Highlights•Modeling shows agroforestry's promising ability to buffer crops from climate
extremes.•Agroforestry can increase adaptive capacity, and help cope with risk or …

Increasing pressure for food security and sustainability as well as a need to halt
environmental degradation has focused attention on increasing the efficient use of farm …

Agricultural technologies have long been promoted by governments and development
organizations as effective ways to increase farm productivity and reduce poverty. However …

Executive Summary The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use1 (AFOLU) sector
encompasses managed ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while …

Regional impoverishment is an external manifestation of unbalanced human-land
relationship in specific areas. The important role of the full utilization of land resources in …

Despite the great potential of agricultural innovations, the uptake by smallholder farmers in
sub-Saharan Africa seems to be slow. We reviewed existing theories and frameworks for the …

This study identifies the major methods used by farmers to adapt to climate change in the
Nile Basin of Ethiopia, the factors that affect their choice of method, and the barriers to …

Agroforestry (AF) has become an important strategy in reconciling the contradictory
requirements of environmental protection and economic development in ecologically fragile …

Background: The global focus on improved cookstoves (ICSs) and clean fuels has increased
because of their potential for delivering triple dividends: household health, local …

The successful diffusion of rooftop solar photovoltaics (SPV) in residential sector depends
on the decisions of bounded rational households to accept this technology. Such …