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EPIC Policy Brief No. 3
Policy brief, 2015
This policy brief summarizes the main points of the mitigation analysis of the EPIC programme for Zambia. It identifies the principal sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and highlights that the Agriculture, Forestry and Land...
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Keywords: EPIC brief_Zambia_FINAL_LowRes.pdf
Country case study, 2015
This paper explores the impact of climate risk on the adoption of risk decreasing practices and other input choices and evaluates their impact on subjective and objective measures
of household welfare (namely net crop income...
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Country case study, 2015
This paper analyzes how a set of widely promoted agricultural practices, including reduced tillage, crop rotations, legume intercropping as well as the use of modern inputs, affect crop yields and their resilience (i.e. probability of...
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ESA Working Paper 14-08
Working paper, 2014
This paper assesses farmers’ incentives and conditioning factors that hinder or promote adaptation strategies and evaluates its impact on crop productivity by utilizing household level data collected in 2011 from nationally representative sample households in...
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ESA Working Paper 13-07
Working paper, 2013
Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa must undergo significant productivity improvements to meet the combined challenges of population growth and climate change. A proposed means of achieving such improvements is increased use of a ‘climate-smart agriculture’ approach...
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A research guide for the From Protection to Production project
Country case study, 2013
This Qualitative Research Guide describes in detail the sequencing and timing of the research process to be implemented in each country: training, fieldwork preparation and a simple and clear fieldwork roadmap. To achieve comparability and...
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Information product, 2013
This brief provides emerging evidence from the implementation of the Climate-Smart Agriculture project in Zambia. The analysis clearly indicates that better screening of agro-ecological and socio-economic constraints and incentives for adoption of conservation farming are...
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Information product, 2013
This brief provides emerging evidence from the implementation of the Climate-Smart Agriculture project in Malawi. We analyze factors governing farmers’ decision to adopt adaptation strategies and evaluate the potential impact of adoption on crop productivity...
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ESA Working Paper 13-01
Working paper, 2013
This paper analyses the determinants of farmer adoption of conservation farming practices
using panel data from two rounds of the Rural Incomes and Livelihoods Surveys that were
implemented in 2004 and 2008. Conservation farming (CF)...
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ESA Working Paper 12-09
Working paper, 2012
Investment in agriculture is widely recognized as crucial for economic growth, poverty reduction and improved food and nutrition security. Although several estimates have been made of how much investment is needed in agriculture to achieve...
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