Is Cassava the Answer to African Climate Change Adaptation?

By A. Jarvis, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Beatriz Vanessa Herrera Campo, Carlos Navarro-Racines. Tropical Plant Biology, 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Barriers to climate change adaptation: evidence from northeast Ghana in the context of a systematic literature review (2015, background): “In this regard, the virtues of cassava (Manihot esculenta) as an answer to climate change adaptation in Africa have been documented (see Jarvis, Ramirez-Villegas, Campo, & Navarro-Racines, 2012).”
• Stress-Tolerant Cassava: The Role of Integrative Ecophysiology-Breeding Research in Crop Improvement (2012, background): “Predicted suitability changes in the year 2030 for maize, sorghum, millet, common beans, potato and banana, as average of 24 GCMs (Global Circulation Models), in North Africa, and sub-Saharan region [45].”
• Food and Earth Systems: Priorities for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Agriculture and Food Systems (2019, background): “With progressive climate change, climatic suitability of cultivable areas will decline to a greater or lesser extent for most staple foods [91].”