Climate change and eastern Africa: a review of impact on major crops

U Adhikari, AP Nejadhashemi… - Food and energy …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming has become one of the major challenges in maintaining global food
security. This paper reviews the impacts of climate change on fourteen strategic crops for …

[HTML][HTML] Prospects of orphan crops in climate change

T Mabhaudhi, VGP Chimonyo, S Hlahla, F Massawe… - Planta, 2019 - Springer
Main conclusion Orphan crops can contribute to building resilience of marginal cropping
systems as a climate chnage adaptation strategy. Orphan crops play an important role in …

Drought tolerance and water use of cereal crops: A focus on sorghum as a food security crop in sub‐Saharan Africa

ST Hadebe, AT Modi… - Journal of Agronomy and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) faces twin challenges of water stress and food insecurity–
challenges that are already pressing and are projected to grow. Sub‐Saharan Africa …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change, land, water, and food security: Perspectives From Sub-Saharan Africa

SA Ofori, SJ Cobbina, S Obiri - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The current and projected warming of the earth is unequivocal with humans playing a strong
role as both perpetrators and victims. The warming on the African continent is projected to …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the farmers' choices and adoption of adaptation strategies, and plans to climate change impact in Africa: A systematic review

BA Magesa, G Mohan, H Matsuda, I Melts, M Kefi… - Climate Services, 2023 - Elsevier
The study evaluates the farmers' choices and adoption of adaptation measures and plans by
smallholder farmers to reduce the effects of climate change on their farming activities. We …

Climate change perception and its impact on net farm income of smallholder rice farmers in South-West, Nigeria

TO Ojo, LJS Baiyegunhi - Journal of cleaner production, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change such as extreme weather, unexpected temperature and rainfall fluctuations
cause several significant risks to the agro-economy. This study, therefore, assessed the …

Is the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis a sound basis for environmental policy in Africa?

B Lin, OE Omoju, NM Nwakeze, JU Okonkwo… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2016 - Elsevier
Achieving economic development and environmental sustainability simultaneously is one of
the most important development challenges for Africa today. The relationship between …

Nanofertilisers, nanopesticides, nanosensors of pest and nanotoxicity in agriculture

A Dubey, DR Mailapalli - Sustainable Agriculture Reviews: Volume 19, 2016 - Springer
Food security in the world is challenging due to the limited available resources for the rising
population. Various efforts are being practiced by governments, organisations and …

[HTML][HTML] Greenhouse gasses emission and economic growth nexus of sub-Saharan Africa

W Adzawla, M Sawaneh, AM Yusuf - Scientific African, 2019 - Elsevier
Notwithstanding the lesser contribution to global warming, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
remained one of the most vulnerable to climate change due to low economic development …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptation to climate change: The impacts of optimized planting dates on attainable maize yields under rainfed conditions in Burkina Faso

M Waongo, P Laux, H Kunstmann - Agricultural and forest meteorology, 2015 - Elsevier
The high intra-seasonal rainfall variability and the lack of adaptive capacities are the major
limiting factors for rainfed agricultural production in smallholder farming systems across Sub …