Mitigating drought impacts in drylands quantifying the potential for strengthening crop- and livestock-based livelihoods / Federica Carfagna, Raffaello Cervigni, and Pierre Fallavier, editors.
| Other author | Carfagna, Federica. |
| Other author | Cervigni, Raffaello. |
| Other author | Fallavier, Pierre. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Washington, DC : World Bank Group, [2018] |
| Description | xix, 83 pages : maps ; 26 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Abstract | Drylands account for three-quarters of Sub-Saharan Africa's cropland, two-thirds of cereal production, and four-fifths of livestock holdings. Today frequent and severe shocks, especially droughts, limit the livelihood opportunities available to millions of households and undermine efforts to eradicate poverty in the drylands. Prospects for sustainable development of drylands are assessed in this book through the lens of resilience, understood here to mean the ability of people to withstand and respond to droughts and other shocks. An original model was developed expressly to consistently and coherently evaluate different type of interventions on the ground, which provided a common framework to anticipate the scale of the challenges likely to arise in drylands, as well as to generate insights into opportunities for addressing those challenges. Such modeling framework consisted in a) estimating the baseline vulnerability profiles of people living in drylands (2010), b) estimate the evolution of vulnerability by 2030 under a range of assumptions, c) calculate the number of people affected by drought in the different administrative units of each country, and d) evaluate different types of interventions in agriculture and livestock for mitigating drought impact by calculating the potential for reducing the number of people affected for each scenario and conducting a simplified benefit/cost analysis for each type of intervention. For livestock, simulation models were used to estimate the impacts of feed balances, livestock production, and household income resilience interventions under different climate scenarios. For agriculture, the DSSAT (Decision Support System for·Agrotechnology Transfer) framework was used to assess the potential impact on yields likely to result from adoption of five crop farming technologies: (1) drought-tolerant varieties, (2) heat-tolerant varieties, (3) additional fertilizer, (4) agroforestry practices, (5) irrigation (6) water-harvesting techniques and selected combinations thereof. |
| General note | "A World Bank study." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019286001 |
| ISBN | 1464812268 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781464812262 paperback |
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