<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Perspectives on Climate Effects on Agriculture: The International Efforts of AgMIP in Sub-Saharan Africa</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">J</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Kihara</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">D S</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">MacCarthy</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">A</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Bationo</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Koala</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">J</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Hickman</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">J</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Koo</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">C</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Vanya</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Adiku</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Y</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Beletse</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">P</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Masikate</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">K P C</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Rao</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">C Z</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Mutter</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">C</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Rosenzweig</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">J W</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Jones</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is experiencing climate change-related&#13;
effects that call for integrated regional assessments, yet capacity for these assessments&#13;
has been low. The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement&#13;
Project (AgMIP) is advancing research on integrated regional assessments of climate&#13;
change that include climate, crop, and economic modeling and analysis. Through&#13;
AgMIP, regional integrated assessments are increasingly gaining momentum in SSA,&#13;
and multi-institutional regional research teams (RRTs) centered in East, West, and&#13;
Southern Africa are generating new information on climate change impacts and&#13;
adaptation in selected agricultural systems. The research in Africa is organized&#13;
into four RRTs and a coordination team. Each of the RRTs in SSA is composed&#13;
of scientists from the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research&#13;
(CGIAR) institutions, National Agriculture Research institutes (NARs), and universities&#13;
consisting of experts in crop and economic modeling, climate, and information&#13;
technology. Stakeholder involvement to inform specific agricultural systems to&#13;
be evaluated, key outputs, and the representative agricultural pathways (RAPs), is&#13;
undertaken at two levels: regional and national, in order to contribute to decisionmaking&#13;
at these levels. Capacity building for integrated assessment (IA) is a key component&#13;
that is undertaken continuously through interaction with experts in regional&#13;
and SSA-wide workshops, and through joint creation of tools. Many students and&#13;
research affiliates have been identified and entrained as part of capacity building in&#13;
IA. Bi-monthly updates on scholarly publications in climate change in Africa also&#13;
serve as a vehicle for knowledge-sharing. With 60 scientists already trained and&#13;
actively engaged in IA and over 80 getting monthly briefs on the latest information&#13;
on climate change, a climate-informed community of experts is gradually taking&#13;
shape in SSA.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Climate Change</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Sub-Saharan Africa</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2015</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>World Scientific Publishing</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Book Section</mods:genre></mods:mods>