Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change

Hachigonta Sepo; Nelson G.C.; Thomas T.S.; et al. - IFPRI, 2013

With agriculture being the main source of both employment and income for southern Africa’s rural population, there is great concern regarding the potential impact of climate change. This study, produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), represents a comprehensive analysis of ways to foster agricultural development and food security to reduce such impacts. Several weather-based scenarios have been developed by the authors, describing how climate change may affect the region up to 2050. National contributors from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swa ...

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 Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change

  Available online: http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/rr179.pdf

Sepo Hachigonta ; G.C. Nelson ; T.S. Thomas ; International Food Policy Research Institute

Published by: IFPRI ; 2013

With agriculture being the main source of both employment and income for southern Africa’s rural population, there is great concern regarding the potential impact of climate change. This study, produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), represents a comprehensive analysis of ways to foster agricultural development and food security to reduce such impacts. Several weather-based scenarios have been developed by the authors, describing how climate change may affect the region up to 2050. National contributors from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe review the scenarios and propose a variety of adaptation policies.
The opening chapter provides a regional overview, reviewing current trends, environmental status, economic, demographic, and well-being indicators, regional future scenarios with a particular focus on those showing changes in crops and finally an overview of results and recommendations for each country. Following this is a chapter on methodology, presenting technical information to better understand the results for each country. Finally, each of the eight countries are subject to an in-depth analysis, with significant amounts of supporting data provided. These country chapters discuss topics such as the policy context of agriculture production, various economic and social indicators, current climate trends, land use and agriculture overviews, scenarios for the future using various climate and crop models, and the likely impacts such scenarios imply for agriculture and vulnerability.

Language(s): English

Format: Digital (Free)

Tags: Agroclimatology ; Southern Africa ; Region I - Africa Add tag

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Southern African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis

Hachigonta Sepo; Nelson Gerald C.; Thomas T.S.; et al. - IFPRI, 2013

This study analyzes the range of plausible impacts of climate change by the year 2050, focusing almost entirely on crops. It builds on previous research that focused on regional and global effects of climate change. The first chapter provides a regional overview for southern Africa. Eight chapters look at the effects of climate change on eight countries in southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It is intended to provide policymakers and others concerned with climate change, agriculture, and food policy with guidance on the range o ...

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 Southern African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis

  Available online: http://preventionweb.net/go/34629

Sepo Hachigonta ; Gerald C. Nelson ; T.S. Thomas ; Lindiwe Majele Sibanda ; International Food Policy Research Institute

Published by: IFPRI ; 2013

This study analyzes the range of plausible impacts of climate change by the year 2050, focusing almost entirely on crops. It builds on previous research that focused on regional and global effects of climate change. The first chapter provides a regional overview for southern Africa. Eight chapters look at the effects of climate change on eight countries in southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It is intended to provide policymakers and others concerned with climate change, agriculture, and food policy with guidance on the range of the impacts of climate change and some information as to how climate change might affect various regions differently. It also provides some suggestions for policies that could most help each country prepare for the future impacts of climate change.

It provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the scope of climate change as it relates to food security in southern Africa, including who will be most affected and what policymakers can do to facilitate adaptation. Augmenting the text are dozens of detailed maps that provide graphical representations of the range of food security challenges and the special threats from climate change. Using a comprehensive integrated empirical analysis, it generates information to better guide national development agendas on climate change and have suggested that policymakers should (i) incorporate climate change adaptation strategies in short- and long-term national development planning ; (ii) develop national capacity in the skills and tools needed for technical assessments, planning, and policy development in the context of climate change; (iii) promote sustainable agriculture initiatives that target vulnerable communities; and (iv) enhance investments in relevant economic sectors, in particular the agricultural sector.

Language(s): English

Format: Digital (Free)

ISBN (or other code): 978-0-89629-208-6

Tags: Agroclimatology ; Climate change ; Botswana ; Lesotho ; Malawi ; Mozambique ; South Africa ; Eswatini ; Zambia ; Zimbabwe ; Region I - Africa Add tag

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