relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/3574/
title: Impacts of climate change on rainfed agriculture and adaptation strategies to improve livelihoods  
creator: Craufurd, P Q
creator: Jagadish, S V K
creator: Padgham, J
subject: Watershed Management
description: Farmers living and working in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) of Africa and Asia are  acutely vulnerable to climate variability and change due to their limited natural and  financial resources coupled with poor infrastructure, institutional support, and gover-  nance (World Bank 2008). Coping with variability is nonetheless a way of life for many  of these farmers, and farmers in many different regions of the world have adopted or  adapted strategies to manage variability. In this chapter we first describe the impacts  of climate change on crop and livestock production, water resources, and prices,  poverty, and malnutrition in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Secondly,  we examine adaptation strategies, focusing on the social/institutional aspects needed  to support farmers’ adaptation strategies as well as describing briefly strategies used  by farmers.  
publisher: CRC Press(Taylor & Francis)
date: 2011
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/3574/1/Chapter_13.pdf
identifier:   Craufurd, P Q and Jagadish, S V K and Padgham, J  (2011) Impacts of climate change on rainfed agriculture and adaptation strategies to improve livelihoods.   In:  Integrated Watershed Management in Rainfed Agriculture.   CRC Press(Taylor & Francis), Londn, UK, pp. 421-440.  ISBN 978-0-415-88277-4