climate change crop Articles
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The Difficulty of Defining Adaptation Finance
While working on tracking adaptation finance for our Adaptation Finance Accountability Initiative project, we often get the question “What is adaptation finance?” or “What counts as adaptation finance?” To our embarrassment, we still don’t have a clear answer to either question, other than “Well… finance that funds efforts to adapt to the impacts of ...
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Crop gene banks are preserving the future of agriculture. But who’s preserving them?
As climate change makes crop diversity even more important, gene banks struggle to stay afloat. During the past few years of civil war in Syria, rebel fighters have destroyed Shia mosques and Christian graves, and burned and looted Christian churches while the Islamic State group has demolished priceless artifacts in the region. Nothing seemed sacred to the disparate groups vying for control of ...
By Ensia
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Climate change impacts on regional maize yields and possible adaptation measures in Argentina
In this work, the impact of future climate (2081-2090) on regional maize yields was assessed through a crop simulation model. The climatic inputs correspond to the regional model MM5/CIMA, considering grids of 50 km * 50 km. Crop model runs were done under typical crop management conditions with and without considering the fertilisation effect of CO2. Without CO2 effects, the impact of future ...
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