The economic and food security implications of climate change in Mali

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dc.contributor.authorButt, T.en
dc.contributor.authorMcCarl, Bruce A.en
dc.contributor.authorAngerer, Jayen
dc.contributor.authorDyke, P.en
dc.contributor.authorStuth, Jerryen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialMalien
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:07:04Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:07:04Zen
dc.date.issued2003en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis study uses climate change projections from two global circulation models to address the impact of climate change on Mali's agriculture sector and the consequences for the sector economy and food security. The authors focus on crops, forage, and livestock as indicators of climate change effects. The analysis projected a change in national crop yields between a 17% decrease and a 6% increase, a 5 to 36% decrease in forage yields, and a 14 to 16% decrease in livestock weights. These changes correspond to economic losses of $70 to $142 million, which are primarily absorbed by the consumers; the percentage of the population at risk for hunger is projected to increase to 64 to 72%, which is a potentially doubling the current estimate of 34%. The authors suggest that developing heat resistant cultivars, using improved cultivars already developed, adapting cropping patterns to climate changes, and expanding cropland can prevent these dramatic consequences of climate change and lower the percentage facing a hunger risk to as low as 28%.en
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dc.identifier144en
dc.identifier.citationClimatic Change 68: 355-378en
dc.identifier.issn0165-0009en
dc.identifier.issn1573-1480en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65230en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherDordrecht-Holland ; Boston: Reidel Publishing Companyen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright Springer 2005en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectForageen
dc.subjectSemiarid zonesen
dc.subjectFood securityen
dc.subjectEconomic impactsen
dc.subjectLivestocken
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectMalien
dc.subjectAgriculture sectoren
dc.subjectCrop yieldsen
dc.subjectImpact assessmenten
dc.subjectClimatic risken
dc.subjectBiophysical modelen
dc.subjectEpicen
dc.subjectPhytomass growth simulator (phygrow)en
dc.subjectNutbalen
dc.subjectMasmen
dc.subjectHadcmen
dc.subjectCgcmen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleThe economic and food security implications of climate change in Malien
dc.typeAbstracten
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