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How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to support food security?:

Thornton, Philip K.; Lipper, Leslie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

The purpose of the paper is to identify how climate change affects how we should approach the process of transforming agricultural systems (including crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) to support global food security and poverty reduction in a sustainable way. We also identify...

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Spatial Modeling of Risk in Natural Resource Management

Jones, Peter G.; Thornton, Philip - 2002

"Making decisions in natural resource management involves an understanding of the risk and uncertainty of the outcomes, such as crop failure or cattle starvation, and of the normal spread of the expected production. Hedging against poor outcomes often means lack of investment and slow adoption...

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Ecological economics, an introduction

Thornton, Philip - In: Agricultural Systems 72 (2002) 2, pp. 173-174

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Agricultural research alternatives : William Lockeretz and Molly D. Anderson. University of Nebraska Press, 1993. 239 pp. Price: [pound sign]28[middle dot]50 (hardback). ISBN 0 8032 2901 1

Thornton, Philip - In: Agricultural Systems 52 (1996) 4, pp. 523-524

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Systems-orientated research in agriculture and rural development : Papers from an International Symposium, Montpellier, France, 21-25 November 1994. Edited under the direction of Michel Sebillotte. CIRAD-SAR, Montpellier, France, 1995, pp 1006. Price: not given. ISBN 2 87614 181 7

Thornton, Philip - In: Agricultural Systems 54 (1997) 2, pp. 261-262

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Born from within: Practice and perspectives of endogenous rural development : Edited by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and Ann Long. Van Gorcum, Assen, The Netherlands, 1994. 298 pp. Price: Dfl 49[middle dot]75 (paperback). ISBN 90 232 2893 6

Thornton, Philip - In: Agricultural Systems 53 (1997) 1, pp. 113-114

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Sustainable agriculture in temperate zones : Edited by C. A. Francis, C. B. Flora and L. D. King. John Wiley and Sons, New York and Chichester, 1990. 487 pp. ISBN 0-471-62227-3. Price: [pound sign]55.15 (hardback)

Thornton, Philip - In: Agricultural Systems 36 (1991) 2, pp. 241-242

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Risk in agriculture : Edited by Dennis Holden, Peter Hazell and Anthony Pritchard. The World Bank, Washington DC, 1991, 159 pp. Price: $10-95 (softback). ISBN 0 8213 1965 5.

Thornton, Philip - In: Agricultural Systems 43 (1993) 1, pp. 112-113

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Is it possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in pastoral ecosystems of the tropics?

Reid, Robin; Thornton, Philip; McCrabb, Graeme; Kruska, … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 6 (2004) 1, pp. 91-109

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East African food security as influenced by future climate change and land use change at local to regional scales

Moore, Nathan; Alagarswamy, Gopal; Pijanowski, Bryan; … - In: Climatic Change 110 (2012) 3, pp. 823-844

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