Journal Articles and Books

Participatory scenarios as a tool to link science and policy on food security under climate change in East Africa

Chaudhury, M., Vervoort, J., Kristjanson, P, Ericksen, P., Ainslie, A.

Regional Environmental Change

http://hdl.handle.net/10568/24447 (open access)

Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices? Evidence from East Africa

Patti Kristjanson, Henry Neufeldt, Anja Gassner, Joash Mango, Florence B. Kyazze, Solomon Desta, George Sayula, Brian Thiede, Wiebke Förch, Philip K. Thornton and Richard Coe

Food Security, Vol 4, 2012.

DOI: 10.1007/s12571-012-0194-z (open access)

A method for evaluating climate change adaptation strategies for small-scale farmers using survey, experimental and modeled data

L. Claessens, J.M. Antle, J.J. Stoorvogel, R.O. Valdiviac, P.K. Thornton, M. Herrero

Agricultural Systems 111 (2012) 85–95

DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2012.05.003

Greenhouse gas emissions under conservation agriculture compared to traditional cultivation of maize in the central highlands of Mexico

Dendooven, L., Gutiérrez-Oliva, V.F., Patiño-Zúñiga, L., Ramirez-Villanueva, D.A., Verhulst, N., Luna-Guido, M., Marsch, R., Montes-Molina, J., Gutierrez-Miceli, F.A., Vázquez-Murrieta, S., Govaerts, B.

Science of the Total Environment 431 (2012) 237-244

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.05.029 (subscription required)

Maize Production in a Changing Climate: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation Strategies

J.E. Cairns, K. Sonder, P.H. Zaidi, N. Verhulst, G. Mahuku, R. Babu, S.K. Nair, B. Das, B. Govaerts, M.T. Vinayan, Z. Rashid, J.J. Noor, P. Devi, F. San Vicente and B.M. Prasanna

Advances in Agronomy, 114, 2012.

DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394275-3.00006-7

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Assessing the vulnerability of traditional maize seed systems in Mexico to climate change

Mauricio R. Bellona, David Hodson, and Jon Hellin

PNAS, August 2011

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103373108

Is Cassava the Answer to African Climate Change Adaptation?

Andy Jarvis, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Beatriz Vanessa Herrera Campo and Carlos Navarro-Racines 

Tropical Plant Biology, 2012

DOI: 10.1007/s12042-012-9096-7

Climate change, agriculture and food security: a global partnership to link research and action for low-income agricultural producers and consumers

Sonja Vermeulen, Robert Zougmore ́, Eva Wollenberg, Philip Thornton, Gerald Nelson, Patricia Kristjanson, James Kinyangi, Andrew Jarvis, James Hansen, Andrew Challinor, Bruce Campbell and Pramod Aggarwal

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2012, 4:1–6 

DOI 10.1016/j.cosust.2011.12.004

Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture

Book edited by Eva Wollenberg, Maja-Liisa Tapio-Bistrom, Maryanne Grieg-Gran, Alison Nihart

December 2011

The authors acknowledge the support of the European Union and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change

S.J. Vermeulen, P.K. Aggarwal, A. Ainslie, C. Angelone, B.M. Campbell, A.J. Challinor, J.W. Hansen, J.S Ingram, A. Jarvis, P. Kristjanson, C. Lau, G.C. Nelson, P.K. Thornton, E. Wollenberg

Environmental Science & Policy, 14 October 2011 (online)

DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2011.09.003

(an unreviewed version is freely available here)

Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

Shyam Singh Yadav, Robert Redden, Jerry L. Hatfield, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Anthony Hall (eds)

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ISBN: 978-0-8138-2016-3

October 2011 

Lessons from Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation: advancing agriculture in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Christine Negra‌, Eva Wollenberg‌

Carbon Management, April 2011, Vol. 2, No. 2, Pages 161-173.

DOI 10.4155/cmt.11.12

Strengthening understanding and perceptions of mineral fertilizeruse among smallholder farmers: evidence from collective trials in western Kenya

Michael Misiko, Pablo Tittonell, Ken E. Giller and Paul Richards 

Agriculture and Human Values, 28, 27-38. 2011.

DOI 10.1007/s10460-010-9264-z

Review of seasonal climate forecasting for agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

James Hansen, Simon J Mason, Liqiang Sun, Arame Tall 

Experimental Agriculture, 47:2, 205-204, 2011.

DOI: 10.1017/S0014479710000876

An Integrated Adaptation and Mitigation Framework for Developing Agricultural Research: Synergies and Trade-Offs

Andrew Jarvis, Charlotte Lau, Simon Cook, Eva Wollenberg, James Hansen, Osana Bonilla, Andrew Challinor

Experimental Agriculture, 47, pp 185-203. 2011.

DOI 10.1017/S0014479711000123

Agriculture and food systems in sub-Saharan Africa in a 4°C+ world

Philip K Thornton, Peter G Jones, Polly J Ericksen, Andrew J Challinor

 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A  vol. 369 no. 1934 117-136, 2011.

DOI 10.1098/rsta.2010.0246

Over the heads of local people: consultation, consent and recompense in large-scaleland deals for biofuels projects in Africa 

Sonja J Vermeulen and Lorenzo Cotula.

Journal of Peasant Studies, 37:4, 899-916. 2010.

DOI 10.1080/03066150.2010.512463

Potential for reduced methane and carbon dioxide emissions from livestock and pasture management in the tropics

Philip K Thornton and Mario Herrero

PNAS November 16, 2010 vol. 107 no. 46 19667-19672.

DOI 10.1073/pnas.0912890107

Beyond Copenhagen: REDD+, agriculture, adaptation strategies and poverty

Bruce Campbell

Global Environmental Change 19, 2009, 397-399.

DOI 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.07.010