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Nancy McCarthy
Researcher at International Food Policy Research Institute
Publications - 97
Citations - 5713
Nancy McCarthy is an academic researcher from International Food Policy Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agriculture & Collective action. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 91 publications receiving 4942 citations. Previous affiliations of Nancy McCarthy include University of California, Berkeley & CGIAR.
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Climate-smart agriculture for food security
Leslie Lipper,Philip K. Thornton,Philip K. Thornton,Bruce M. Campbell,Bruce M. Campbell,Tobias Baedeker,Ademola K. Braimoh,Martin Bwalya,Patrick Caron,Andrea Cattaneo,Dennis Garrity,Kevin Henry,Ryan Hottle,Louise E. Jackson,Andy Jarvis,Andy Jarvis,Fred Kossam,Wendy Mann,Nancy McCarthy,Alexandre Meybeck,Henry Neufeldt,Thomas Remington,Pham Thi Sen,Reuben Sessa,Reynolds Shula,Austin Tibu,Emmanuel Torquebiau +26 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline a set of CSA actions needed from public, private and civil society stakeholders: building evidence; increasing local institutional effectiveness; fostering coherence between climate and agricultural policies; and linking climate and agriculture financing.
Food security and food production systems
John R. Porter,Liyong Xie,Andrew J. Challinor,Kevern L. Cochrane,S. Mark Howden,Muhammad Iqbal,David B. Lobell,Maria I. Travasso,Netra Chhetri,Karen A. Garrett,John Ingram,Leslie Lipper,Nancy McCarthy,Justin M. McGrath,Daniel R. Smith,Philip K. Thornton,James E. M. Watson,Lewis H. Ziska +17 more
TL;DR: The questions for this chapter are how far climate and its change affect current food production systems and food security and the extent to which they will do so in the future.
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Methods for studying collective action in rural development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss ways of conceptualizing collective action to provide researchers from various disciplines with a basic framework for understanding and studying collective action and highlight specific features of collective action that are relevant to identify best practice methodological approaches and research techniques.
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Adoption and intensity of adoption of conservation farming practices in Zambia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the determinants of farmer adoption of conservation farming practices using panel data from two rounds of the Rural Incomes and Livelihoods Surveys that were implemented in 2004 and 2008.
Managing mobility in African rangelands.
TL;DR: In Africa, livestock mobility enables opportunistic use of resources and helps minimize the effects of droughts as discussed by the authors, which is one way pastoralists manage uncertainty and risk and access a range of markets.