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  • Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure

    The Power and Water Sectors

    Edited by Raffaello Cervigni, Rikard Liden, James E. Neumann, Kenneth M. Strzepek ...
    Building climate-resilient infrastructure in Africa's power and water sectors. This report provides a framework for enhancing the climate resilience of Africa's infrastructure, focusing on the power and water sectors. It addresses the critical need for sustainable development in the face of climate change, offering insights for policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and students.Explore the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confronting Drought in Africa's Drylands

    Opportunities for Enhancing Resilience

    Edited by Raffaello Cervigni, Michael Morris ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Drylands are at the core of Africa's development challenge. Drylands make up about 43 percent of the region's land surface, account for about 75 percent of the area used for agriculture, and are home to about 50 percent of the population, including a disproportionate share of the poor. Due to complex interactions among many factors, vulnerability in drylands is high and rising, jeopardizing the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confronting Drought in Africa's Drylands

    Opportunities for Enhancing Resilience

    Edited by Raffaello Cervigni, Michael Morris ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Drylands are at the core of Africa’s development challenge. Drylands make up about 43 percent of the region’s land surface, account for about 75 percent of the area used for agriculture, and are home to about 50 percent of the population, including a disproportionate share of the poor. Due to complex interactions among many factors, vulnerability in drylands is high and rising, jeopardizing the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Mitigating Drought Impacts in Drylands

    Quantifying the Potential for Strengthening Crop- and Livestock-Based Livelihoods

    Edited by Federica Carfagna, Raffaello Cervigni, Pierre Fallavier ...
    Series series World Bank Studies
    Drylands account for three-quarters of Sub-Saharan Africa's cropland, two-thirds of cereal production, and four-fifths of livestock holdings. Today frequent and severe shocks, especially droughts, limit the livelihood opportunities available to millions of households and undermine efforts to eradicate poverty in the drylands. Prospects for sustainable development of drylands are assessed in this ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure

    The Power and Water Sectors

    Edited by Raffaello Cervigni, Rikard Liden, James E. Neumann, Strzepek ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    To sustain Africa’s growth, and accelerate the eradication of extreme poverty, investment in infrastructure is fundamental. In 2010, the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic found that to enable Africa to fill its infrastructure gap, some US$ 93 billion per year for the next decade will need to be invested. The Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), endorsed in 2012 by the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    Edited by Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, David Zilberman, Solomon Asfaw, Giacomo Branca ...
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    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license.The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of ... Read more

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  • The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security 2023: Avoiding and Reducing Losses through Investment in Resilience

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    To reduce the risk of climate change impacts it is necessary for the world to lower the carbon intensity of economic development. Experts estimates the net costs, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions, and investment that would be needed to achieve a low-carbon scenario in Mexico to the year 2030.Among the key findings• Energy efficiency. Improving energy end-use efficiency is the least-cost ... Read more

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