On June 18 2012, in connection to the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and partners hosted the 4th Agriculture and Rural Development Day at the SulAmerica Convention Center in central Rio. The purpose of ARDD ...
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[4th Agriculture and Rural Development Day, 18 June 2012]
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4th Agriculture and Rural Development Day, 18 June 2012
On June 21, the Danish government hosted a side event at Rio+20 titled "Sustainable, Incluive Growth: The Way Forward from Rio+20 and G20". The aim of the session was to address the challenge of speed-to-scale in securing green and inclusive growth called for by the Secretary-General's ...
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, East Africa in partnership with the Ministry of Water and Environment, Climate Change Unit in Uganda, brought together players in the agricultural and environment sectors to discuss ways of taking forward the implementat...
The CSA Prioritization Framework, developed by CCAFS-CIAT, provides a process for targeting investment towards best-bet CSA options in a given context. The Framework does this by identifying existing and promising CSA practices, assessing the tradeoffs between practices using indicators of CSA an...
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[Second workshop of climate-smart agriculture prioritization framework in Guatemala]
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Second workshop of climate-smart agriculture prioritization framework in Guatemala
These photos were taken during the plenary session on "Green Growth and Climate-Smart Agriculture" during the World Bank's 2012 Sustainable Development Forum on "Green Growth for All" held in Washington, D.C.
Participants at an East African Scenarios workshop discuss how climate change and food security might unfold in the region to 2030. Photo: Andrew Ainslie.
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[East African Regional Scenarios Workshop]
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East African Regional Scenarios Workshop
These photos have been featured on the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Facebook page 'Cgiar Climate' as 'Photo of the week' paired with a relevant blogstory from CCAFS blog
On January 25-27, CCAFS, together with United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Institute for Rural Economy of Mali (IER), the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and other regional partners engaged in a workshop aimed at discussing the methodolog...
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[Climate information workshops in Mali]
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Climate information workshops in Mali
This validation workshop brought together stakeholders to look through Kenya’s Climate-Smart Agriculture program result areas. Photo: V. Atakos (CCAFS)
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[Kenya Climate-Smart Agriculture program validation workshop.]
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Kenya Climate-Smart Agriculture program validation workshop.
Many governments in South Asia have focused their agricultural policies on increasing agricultural production to meed food security, with few of them including mitigation into their agricultural sector. While opportunity exists for reducing Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture, the em...
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[Low Carbon Development Workshop, New Delhi India]
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Low Carbon Development Workshop, New Delhi India