Agriculture which supports the livelihoods of the majority is challenged by many stressors including climate change impacts. Impacts such as floods and droughts have left farmers with no reliable option rather than farm management and off-farm activities such as irrigation, use o...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/15489
Climate change has been described as among the major challenges of the twenty-first century. However, this trend cannot be completely halted but can only be slowed down through the development and adoption of adaptation practices especially among the rural people whose major sour...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13193
Aims: The study was conducted to investigate the implications of smallholder agricultural commercialization on adaptation to climate change in semi-arid central Tanzania. Study Design: Descriptive survey and observational designs were used in this study. Moreover, analytical desi...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/16276
This research aimed to evaluate the effect of salt and temperature stress on water uptake and respiration of watermelon seeds during germination process and to quantify changes in the activity of the antioxidant enzymes ascorbate peroxidase (APX), catalase (CAT) and glutathione-S...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15749
Gender is an important socio-economic variable in determining vulnerability and ability to adapt to a changing climate and local institutions are known to help in connecting local populations and social groups to external support. The research determined the capacity of local ins...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/14252
Aims: This study assessed the indigenous coping strategies employed by smallholder farmers in response to adverse effects of climate change in Katsina State and the factors that determine the use of such strategies. Place and Duration of Study: The research was carried out in Aji...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/14785
The climate is changing, and humans are heavily exacerbating these changes. As the effects of climate change are being felt across the planet, scientists and policy makers are uniting to increase mitigation efforts and are researching renewable, clean energy sources to reduce the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14253
The hydrology and water quality of a stream or reservoir can be affected due to rapid urbanization and land use change in its watershed. Climate change, if it occurs, is likely to have additional impacts on hydrology and water quality of the watershed system. In this study, a wat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/11559
The reliability of stream flow projection under changing climate cannot be guaranteed if the General Circulation Model (GCM) used for the projection of future climate does not predict well its past climate. In this study stream flows in the Wami River sub-basin were simulated und...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/13457
Plant species are experiencing increasing challenges from climate change. Climate change is a serious threat to plant genetic diversity and the survival of many plant species which may substantially alter biodiversity. Crop wild relatives contribute many valuable genes for improv...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/14094
Recent scientific attention has shown serious concern towards municipal solid wastes (MSW) as a source of greenhouse gases and concentrated leachate. We studied the leachate pollution index (LPI) and emission fluxes of two greenhouse gases (CH4 and CO2) at two municipal solid was...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2014/14306
The increasing trend of climate change has led to growing concern on its impact on different sectors of the economy particularly on agriculture. Coping with the vulnerability and negative effects of climate change on agriculture requires mitigation at the policy level and adaptat...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/12169
Indonesia possesses a rich biodiversity with abundant natural resources such as tropical rain and peat swamp forests, oil and gas deposits, and fertile soils just to name a few. The state policies on natural resource management were decentralized and the power and local autonomy...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/11848
Smallholder farm households seem to have no alternative in addressing climate-induced food insecurity, but to adapt their livelihood systems to the changing climate condition. The study aimed to explore the link between climate-induced rice-insufficiency and vulnerability level o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12848
This research provides an insight into the threat of water resources in the northern region due to rising temperature and declining rainfall with the broad objective of analysing temperature and rainfall trends and their significance. A 50-year climate data from 1961-2010 on temp...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/13031