis Ababa Ethiopia
ISSN 1610-2002 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-13000-2
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Preface
Africa is one of the continents mostly severely affected by climate change, for two main reasons. The first reason is because the geographical characteristics of the African continent make it highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, especially from the projected changes in the rainy seasons and intensitivity of droughts, which in turn may affect agriculture and other human activities. The second reason for high vulnerability of African countries is related to their limited capacity to a
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