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Adapting to climate change in the mixed crop and livestock farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa [1]

Mixed crop–livestock systems are the backbone of African agriculture, providing food security and livelihood options for hundreds of millions of people. Much is known about the impacts of climate change on the crop enterprises in the mixed systems, and some, although less, on the livestock enterprises. The interactions between crops and livestock can be managed to contribute to environmentally sustainable intensification, diversification and risk management. There is relatively little information on how these interactions may be affected by changes in climate and climate variability.

Publication Date: 
21/08/2015
Philip K. Thornton [2], Mario Herrero [3]
Nature Climate Change [4]
5
830–836
Tags:
Climate Change [5], Livestock [6], Climate Adaptation [7], Agriculture [8], Africa [9], Poverty [10], Food Security [11]
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
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