East african agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis

Miriam Kyotalimye, Gerald Nelson, Timothy Thomas and Michael Waithaka

No 76, Issue briefs from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Agriculture is essential to the economies of East African countries. Climate change, with its effects on temperature and precipitation, threatens this important economic activity. How to foster agricultural development and food security in East Africa as the effects of climate change become more serious is the subject of the study East African Agriculture

Keywords: climate change; rainfall; drought; Irrigation; Water management; Adaptation; Agriculture; Poverty; Gender Women; Agricultural development; Agricultural policies; Economic development; Smallholders; maize; rice; Wheat; Sorghum; millets; Cassava; Sweet potato; soybean; Potato; Tobacco; Groundnuts; Pigeonpea; cowpea; Plantain; Sugarcane; oilseeds; Livestock; Agricultural productivity; crop yield; General Circulation Models GCM; Commodities; Food prices; Education; income; Nutrition; malnutrition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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