This booklet presents some of the emerging stories of success of climate-smart agriculture technologies and practices that are positively changing the lives of smallholder farmers across East Africa. They were selected from a portfolio of climate-smart agriculture interventions and have potential...
Recha, John W.M.
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Kimeli, Philip
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Atakos, Vivian
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Mungai, Catherine
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[Stories of Success: Climate-Smart Villages in East Africa]
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Stories of Success: Climate-Smart Villages in East Africa
The changing climate is a threat to the smallholder farmers. Poverty and limited livelihood options increase vulnerability to climate risks. To counter this, a partnership between research and development organizations and the Nyando rural community developed Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) model t...
Recha, John W.M.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Kinyangi, James
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Kimeli, Philip
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[Uptake of Resilient Crop Interventions to Manage Risks Through Climate-Smart Villages Approach in Nyando, Western Kenya]
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Uptake of Resilient Crop Interventions to Manage Risks Through Climate-Smart Villages Approach in Nyando, Western Kenya
This progress report summarizes the CSA practices, technologies and services implemented and/ or evaluated in 2017 across the CCAFS Climate-Smart villages network
Bonilla Findji, Osana
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Bui Tan Yen
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Castellanos, A
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Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
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Kimeli, Philip
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Martínez, J.
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Ortega, Luis A.
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Ouédraogo, M.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Recha, John W.M.
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[CSA practices implemented and evalauted across the CSV network in 2017]
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CSA practices implemented and evalauted across the CSV network in 2017
Recha, John W.M.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Kinyangi, James
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Kimeli, Philip
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Atakos, Vivian
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Lyamchai, Charles
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Ngatoluwa R
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Sayula, George
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[Climate-smart villages and progress in achieving household food security in Lushoto, Tanzania]
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Climate-smart villages and progress in achieving household food security in Lushoto, Tanzania
Increasing weather risks threaten agricultural production systems and food security across the world. Maintaining agricultural growth while minimizing climate shocks is crucial to building a resilient food production system and meeting developmental goals in vulnerable countries. Experts have pro...
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Jarvis, Andy
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Sebastian, Leocadio S.
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Kinyangi, James
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Bonilla Findji, Osana
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Recha, John W.M.
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Huyer, Sophia
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Hansen, James
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Álvarez Toro, Patricia
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Aguilar-Ariza, Andrés
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Arango-Londoño, David
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Patiño-Bravo, Victor
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Rivera, Ovidio
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Ouédraogo, Mathieu
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Yen, Bui Tan
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[The climate-smart village approach: framework of an integrative strategy for scaling up adaptation options in agriculture]
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The climate-smart village approach: framework of an integrative strategy for scaling up adaptation options in agriculture
This progress report summarizes the key results from the CSV monitoring undertaken in 2018 in the Hoima Climate-Smart village (Uganda). It focuses on the levels of CSA implementation and gender-disaggregated perceived effects of CSA practices on households livelihoods and gender dimensions
Agricultural landscapes must provide food, fiber and energy to
a growing population in a changing climate, while potentially
serving as instruments for climate change mitigation. Agriculture
is the backbone of the Kenyan economy, contributing approximately
25% of the GDP annually and employing mo...
Shames, Seth
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Heiner, Krista
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Kapukha, Martha
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Wekesa, Amos
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Recha, John W.M.
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[Scaling up Sustainable Agriculture Land Management in Bungoma County, Kenya]
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Scaling up Sustainable Agriculture Land Management in Bungoma County, Kenya
Collective action has led to increased agricultural investments, and provided an avenue for dissemination of climate-smart technologies. Cereal–legume intercrop innovations offer farmers multiple benefits that contribute to increased farm resilience, greater food security and better incomes. Far...
Recha, John W.M.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Kimeli, Philip
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Atakos, Vivian
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Kisilu, Rachel
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Kinywee, Julius
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[Building adaptive capacity and improving food security in semi-arid Eastern Kenya]
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Building adaptive capacity and improving food security in semi-arid Eastern Kenya