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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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• Changing Surface Conditions at Kilimanjaro Indicated from Multiscale Imagery

  Published on February 7, 2009
  The shrinking glacier atop Kilimanjaro has received much attention as it is one of the few remaining tropical glaciers in the world. Physical drivers ranging from changes in temperature and humidity to shifts in cloud coverage and radiation have been...

• Climate Change Adaptation among Poultry Farmers: Evidence from Nigeria

  Published on September 10, 2018
  Liverpool-Tasie, Sanou and Tambo, 2018. Climate Change Adaptation among Poultry Farmers: Evidence from Nigeria. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy, Research Brief 68.

• Climate Shocks and Resilience: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

  Published on November 18, 2021
  Research Paper #2. In this paper we examine the relationship between climate shock and household consumption and then assess how household resilience influences this relationship.

• Climate-Smart Agriculture, Cropland Expansion, and Deforestation in Zambia: Linkages, Processes, and Drivers

  Published on January 6, 2020
  Hambulo Ngoma, Johanne Pelletier, Brian P Mulenga, and Mitelo Subakanya, 2019. Climate-Smart Agriculture, Cropland Expansion, and Deforestation in Zambia: Linkages, Processes, and Drivers, FSP Policy Brief 111.

• Agrarian Legacy in Soil Nutrient Pools of Urbanizing Arid Lands

  Published on January 17, 2006
  Todays worldwide expansion of dry land cities consumes cultivated and native ecosystems, providing laboratories for investigating imprints of former land use in places where people now live. Around Phoenix, USA, we compared soil nutrient pools in res...

• Recent Climate Trends on the Northern Slopes of the Tianshan Mountains, Xinjiang, China

  Published on March 4, 2009
  In arid regions, mountains fulfill important ecological and economic functions for the surrounding lowlands. In the scenario of global warming, mountain ecosystems change rapidly, especially in the arid region of northwestern China. This paper provid...

• Forging New Perspectives in Fisheries Science and Management

  Published on July 8, 2011
  Climate change is often the subject of scathing headlines and vicious debates, and is unquestionably a highly politicized topic

• Bringing values and deliberation to science communication

  Published on August 13, 2013
  Decisions always involve both facts and values, whereas most science communication focuses only on facts. If science communication is intended to inform decisions, it must be competent with regard to both facts and values

• Is Conservation Agriculture Climate- Smart, or Can It Be? A Synthesis From Sub-Saharan Africa

  Published on May 22, 2019
  Hambulo Ngoma, Arild Angelsen, Thomas S. Jayne, and Antony Chapoto, 2019. FSP Research Paper 132. East Lansing. Michigan State University

• Can Input Subsidy Programs Contribute to Climate Smart Agriculture?

  Published on November 7, 2017
  T.S. Jayne, Nicholas J. Sitko, and Nicole M. Mason, 2017. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Paper 87.

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  Marquette Area Climate and Health Adaptation Guidebook - Volume III: Prioritizing and Implementing Recommendations

  Published on September 19, 2019
  This volume of the Marquette Area Climate and Health Adaptation Guidebook outlines action steps and further stakeholder engagement options.

• Hidden Benefits of Electric Vehicles for Addressing Climate Change

  Published on March 19, 2015
  Here we reveal two hidden benefits of EVs for addressing climate change to support the imperative acceleration of replacing CVs with EVs.

• Climate Change Adaptation in the Nigerian Agricultural Sector

  Published on May 6, 2019
  Schmitt-Olabisi, Liverpool-Tasie, Onyeneke, Choko, Osuntade, Sanou, Singa, Chiemela, 2019. Climate Change Adaptation in the Nigerian Agricultural Sector, FSP Research Brief 91, East Lansing: Michigan State University

• Implications of future climate and atmospheric CO2 content for regional biogeochemistry, biogeography and ecosystem services across East Africa

  Published on February 5, 2009
  We model future changes in land biogeochemistry and biogeography across East Africa. East Africa is one of few tropical regions where general circulation model (GCM) future climate projections exhibit a robust response of strong future warming and ge...

• Climate Change Adaptation Among Poultry Farmers: Evidence from Nigeria

  Published on September 14, 2018
  Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Awa Sanou and Justice A. Tambo, 2018. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Paper 114. East Lansing: Michigan State University

• Sustainable Land Management under Rural Transformation in Africa

  Published on July 28, 2018
  T. S. Jayne, Frank Place, and Sieglinde Snapp, ICAE pre-conference workshop Rural Transformation in the 21st Century: The Challenges of Low-Income, Late Transforming Countries, July 28, 2018, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

• Modeling Resilience and Sustainability in Ancient Agricultural Systems

  Published on January 25, 2015
  The reasons why people adopt unsustainable agricultural practices, and the ultimate environmental implications of those practices, remain incompletely understood in the present world. Archaeology, however, offers unique datasets on coincident cultura...

• Climate-Smart Agriculture, Cropland Expansion, and Deforestation in Zambia: Linkages, Processes, and Drivers

  Published on December 15, 2019
  Hambulo Ngoma, Johanne Pelletier, Brian P Mulenga, and Mitelo Subakanya, 2019. Climate-Smart Agriculture, Cropland Expansion, and Deforestation in Zambia: Linkages, Processes, and Drivers, FSP Research Paper 162.

• The Role of Policy and Institutions in Greening the Charcoal Value Chain in Zambia

  Published on January 9, 2020
  Mulako Kabisa, Brian P. Mulenga, Hambulo Ngoma, and Mercy Mupeta Kandulu, 2019. The Role of Policy and Institutions in Greening the Charcoal Value Chain in Zambia, FSP Research Paper 167.

• Climate Change and the Poultry Value Chain in Nigeria: Issues, Emerging Evidence, and Hypotheses

  Published on March 1, 2017
  Awa Sanou, Bukola Osuntade, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, and Thomas Reardon. 2017. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Paper 45.