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ReviewNature food2024

Resilient livelihoods in Africa's pastoral-agropastoral transition zones will increasingly depend on heat stress adaptation and systemic change.

Philip Thornton, Mario Herrero, Gerald Nelson, Dianne Mayberry

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Review in Nature food, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Philip ThorntonDepartment of Global Development, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. p.thornton@cgiar.org.ORCID 0000-0002-1854-0182
Mario HerreroCornell Atkinson Centre for Sustainability and Department of Global Development, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7741-5090
Gerald NelsonUniversity of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3626-1221
Dianne MayberryCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1584-8066

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pastoral-agropastoral transition zones across the African continent are projected to face crop production difficulties due to climate change. A greater emphasis on livestock production may be an appropriate response in some places. Here we explore how heat stress may impact livestock productivity and human work capacity. While adaptations can alleviate some of the challenges related to heat stress, data-driven, systemic changes and multi-stakeholder participation are needed to accommodate the complex socio-economic factors involved in shaping a vision for pastoral and agropastoral food systems and to enact local-and effective-change.

Indexed as

Climate ChangeHeat-Shock ResponseLivestockAdaptation, PhysiologicalAfricaAgricultureAnimal HusbandryAnimalsHot TemperatureHumans

Identifiers

PMID39587364

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