Toward climate-resilient development in Nigeria (Record no. 655)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780821399231
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 338.9669CER
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Personal name Cervigni,Raffaello.
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Title Toward climate-resilient development in Nigeria
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Washington, D.C
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. The World Bank
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2013
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Extent xxii,188p.:ill.
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General note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary, etc. If not addressed in time, climate change is expected to exacerbate Nigeria's current vulnerability to weather swings and limit its ability to achieve and sustain the objectives of Vision 20:2020 [as defined in http://www.npc.gov.ng /home/doc.aspx?mCatID=68253]. The likely impacts include: ? A long-term reduction in crop yields of 20-30 percent ? Declining productivity of livestock, with adverse consequences on livelihoods ? Increase in food imports (up to 40 percent for rice long term) ? Worsening prospects for food security, particularly in the north and the southwest ? A long-term decline in GDP of up to 4.5 percent The impacts may be worse if the economy diversifies away from agriculture more slowly than Vision 20:2020 anticipates, or if there is too little irrigation to counter the effects of rising temperatures on rain-fed yields. Equally important, investment decisions made on the basis of historical climate may be wrong: projects ignoring climate change might be either under- or over-designed, with losses (in terms of excess capital costs or foregone revenues) of 20-40 percent of initial capital in the case of irrigation or hydropower. Fortunately, there is a range of technological and management options that make sense, both to better handle current climate variability and to build resilience against a harsher climate: ? By 2020 sustainable land management practices applied to 1 million hectares can offset most of the expected shorter-term yield decline; gradual extension of these practices to 50 percent of cropland, possibly combined with extra irrigation, can also counter-balance longer-term climate change impacts. ? Climate-smart planning and design of irrigation and hydropower can more than halve the risks and related costs of making the wrong investment decision. The Federal Government could consider 10 short-term priority responses to build resilience to both current climate variability and future change through actions to improve climate governance across sectors, research and extension in agriculture, hydro-meteorological systems; integration of climate factors into the design of irrigation and hydropower projects, and mainstreaming climate concerns into priority programs, such as the Agriculture Transformation Agenda."
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Sustainable development -Nigeria.
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