Previous studies suggested that maize is set to become a cash crop while ensuring food security better than any other crop. However, climate change has become one of the key production constraints that are now hampering and threatening the sustainability of maize production syste...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v37i430287
The CO2 (carbon dioxide) circulation models referred by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) show that the increase of atmospheric CO2 by 240 GtC (Gigatonnes of carbon) from 1750 to 2011 is totally anthropogenic in nature, which corresponds to the permille value o...
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Research Article10.9734/psij/2019/v23i430168
The phenological events of 68 reproductive mature Gmelina arborea trees were monitored at three different periods, every month along the year in Idemili South forests for two consecutive annual cycles. Leaf initiation started with the emergence of leaf buds in first March, coinci...
At about the same time that Russian President Putin declared that “We are really witnessing global warming, the reasons, however, remain obscure....”, I published the first of six scientific articles disclosing the evidence and basis for understanding that particulate pollution,...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2019/v23i430181
Climate change has an impact on Indian agriculture in various direct and indirect ways besides affecting the lives and livelihood of millions of Indians. Efficient management of natural resources is key for enhancing the adaptive capacity of the system and contributes towards the...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i630405
Scrutiny and analysis of various energy applications show that the energy conversion to useful work or new products has been systematically inefficient. The global energy’s total effective conversion efficiency is estimated only about 20% and about 80% of the energy has been disc...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i1230160
Climate change exacerbates ecosystem degradation in Sahel where rural communities are highly dependent on natural resources and ecosystem services for their livelihoods. In order cope with the adverse effects of climate change by developing climate adaptation strategies, there ha...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i1230157
Many studies have reported that native plant species can contribute to ensuring food security in the world. Among the Brazilian species, the Caryocar coriaceum has a high utility value for the communities in Northeast Brazil but it is under threat due to the degradation of the Ce...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v41i430406
The changing climate is hitting smallholder farmers hard. It is doing so especial in the African continent which is regularly pronounced as most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Climate change brings droughts and floods, pests and diseases; it means poorer crops, les...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i430371
Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) is a strategy that relies on forest landscape’s biodiversity management and restoration to enhance the sustainable production and supply of ecosystem goods and services as alternative livelihoods to cushion the society against the negative impacts...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i1230149
The present study aims to analyse the relationship between technical efficiency and the adverse effect of climate change manifestations among sesame farmers in Benue State, Nigeria. A combination of purposive and random sampling techniques was used to select 372 sesame producers....
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i230184
This study aimed at determining the educational requirement of Beekeepers in mitigating Climate Change Effects on bee honey production in Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria. The survey research design was used in achieving this. To adequately and appropria...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2019/v33i330123
Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a cash crop that is cultivated in many tropical regions of the world and is highly productive under favourable climatic conditions. Cocao, being originally an under storey tree of rainforests in tropical America, is traditionally cultivated below the...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2019/v19i430092
Climate change impacts such as rainfall variability, rise in ambient temperature, extreme dry spells and excessive wet periods cause low productivity and quality of tea. Ratnapura District in Sri Lanka, having the largest number of tea smallholders, is highly vulnerable to natura...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v36i330244
Coping and adaptation to the impacts of climate change such as drought is increasingly necessary. Due to the expanding global impacts of climate change coping and adaptation agenda among various agencies, it is of primary importance to understand the coping and adaptation strateg...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2019/v10i430121