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Measurement of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture activity requires expensive equipment and human resources to proceed on a continuous basis and to provide annual and seasonal emission estimates. Also, estimation of spatial-temporal distribution of agricultural emissions using field data is...

Farmers are often not able to quickly access and adopt new crop varieties that are developed and tested by scientists. Biodiversity International, supported by CCAFS, is working with farmers to evaluate crop varieties as part of the ‘Seeds for Needs’ project. This project aims to expose local far...

Desde el año 2010 el equipo ha construido escenarios regionales para el Este y Oeste de Africa, Sur y Sudeste de Asia, América Central y los países Andinos. Recientemente se ha concentrado en ayudar a los funcionarios gubernamentales a desarrollar sus propios escenarios con el fin de mejorar polí...

The University of Aberdeen and CCAFS are developing a simple tool for practitioners to quickly identify and compare mitigation options for agriculture. The CCAFS-MOT tool takes account of current farming practices and growing conditions to suggest a wide range of mitigation options. The Excel-bas...

A CCAFS-supported project led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and undertaken in collaboration with African partners, is exploring the relationship between changing weather patterns and agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa. Published as a set of three books, t...

Climate variability affects food security directly, as a result of failed or bumper harvests, and indirectly, for example when flash flooding damages a road vital for access to markets. To what extent does climate variability figure in the decision-making that underpins plans to cope with threats...

In the early 2000s, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) started developing a tool to capture key factors of farming systems in standardized, quantitative data sets, ready to feed into models. Their product, the Integrated Modelling Platform for Mixed Animal-Crop Systems (IMPACT)...

A pilot project in Honduras thwarts the recent epidemic of coffee leaf rust while also empowering women and supporting low-emission agriculture. Women farmers get access to small plots of land to plant with disease-resistant coffee and tree crops. The land and seedlings are paired with fuel-effic...