Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

Nitrogen management policies introduced in the past decades by some OECD countries have succeeded in reducing excess nitrogen use by farmers, but half of global mineral fertiliser use is still lost for crops. While about half of OECD countries have nutrient surpluses of between 25-50 kg N per...

Land grabbing appears to be driven by a variety of factors that seem destined to expand in the long term. The aim of this paper is to highlight the behavior and the role of China (a net food importer country) and India (which is facing a problem of energy insecurity) in the current escalation of...

Climate change induced vulnerability is a complex and dynamic phenomenon, which attracted the attention of researchers and policy makers in the recent past. This paper aims to provide a systematic bibliometric review (1991 to 2021) on vulnerability analysis to climate change, mainly covering the...

Climate change is a serious concern affecting the wheat production prospects. In the recent past, yield sensitivity to climatic variables has been noticed and it has to be addressed in the perspective of climate smart farming. The present study has tracked the perception of farmers on climate...

The study identified and prioritized the climate induced gender specific vulnerability of the selected households pursuing crop and dairy enterprises in the three villages, one each from Karnal, Yamunanagar and Sirsa districts of Haryana, adopted under the Technology Demonstration Component of...

The paper presents a method for assessing the economic impact of on-farm application of technology that causes reduction in greenhouse gasses emission. The proposed method takes into account the incomplete depreciation of technical means used under conditions of crop and animal production...

In this working paper, the biophysical factors and socio-economic conditions that led to Land Use and Land Cover Changes (LULC) and land degradation in Burkina Faso are reviewed. It is found that the country is densely populated and population continues to rise at a rate of more than 3% a year....

The Sahel is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change in the world. Located in the central part, Niger is facing many complex and interconnected challenges which strongly hinder the achievement of the key sustainable development goals (SDGs). The high population growth rate (3.8% per...

This review report involves the analysis and synthesis of literatures on climate change, land use, energy, livelihoods and sustainable development in Nigeria. The methodology employed in the review involves searching keywords related to the study objectives on relevant literature search engines...