This brief summarizes preliminary findings and recommendations from an ongoing review of literature and CCAFS experience on gender-related challenges in empowering smallholder farming communities through climate services.
Huyer, Sophia
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Hansen, James
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Rose, Alison
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Vaughan, Catherine
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Huysen, Tiff van
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[What we know about gender and rural climate services: Preliminary findings and guidance]
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What we know about gender and rural climate services: Preliminary findings and guidance
Climate change is expected to increase the risk from extreme climate events, such as drought, flooding and heat waves, in much of the developing world (IPCC 2012, 2014). Extreme events erode farmers’ livelihoods through loss of productive assets, while the uncertainty associated with climate vari...
Hansen, James
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Rose, Alison
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Hellin, Jonathan
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[Prospects for scaling up the contribution of index insurance to smallholder adaptation to climate risk]
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Prospects for scaling up the contribution of index insurance to smallholder adaptation to climate risk
Many opportunities to improve agricultural resilience to a variable and changing climate depend on access to high-quality local climate records and are constrained by data gaps. Addressing data quality of meteorological station observations. The ENACTS approach builds capacity of a National Mete...
Dinku, Tufa
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Hansen, James
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Rose, Alison
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Damen, Beau
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Sheinkman, Michael
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[Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) approach to support climate resilience in agriculture.]
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Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) approach to support climate resilience in agriculture.