Philip K Thornton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 135576 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Philip K Thornton |
| PRENOMES | Philip K |
| SOBRENOME | Thornton |
| ASSINATURA | THORNTON P K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | International Livestock Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1854-0182 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 343 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Bundling measures for food systems transformation
Priority areas for investment in more sustainable and climate-resilient livestock systems
Livestock production supports economic growth, jobs and nutrition, but contributes to and is vulnerable to climate change. A transition is thus needed for livestock systems to become more sustainable and climate resilient, with clear positive effects on the Sustainable Development Goals. It is unclear, however, where the global community should invest to support this change. We identified priority geographies for livestock system investments in 1…
Alternative sources of protein for food and feed
Mixed farming systems
Harnessing indigenous knowledge and practices for effective adaptation in the Sahel
The Sahel region of West Africa has experienced some of the most severe multidecadal rainfall variability over the past 50 years. Based on recollections of the past and observations of the present, local communities in the Sahel have developed extensive knowledge and understanding of their environment and climate that enables them to harness ecosystem services to support their livelihoods and survive environmental changes. Recent literature indic…
Covid-19 pandemic lessons for agri-food systems innovation
COVID-19 pandemic lessons for agri-food systems innovation, Christopher B Barrett, Jessica Fanzo, Mario Herrero, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Alexander Mathys, Philip Thornton, Stephen Wood, Tim G Benton, Shenggen Fan, Laté Lawson-Lartego, Rebecca Nelson, Jianbo Shen, Lindiwe Majele Sibanda
Viewpoint
Global food systems are currently facing unprecedented challenges with respect to production and nutritional targets, inclusivity and environmental footprint. Several recent reports highlight the need for major, rapid reconfiguration of our food systems as a result. International publicly funded agricultural research for development will play an increasingly vital role in support of such goals as reducing poverty, improving food and nutrition sec…
Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system
Global rangeland production systems and livelihoods at threat under climate change and variability
Rangelands are one of the Earth’s major ice-free land cover types. They provide food and support livelihoods for millions of people in addition to delivering important ecosystems services. However, rangelands are at threat from climate change, although the extent and magnitude of the potential impacts are poorly understood. Any declines in vegetation biomass and fluctuations in grazing availability would be of concern for food production and ecos…
Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems
How climate change interacts with inequity to affect nutrition
Climate change poses a growing threat to the achievement of optimal nutritional status, both directly through affecting food production and indirectly through altering social and economic influences in people's lives. These adverse nutrition outcomes are not evenly distributed across the world, and vulnerable populations are the most impacted. Understanding how different forms of inequity interact with climate change and adverse nutritional outco…
Multiple cropping systems of the world and the potential for increasing cropping intensity
Multiple cropping, defined as harvesting more than once a year, is a widespread land management strategy in tropical and subtropical agriculture. It is a way of intensifying agricultural production and diversifying the crop mix for economic and environmental benefits. Here we present the first global gridded data set of multiple cropping systems and quantify the physical area of more than 200 systems, the global multiple cropping area and the pot…
Farming Systems and Food Security in Africa
Farming systems
Farming Systems and Food Security in Africa
How much does climate change add to the challenge of feeding the planet this century
The impacts of climate change on crop yields, as projected by a slew of impact assessments carried out since the 1980s, have brought the issue of future food insecurity to the fore. A meta-analysis of ~27,000 data points from studies published over the last four decades reveals that at country level, average impacts of climate change on crop yields up to the 2050s are generally small (but negative) for rice and wheat, and modest for maize, provid…
Is agricultural adaptation to global change in lower-income countries on track to meet the future food production challenge
Agriculture is critical to sustainable development, and agricultural production by smallholders in lower-income countries contributes substantially to the food security of both rural and urban populations. Smallholders face many challenges related to urbanisation, sustainable use of natural resources and climate change. While there will be different ways of achieving sustainable agricultural systems, all will involve adaptation on a massive scale…
Can scenario planning catalyse transformational change? Evaluating a climate change policy case study in Mali
The potential of participatory scenario processes to catalyse individual and collective transformation \nand policy change is emphasised in several theoretical reflections. Participatory scenario \nprocesses are believed to enhance participants’ systems understanding, learning, networking and \nsubsequent changes in practices. However, limited empirical evidence is available to prove these \nassumptions. This study aimed to contribute to this kno…
The climate-smart village approach
Aggarwal, P. K., A. Jarvis, B. M. Campbell, R. B. Zougmoré, A. Khatri-Chhetri, S. J. Vermeulen, A. Loboguerrero, L. S. Sebastian, J. Kinyangi, O. Bonilla-Findji, M. Radeny, J. Recha, D. Martinez-Baron, J. Ramirez-Villegas, S. Huyer, P. Thornton, E. Wollenberg, J. Hansen, P. Alvarez-Toro, A. Aguilar-Ariza, D. Arango-Londoño, V. Patiño-Bravo, O. Rivera, M. Ouedraogo and B. Tan Yen. 2018. The climate-smart village approach: framework of an integrati…
Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use
Background Information about the global structure of agriculture and nutrient production and its diversity is essential to improve present understanding of national food production patterns, agricultural livelihoods, and food chains, and their linkages to land use and their associated ecosystems services. Here we provide a plausible breakdown of global agricultural and nutrient production by farm size, and also study the associations between farm…
Applying the robust adaptation planning (RAP) framework to Ghana’s agricultural climate change adaptation regime
This paper introduces a five-step framework, namely the Robust Adaptation Planning (RAP) framework, to plan and respond to the 'grand challenge' of climate change. RAP combines, under a unified framework, elements from robust action, participatory planning and network theory to capture the different motives, perception, and roles of actors that are important for climate change adaptation. RAP leverages existing structures and networks and involve…
Linking regional stakeholder scenarios and shared socioeconomic pathways
The climate change research community's shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) are a set of alternative global development scenarios focused on mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. To use these scenarios as a global context that is relevant for policy guidance at regional and national levels, they have to be connected to an exploration of drivers and challenges informed by regional expertise. In this paper, we present scenarios for West …
Reducing risks to food security from climate change
Climate change will have far-reaching impacts on crop, livestock and fisheries production, and will change the prevalence of crop pests. Many of these impacts are already measurable. Climate impact studies are dominated by those on crop yields despite the limitations of climate-crop modelling, with very little attention paid to more systems components of cropping, let alone other dimensions of food security. Given the serious threats to food secu…
Connecting Women, Connecting Men
Given the different roles that women and men play in households and communities, strategies to improve food security and build adaptive capacity need to take gender differences into account. In many developing countries, local organizations have a role to play in it. However, the degree to which there is an overlap among the priorities of men, women, and organizations (including non-governmental bodies, local government offices, and other agencie…
How resilient are farming households and communities to a changing climate in Africa? A gender-based perspective
In this paper we examine conditions that underlie vulnerability and resilience possibilities for households and communities that face and respond to climate- and other changes, in nine East and West African countries. We base our analysis on a unique integrated qualitative and quantitative dataset composed of household surveys and village focus group studies carried out across a wide range of environments and agricultural systems. We identify hum…
The fisherly imagination
Challenges to scenario-guided adaptive action on food security under climate change
This paper examines the development and use of scenarios as an approach to guide action in multi-level, multi-actor adaptation contexts such as food security under climate change. Three challenges are highlighted: (1) ensuring the appropriate scope for action; (2) moving beyond intervention-based decision guidance; and (3) developing long-term shared capacity for strategic planning. To overcome these challenges we have applied explorative scenari…
The potential impacts of climate change on maize production in Africa and Latin America in 2055
How resilient are farming households and communities to a changing climate in Africa? A gender-based perspective
In this paper we examine conditions that underlie vulnerability and resilience possibilities for households and communities that face and respond to climate- and other changes, in nine East and West African countries. We base our analysis on a unique integrated qualitative and quantitative dataset composed of household surveys and village focus group studies carried out across a wide range of environments and agricultural systems. We identify hum…
Fragmentation of rangelands
Linking regional stakeholder scenarios and shared socioeconomic pathways
The climate change research community's shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) are a set of alternative global development scenarios focused on mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. To use these scenarios as a global context that is relevant for policy guidance at regional and national levels, they have to be connected to an exploration of drivers and challenges informed by regional expertise. In this paper, we present scenarios for West …
Croppers to livestock keepers
Exploring future changes in smallholder farming systems by linking socio-economic scenarios with regional and household models
Livestock, livelihoods and the environment
Can scenario planning catalyse transformational change? Evaluating a climate change policy case study in Mali
The potential of participatory scenario processes to catalyse individual and collective transformation \nand policy change is emphasised in several theoretical reflections. Participatory scenario \nprocesses are believed to enhance participants’ systems understanding, learning, networking and \nsubsequent changes in practices. However, limited empirical evidence is available to prove these \nassumptions. This study aimed to contribute to this kno…
Spatial variation of crop yield response to climate change in East Africa
The fisherly imagination
Sustainable intensification
The ‘sustainable intensification’ (SI) approach and ‘climate-smart agriculture’ (CSA) are highly complementary. SI is an essential means of adapting to climate change, also resulting in lower emissions per unit of output. With its emphasis on improving risk management, information flows and local institutions to support adaptive capacity, CSA provides the foundations for incentivizing and enabling intensification. But adaptation requires going be…
Coping Strategies in Livestock-dependent Households in East and Southern Africa
Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems
Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
Integrated Modeling and its Potential for Resolving Conflicts between Conservation and People in the Rangelands of East Africa
Multiple cropping systems of the world and the potential for increasing cropping intensity
Multiple cropping, defined as harvesting more than once a year, is a widespread land management strategy in tropical and subtropical agriculture. It is a way of intensifying agricultural production and diversifying the crop mix for economic and environmental benefits. Here we present the first global gridded data set of multiple cropping systems and quantify the physical area of more than 200 systems, the global multiple cropping area and the pot…
The climate-smart village approach
Aggarwal, P. K., A. Jarvis, B. M. Campbell, R. B. Zougmoré, A. Khatri-Chhetri, S. J. Vermeulen, A. Loboguerrero, L. S. Sebastian, J. Kinyangi, O. Bonilla-Findji, M. Radeny, J. Recha, D. Martinez-Baron, J. Ramirez-Villegas, S. Huyer, P. Thornton, E. Wollenberg, J. Hansen, P. Alvarez-Toro, A. Aguilar-Ariza, D. Arango-Londoño, V. Patiño-Bravo, O. Rivera, M. Ouedraogo and B. Tan Yen. 2018. The climate-smart village approach: framework of an integrati…
Integrating diverse methods to understand climate–land interactions in East Africa
Is agricultural adaptation to global change in lower-income countries on track to meet the future food production challenge
Agriculture is critical to sustainable development, and agricultural production by smallholders in lower-income countries contributes substantially to the food security of both rural and urban populations. Smallholders face many challenges related to urbanisation, sustainable use of natural resources and climate change. While there will be different ways of achieving sustainable agricultural systems, all will involve adaptation on a massive scale…
Applying the robust adaptation planning (RAP) framework to Ghana’s agricultural climate change adaptation regime
This paper introduces a five-step framework, namely the Robust Adaptation Planning (RAP) framework, to plan and respond to the 'grand challenge' of climate change. RAP combines, under a unified framework, elements from robust action, participatory planning and network theory to capture the different motives, perception, and roles of actors that are important for climate change adaptation. RAP leverages existing structures and networks and involve…
Priority areas for investment in more sustainable and climate-resilient livestock systems
Livestock production supports economic growth, jobs and nutrition, but contributes to and is vulnerable to climate change. A transition is thus needed for livestock systems to become more sustainable and climate resilient, with clear positive effects on the Sustainable Development Goals. It is unclear, however, where the global community should invest to support this change. We identified priority geographies for livestock system investments in 1…
Connecting Women, Connecting Men
Given the different roles that women and men play in households and communities, strategies to improve food security and build adaptive capacity need to take gender differences into account. In many developing countries, local organizations have a role to play in it. However, the degree to which there is an overlap among the priorities of men, women, and organizations (including non-governmental bodies, local government offices, and other agencie…
Analysis of trade-offs in agricultural systems
Trade-off analysis has become an increasingly important approach for evaluating system level outcomes of agricultural production and for prioritizing and targeting management interventions in multifunctional agricultural landscapes. We review the state-of-the-art for trade-off analysis, assessing different techniques by exploring a concrete example of trade-offs around the use of crop residues in smallholder farming systems. The techniques for pe…
Climate change, agriculture and food security
Food and Agriculture Organization
The eleventh session of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAQ) was held in Rome on November 4–24, 1961, under the chairmanship of Mr. Georges Hraoui (Lebanon). The Conference had before it the Director-General's report, The State of Food and Agriculture 1961 . The Conference endorsed the general analysis of the situation and outlook presented in this document. There was general agreement as to the importance of raising the …
Spatial Modeling of Risk in Natural Resource Management
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 of new methods. At the household level, production instability can have serious effects on income and food security. At the national level, it can have soci…
The potential impacts of climate change on maize production in Africa and Latin America in 2055
Locating poor livestock keepers at the global level for research and development targeting
Is it possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in pastoral ecosystems of the tropics
Cultivation and Conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
Integrated Modeling and its Potential for Resolving Conflicts between Conservation and People in the Rangelands of East Africa
Integrating diverse methods to understand climate–land interactions in East Africa
Coping Strategies in Livestock-dependent Households in East and Southern Africa
Carbon sequestration and farm income in West Africa
Croppers to livestock keepers
Fragmentation of rangelands
Spatial variation of crop yield response to climate change in East Africa
The impacts of climate change on livestock and livestock systems in developing countries
Livestock, livelihoods and the environment
Smart Investments in Sustainable Food Production
Farmers in mixed crop-livestock systems produce about half of the world’s food. In small holdings around the world, livestock are reared mostly on grass, browse, and nonfood biomass from maize, millet, rice, and sorghum crops and in their turn supply manure and traction for future crops. Animals act as insurance against hard times and supply farmers with a source of regular income from sales of milk, eggs, and other products. Thus, faced with pop…
Livestock production
The livestock sector globally is highly dynamic. In developing countries, it is evolving in response to rapidly increasing demand for livestock products. In developed countries, demand for livestock products is stagnating, while many production systems are increasing their efficiency and environmental sustainability. Historical changes in the demand for livestock products have been largely driven by human population growth, income growth and urba…
Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
Using Coupled Simulation Models to Link Pastoral Decision Making and Ecosystem Services
Boone, R. B., K. A. Galvin, S. B. BurnSilver, P. K. Thornton, D. S. Ojima, and J. R. Jawson. 2011. Using coupled simulation models to link pastoral decision making and ecosystem services. Ecology and Society 16(2): 6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04035-160206
Climate change, agriculture and food security
Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems
Significance This report is unique in presenting a high-resolution dataset of biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions by global livestock. This information will allow the global-change research community in enhancing our understanding of the sustainability of livestock systems and their role in food security, livelihoods and environmental sustainability.
Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture
Clearer understanding is needed of the premises underlying SI and how it relates to food-system priorities.
Implications of regional improvement in global climate models for agricultural impact research
Global climate models (GCMs) have become increasingly important for climate change science and provide the basis for most impact studies. Since impact models are highly sensitive to input climate data, GCM skill is crucial for getting better short-, medium- and long-term outlooks for agricultural production and food security. The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) phase 5 ensemble is likely to underpin the majority of climate impact ass…
Analysis of trade-offs in agricultural systems
Trade-off analysis has become an increasingly important approach for evaluating system level outcomes of agricultural production and for prioritizing and targeting management interventions in multifunctional agricultural landscapes. We review the state-of-the-art for trade-off analysis, assessing different techniques by exploring a concrete example of trade-offs around the use of crop residues in smallholder farming systems. The techniques for pe…
Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions
Significance The livestock sector contributes significantly to global warming through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. At the same time, livestock is an invaluable source of nutrition and livelihood for millions of poor people. Therefore, climate mitigation policies involving livestock must be designed with extreme care. Here we demonstrate the large mitigation potential inherent in the heterogeneity of livestock production systems. We find that e…
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