outbreaks with drought incidence and severity, we show that this causality is valid also for Somalia at the local level. We find … that livestock price shocks drive drought-induced conflicts through reducing the opportunity costs of conflict … aggravate Somalia's security challenges and calls for decisive action to strengthen both drought and conflict resilience …

dryness and drought during different steps of the vegetation period and extreme heat in the blooming period lead to … considerable losses. In total the calculated sum of losses due to dryness, drought and heat are estimated to approximately 40 Mio …

Climate change is altering the growing conditions for agriculture in Germany. At the very least since the drought years …

Regarding the sustainable supply of platform chemicals for the organic chemistry, residual biomass resources are coming … into focus as a carbon source. This study is concerned with the conversion of biomass to platform chemicals using a … thermochemical biorefinery based on torrefaction with superheated steam. The following separation processes are also included in the …

with special attention to biomass and multi-product crops for Poland. The potential to boost production of bioelectricity … of the bioelectricity sector will have to be based on biomass crops explicitly grown for energy purposes. The competition … between agriculture and biomass for scarce land remains limited, given the availability of relatively poor land types and …

biomass supply and of heat demand limits the potentials of CHP production. This paper assesses CHP potentials using a mixed … are modeled as a function of heat demand densities, which can differ substantially. Gasification of biomass in a combined … locations of plants are clustered around big cities in the East of Austria. At current power prices, biomass based CHP …

With the shift from petroleum-based to biomass-based economies, global biomass demand and trade is growing. This trend … voluntary certification standards to ensure that biomass is sustainably produced, food security aspects are hardly addressed as … adequate Food (RtaF), which is applicable in over 100 countries, can be ensured in local biomass production and in …