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DOI	10.1007/s10584-020-02684-8
	Climate change adaptation strategies; productivity and sustainable food security in southern Mali
	Diallo A.; Donkor E.; Owusu V.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	309
结束页码	327
卷号	159 期号:3
英文摘要	Many people in African countries derive their livelihoods from agriculture. Therefore, unfavourable environmental and climatic conditions render them more vulnerable to increasing food insecurity and poverty rates. However, few studies have investigated how farmers’ adaptation strategies affect farm productivity and household food security in the Sahelian region, notably Mali. We analyse factors that influence adaptation strategies to climate change and the impacts of the adaptation strategies on maize productivity and household food security in southern Mali. Farmers use adaptation strategies such as organic fertilizers, changing planting dates and growing of short duration maize varieties to mitigate against the negative effects of climate change. We find that farmer experience, number of livestock owned, off-farm employment, access to credit, farmer association and technical training exert positive effects on the use of planting short-duration maize varieties as an adaptation strategy, while distance to the farm shows a negative effect. We observe that household size, experience in maize farming, number of livestock owned and technical training positively influence farmers to change planting dates as an adaptation strategy. The use of organic fertilizers and short-duration maize varieties promote maize productivity and food security. We conclude that building farmers’ adaptive capacity tends to reduce their vulnerability to climate change by increasing crop yields and food security. © 2020, Springer Nature B.V.
英文关键词	Adaptation strategies; Climate change; Environmental change; Food security; Maize yield; Mali
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Agricultural robots; Cultivation; Fertilizers; Food supply; Industrial management; Productivity; Technical presentations; Adaptation strategies; Environmental change; Food security; Maize yield; Mali; Climate change; adaptive management; climate change; crop production; crop yield; food security; livelihood; maize; strategic approach; sustainability; sustainable development; Mali; Sahel [Sub-Saharan Africa]; Zea mays
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147204
作者单位	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Indicated that Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Bamako, Mali; Faculty of Life Sciences, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Marie-Curie-Straße 1, Kleve, 47533, Germany; Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, PMB, Kumasi, Ghana
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Diallo A.,Donkor E.,Owusu V.. Climate change adaptation strategies; productivity and sustainable food security in southern Mali[J],2020,159(3).
APA	Diallo A.,Donkor E.,&Owusu V..(2020).Climate change adaptation strategies; productivity and sustainable food security in southern Mali.Climatic Change,159(3).
MLA	Diallo A.,et al."Climate change adaptation strategies; productivity and sustainable food security in southern Mali".Climatic Change 159.3(2020).