A5002355413- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Forest Management and Policy
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Water resources management and optimization
- Social Capital and Networks
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
University of California, Berkeley
1997-2023
Cornell University
2020-2022
International Fund for Agricultural Development
2022
Center for Global Development
2021-2022
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2009-2021
New York State College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
2020
EP Analytics (United States)
2015
United Nations
2009-2012
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
2006
The ‘sustainable intensification’ (SI) approach and ‘climate-smart agriculture’ (CSA) are highly complementary. SI is an essential means of adapting to climate change, also resulting in lower emissions per unit output. With its emphasis on improving risk management, information flows local institutions support adaptive capacity, CSA provides the foundations for incentivizing enabling intensification. But adaptation requires going beyond a narrow intensification lens include diversified...
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses the challenge of meeting growing demand for food, fibre and fuel, despite changing climate fewer opportunities agricultural expansion on additional lands. CSA focuses contributing to economic development, poverty reduction food security; maintaining enhancing productivity resilience natural ecosystem functions, thus building capital; reducing trade-offs involved in these goals. Current gaps knowledge, work within CSA, agendas interdisciplinary...
Abstract We examine a set of potentially climate smart agricultural practices, including reduced tillage, crop rotation and legume intercropping, combined with the use improved seeds inorganic fertiliser, for their effects on maize yields in Zambia. panel data from Rural Incomes Livelihoods Surveys merged novel climatic variables based geo‐referenced historical rainfall temperature to explore changing these practices conditions. estimate impacts yields, also exhibition very low yield...
Paying for the provision of environmental services is a recent policy innovation attracting much attention in both developed and developing countries. This innovation, referred to as ‘payments ecosystem services’ (when emphasis on enhancing ‘nature’ services) or amenities provided by built environment are also included) here PES. PES programs aim harness market forces obtain more efficient outcomes. Since so many opportunities could involve farmers poor regions, international aid agencies...
Adoption rates of improved or modern varieties (MV) sorghum in eastern Ethiopia are generally low. Although these MV may represent an effective means coping with droughts, given their early maturing traits, landraces could prove to be more drought-tolerant and better adapted marginal production conditions. Whether adoption is a risk reducing technology very much empirical question which this article investigates using unique dataset from year extreme weather Results show that risk-factors...
In this article, we assess the determinants of adoption agricultural technologies under climate risk and evaluate their impact on food security using data from Niger, together with a set novel weather variation indicators. We employ multivariate probit instrumental variable techniques to model decisions impact. find that both modern inputs (inorganic fertiliser improved seed) organic is positively associated crop productivity income. The use residues does not seem correlate could even have...
Abstract This article evaluates the impact of adoption improved pigeonpea technologies on consumption expenditure and poverty status using cross-sectional data 613 households from rural Tanzania. Using multiple econometric techniques, we found that adopting significantly increases reduces poverty. confirms potential role technology in improving household welfare as higher incomes translate into lower study supports broader investment agriculture research to address vital development...
Abstract Food systems must serve different societal, public health and individual nutrition, environmental objectives therefore face numerous challenges. Considering the integrated performances of food systems, this paper highlights five fundamental paradigm shifts that are required to overcome trade-offs build synergies between inclusive livelihoods, sustainability system resilience. We focus on challenges raise policy ambitions, harmonize production consumption goals, improve connectivity...
Even prior to COVID, there was a considerable push for food system transformation achieve better nutrition and health as well environmental climate change outcomes. Recent years have seen large number of high visibility influential publications on transformation. Literature is emerging questioning the utility scope these analyses, particularly in terms trade-offs among multiple objectives. We build critiques approaches our review four recent from EAT-Lancet Commission, IPCC, World Resources...
ABSTRACT Since modification of agricultural production choices in developing countries often provides positive environmental externalities to people developed countries, payment for services (PES) has become an important topic the context economic development and poverty reduction. We consider two broad categories PES programs, land-diversion where lands are diverted from agriculture other uses, working-land activities modified achieve objectives. programs generally good landowners. The...
Climate change is posing an increasingly severe challenge to agricultural livelihoods due increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Livelihood diversification can play important role in decreasing food insecurity vulnerability under these challenges. This paper contributes the literature on livelihood climate assess as part a Climate-Smart Agriculture strategy by analysing determinants diversification, income poverty Zambia using panel data. We specifically focus roles...