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  Climate Change

  Michigan State University researchers and outreach specialists are working to ensure the sustainability of our agriculture and natural resources systems amidst a changing climate.

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• Effects of conservation policy on China's forest recovery

  Published on March 18, 2016
  Forest loss is one of the most pervasive land surface transformations on Earth, with drastic effects on global climate, ecosystems, and human well-being

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  Marquette Area Climate and Health Adaptation Guidebook - Volume II: Policy and Metric Recommendations

  Published on January 18, 2019
  The Marquette Area Climate and Health Adaptation Guidebook - Volume II includes health-related metrics associated with each policy tool for users to track and evaluate their own planning activities.

• Eliciting expert knowledge to inform landscape modeling of conservation scenarios

  Published on June 20, 2012
  Conservation and land management organizations such as The Nature Conservancy are developing strategies to distribute conservation efforts over larger areas. Relative to fee-simple protection efforts, strategies that allow ecologically sustainable...

• Integrating Climate- and Market-Smartness into Strategies for Sustainable Productivity Growth of African Agri-food Systems

  Published on February 28, 2018
  Nicholas J. Sitko and T.S. Jayne. 2018. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Paper 94.

• Pay, Talk, or 'Whip' to Conserve Forests: Framed Field Experiments in Zambia

  Published on August 26, 2019
  Hambulo Ngoma, Amare Teklay Hailu, Stephen Kabwe, and Arild Angelsen, 2019. Pay, Talk, or 'Whip' to Conserve Forests: Framed Field Experiments in Zambia Feed the Future Innovation Lab for FSP Paper 145. East Lansing: Michigan State University.

• Strategic Planning for Irrigation Development in Myanmar

  Published on March 20, 2018
  Mark W. Rosegrant, NayPyiTaw, Myanmar, March 20, 2018

• Switching Up Climate-Smart Agriculture Adoption: Do 'Green' Subsidies, Insurance, Risk Aversion and Impatience Matter?

  Published on December 1, 2019
  Hambulo Ngoma, Nicole M. Mason-Wardell, Paul C. Samboko, and Peter Hangoma, 2019. Switching Up Climate-Smart Agriculture Adoption: Do 'Green' Subsidies, Insurance, Risk Aversion and Impatience Matter?, FSP Research Paper 164.

• JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES - Spatio-temporal variations of the flood mitigation service of ecosystem under different climate scenarios in the Upper Reaches of Hanjiang River Basin, China

  Published on August 27, 2018
  Extreme rainstorm and the subsequent flood increasingly threaten the security of human society and ecological environment with aggravation of global climate change and anthropogenic activity in recent years

• Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Growth: What Does it Mean in Practice and How to Achieve it?

  Published on November 28, 2018
  Hambulo Ngoma, 2018. Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute, Lusaka, Zambia 5th Annual Conference of the Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI) Park Hyatt Hotel, Zanzibar, Tanzania, November 28, 2018

• System Dynamics Modelling of Maize Production under Future Climate Scenarios in Kaduna, Nigeria

  Published on March 3, 2018
  Udita Sanga, Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie. 2018. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Paper 97.

• Impacts des variétés ameliorées de sorgho sur les exploitations agricoles familiales au Mali

  Published on October 3, 2016
  Melinda Smale, Amidou Assima, Alpha Kergna, Véronique Thériault, Eva Weltzien. 2016. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Paper 25 - FR.

• Perceptions and exposure to climate events: Evidence from actors along the maize- poultry value chain in Nigeria

  Published on April 17, 2020
  Liverpool-Tasie, L.S.O., Pummel, H., Tambo, J.A., Schmitt Olabisi, L. and Osuntade, O. (2020). “Perceptions and exposure to climate events: Evidence from actors along the maize- poultry value chain in Nigeria”. Journal of Environmental Management

• Strategies for sustainable management of renewable resources during environmental change

  Published on May 3, 2017
  As a consequence of global environmental change, management strategies that can deal with unexpected change in resource dynamics are becoming increasingly important. In this paper we undertake a novel approach to studying resource growth problems ...

• Can Input Subsidy Programs Promote Climate Smart Agriculture in Africa?

  Published on July 1, 2016
  Thomas S. Jayne, Nicholas J. Sitko, Nicole M. Mason, and David Skole. 2016. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Brief 16.

• Gender, Generation and Agricultural Intensification: A Case of Two Cereals in the Sudanian Savanna

  Published on August 2, 2016
  Véronique Thériault, Melinda Smale, Alpha Kergna, Amidou Assima, and Naman Keita, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2, 2016

• Can Conservation Agriculture Save Tropical Forests? The Case of Minimum Tillage in Zambia

  Published on September 15, 2019
  Hambulo Ngoma and Arild Angelsen, 2019. Can Conservation Agriculture Save Tropical Forests? The Case of Minimum Tillage in Zambia. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Paper 150. East Lansing: Michigan State University.

• The Impact of the 2015/16 Drought on Staple Maize Markets in Southern and Eastern Africa

  Published on May 2, 2017
  Ferdi Meyer, Tracy Davids, Zena Mpenda, Meizal Popat, Orcidia Vilanculos, Brian Chisanga, and Raphael Gitau. 2017. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Brief 38.

• ENERGY -- Energy sustainability under the framework of telecoupling

  Published on April 5, 2016
  Telecouplings widely exist in energy systems with various forms and link energy sustainability of different countries closely, so we proposed some methods for energy sustainability analysis under the framework of telecoupling.

• Pay, Talk or `Whip' to Conserve Forests: Framed Field Experiments in Zambia

  Published on November 13, 2018
  Hambulo Ngoma, Amare Teklay Hailu, Stephen Kabwe, and Arild Angelsen, 2018. AFRE Brown Bag Seminar, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, November 13, 2018

• Farm Family Effects of Improved Sorghum Varieties in Mali: A Multivalued Treatment Approach

  Published on October 3, 2016
  Melinda Smale, Amidou Assima, Alpha Kergna, Véronique Thériault, and Eva Weltzien. 2016. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Paper 25 - EN.