Climate change is projected to have serious impacts on the agriculture of southern Africa, affecting
food availability, creating local production shortfalls and resulting in rising commodity prices. This
report highlights the risks to agriculture and food systems that may occur in two counties of...
Vergage, Fabian
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Cramer, Laura
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Climate risk assessment and agricultural value chain prioritisation for Malawi and Zambia]
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Climate risk assessment and agricultural value chain prioritisation for Malawi and Zambia
This paper identifies sixteen cases of large-scale actions in the agriculture and forestry sectors that have adaptation and/or mitigation outcomes, and distils lessons from the cases. The cases cover policy and strategy development (including where climate-smart objectives were not the initial ai...
Cooper, Peter J.M.
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Cappiello S
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Kinyangi, James
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[Large-scale implementation of adaptation and mitigation actions in agriculture]
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Large-scale implementation of adaptation and mitigation actions in agriculture
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an approach to address the interlinked challenges of food
security and climate change, and has three objectives: (1) sustainably increasing agricultural
productivity, to support equitable increases in farm incomes, food security and development;
(2) adapting and...
Dinesh, Dhanush
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Frid-Nielsen, Snorre
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Norman, James
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Mutamba, M
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Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Is Climate-Smart Agriculture effective? A review of selected cases]
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Is Climate-Smart Agriculture effective? A review of selected cases
New agricultural development pathways are required to meet climate change adaptation and mitigation needs in the food systems of low-income countries. A research and policy agenda is provided to indicate where innovation and new knowledge are needed. Adaptation requires identifying suitable crop ...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Wassmann, Reiner
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Rosswall, T.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Hellin, J.
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Jarvis, Andy
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Challinor, Andrew J.
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Snook, L.K.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Kinyangi, James
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[Setting the agenda: Climate change adaptation and mitigation for food systems in the developing world]
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Setting the agenda: Climate change adaptation and mitigation for food systems in the developing world
This paper explores whether crop genetic engineering can contribute to addressing food security, as well as enhancing human nutrition and farming under a changing climate. The review is based on peer-refereed literature, using results to determine the potential of this gene technology. It also pr...
Ortiz, R.
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Jarvis, Andy
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Fox, P
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Plant genetic engineering, climate change and food security]
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Plant genetic engineering, climate change and food security
The impacts of a warming world are affecting food production in every corner of the globe. From shifting rainfall patterns and growing seasons, to more frequent and extreme droughts and floods, to increasingly severe pest and disease outbreaks among crops and livestock, farming as we know it is u...
Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Birch, James
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Meza, Laura
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Sunga, Ishmael
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Bong, Bui Ba
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Rabbinge, Rudy
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Reddy, Matthew
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Dinesh, Dhanush
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Korner, Jana
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Millan, Alberto
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Hansen, James
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Huyer, Sophia
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture]
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Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture
Hills, T.
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Pramova, E.
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Noble, A.D.
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Weight, Elizabeth
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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McCartney, Matthew P.
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[A monitoring instrument for resilience]
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A monitoring instrument for resilience
This document describes a monitoring instrument for efficiently tracking changes in resilience
in agricultural initiatives.
Operationalizing the concept of resilience (i.e. the ability to withstand change, stresses and shocks)
poses significant challenges for project managers, particularly when r...
Hills T
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Pramova E
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Noble, A.D.
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Weight, Elizabeth
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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McCartney, Matthew P.
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[A Monitoring Instrument for Resilience]
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A Monitoring Instrument for Resilience
Faced with the triple challenges of achieving food security, adapting to the impacts of climate
change, and reducing emissions, agriculture has been prioritized by countries as a sector for
climate action. The national process of formulating and implementing National Adaptation
Plans, which gives...
Dinesh, Dhanush
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Bonilla Findji, Osana
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Richards, Meryl
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[10 best bet innovations for adaptation in agriculture: A supplement to the UNFCCC NAP Technical Guidelines]
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10 best bet innovations for adaptation in agriculture: A supplement to the UNFCCC NAP Technical Guidelines
The CCAFS Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI) Strategy is an update of the CCAFS 2012
Gender Strategy. The new strategy addresses gender as well as social inclusion for different
social groups while bearing in mind that women are central to agriculture in developing
countries. The CCAFS approach to...
Huyer, Sophia
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Hill, Catherine
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[CCAFS Gender and Social Inclusion Strategy]
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CCAFS Gender and Social Inclusion Strategy