Croppers to livestock keepers: livelihood transitions to 2050 in Africa due to climate change

By Peter G. Jones, P. K. Thornton. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Climate Change and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Literature Review (2010, background): “Availability was the primary focus of food security research, typically in relation to expectations of decreased crop productivity and land degradation [3-8,11,20-25].”
Transitions in agro-pastoralist systems of East Africa: Impacts on food security and poverty (2013, methodology): “Methods This work builds on Jones and Thornton (2009) using igh-resolution methods to identify, analyse and characterise otspots where climate change might induce system extenification in the future.”
Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action (2014, neutral): “strained in the pastoralists’ home regions [99].”
Climate change and the growth of the livestock sector in developing countries (2010, background): “In sub-Saharan Africa, many of these areas already have high poverty rates, and they tend to be far from markets and transport infrastructure ( Jones and Thornton 2009 ).”
The impacts of climate change on livestock and livestock systems in developing countries: A review of what we know and what we need to know (2009, background): “The first generation of drought-tolerant beans in Latin America is only now reaching the release phase, and that work has taken 30 years so far (Jones et al., 2008) – this is by no means atypical.”
Livestock, livelihoods and the environment: understanding the trade-offs (2009, background): “Farmers might then have to revert to livestock rearing as the only viable livelihood system [52].”
Closing maize yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa will boost soil N2O emissions (2020, methodology): “Seasonal N2O emissions were scaled to annual emissions using the number of cropping seasons per grid cell based on WorldCLIM climate layers [47,48].”
Challenges to scenario-guided adaptive action on food security under climate change (2014, background): “Initially, climate change was treated the same across all scenarios, given the relative certainty around this driver up to 2030 perceived by stakeholders based on Jones and Thornton (2009). Similarly, with a time horizon up to 2030 the participants assumed that the different scenario pathways did no”
Food and Earth Systems: Priorities for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Agriculture and Food Systems (2019, background): “[92] suggest that farmers may be forced to switch to livestock as the primary source of livelihood.”
Response to climate risks among smallholder farmers in Malawi: A multivariate probit assessment of the role of information, household demographics, and farm characteristics (2015, background): “Households with a higher TLU value can afford to take risks and rely on the livestock in times of climate shocks(Jones and Thornton 2009).”
Mapping the Global Distribution of Livestock (2014, background): “Length of Growing Period (LGP) Jones & Thornton (2009) [48]”
Climate change adaptation and mitigation in smallholder crop–livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa: a call for integrated impact assessments (2016, background): “Hence, trends towards more livestock-oriented systems are likely in areas where annual crops become less suitable (Jones and Thornton 2009).”