Climate research has steadily identified that public responses to the impacts associated with climate change are locally adjusted. These mostly shaped by prevailing socio-cultural knowledge systems underpinned resilience thinking in face of and adversity. Despite increasing scientific policy attention peoples’ perceptions climatic changes adaptive responses, there is still a lag more detailed p...

The influence of positive selection sweeps in human evolution is increasingly debated, although our ability to detect them is hampered by inherent uncertainties in the timing of past events. Ancient genomes provide snapshots of allele frequencies in the past and can help address this question. We combine modern and ancient genomic data in a simple statistic (DAnc) to time allele frequency chang...

Climate change is expected to lead more frequent and severe fluvial flood events in Northern Europe. Nature Based Solutions are increasingly recognised as a natural insurance against risks vulnerable areas. This requires collaboration at landscape scale between providers beneficiaries of control. In particular, mechanisms incentivise owners land could potentially offer cost-effective ways reduc...

Local knowledge can be a strategy for coping with extreme events and adapting to climate change. In Mexico, change projections suggest the urgency of promoting local adaptation policies strategies. This paper provides an assessment actions based on coffee farmers in southern Mexico. The strategies include collective individual that have established. To determine their viability impacts, carbon ...

Research has proven that, at a national scale in Cameroon, arable crop production is either declining or stagnant. In the face of these trends, governments, local and international organizations, communities and peasant farmers have developed adaptation options to sustain arable production and reduce poverty. Given this general context, and based on population perceptions and four study sites i...

Can farmers change micro-climates around their crops as an adaptation to climate change? We present a novel adaptation technique for pistachio growers in California, meant to deal with warm winters. A kaolin clay mud is sprayed on dormant trees, blocking sunlight and lowering tree bud temperatures, preventing adverse yield effects of low chill. Climate predictions for California suggest that wi...

Consensus is growing that agriculture is vulnerable to climate change and adaptation responses are necessary to minimize impacts. Nonetheless, the diversity of potential impacts, agro-ecological contexts and regional capacity for change make understanding adaptation behaviors challenging and ensure that climate change adaptation will not be the same across all contexts. Considering this heterog...

Climate change is high on the science and policy agenda of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), requiring context-specific adaptation. Studies endogenous cultural institutions (ECIs) in climate adaptation are fragmented, impeding orientation. This suggests need for complementary evidence ECIs to inform practice. Through a sample 158 households rural Cameroon, we contribute bridge this gap, by: (1) explori...

The objectives of this study are (i) to develop the Recommended Technology Adoption Index (RTAI), and (ii) to determine the relationship between socio-economic characteristics of the farmers which affect the technology adoption level of Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum). The average technology adoption index of study area was 0.72 with minimum 0.46 and maximum of 0.89 and the correlation betwee...