Farmers rarely apply CSA technologies in isolation and there is a strong demand for evidence about which bundles of practices work together to enhance outcome performance. The ERA database brings together thousands of African CSA studies giving us
unprecedented power to explore trade-offs when bu...
Steward, Peter
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Lamanna, Christine
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[Bundles of Joy? Using the ERA database to explore the outcomes of CSA practice interactions]
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Bundles of Joy? Using the ERA database to explore the outcomes of CSA practice interactions
However, the prevailing narrative suggests an endless search for inclusive business models that support a transition towards climate-smart agriculture (CSA). Our approach is a literature review of business models and CSA and qualitative fieldwork with four business models in Southern Africa to in...
Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Lubberink, Rob
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Gondwe, Sera
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Manyise, Timothy
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Dentoni, Domenico
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[The private sector is already creating climate-smart value]
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The private sector is already creating climate-smart value
Initial and sustained use of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) often hinges on the economic costs, benefits and risks of the new management practice, as well as farmer’s socio-economic endowments. However, data showing the economic performance of CSA is rarely presented. Incomplete or missing infor...
Nowak, Andreea
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Namoi, Nictor
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Lamanna, Christine
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Steward, Peter
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[Does climate-smart agriculture make economic sense to farmers? Yes, and there's more evidence than you think]
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Does climate-smart agriculture make economic sense to farmers? Yes, and there's more evidence than you think
Implementation of CSA technologies is seen as a cornerstone of improving agricultural productivity and resilience in Africa – so why is adoption so low? Many factors, both internal and external influence a farmer’s decisions.
Arslan, Aslihan
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Floress, Kristin
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Lamanna, Christine
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Lipper, Leslie
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Asfaw, Solomon
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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[Barriers to adoption of improved agricultural technologies. A metanalysis for Africa.]
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Barriers to adoption of improved agricultural technologies. A metanalysis for Africa.
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), in collaboration with the CGIAR Research
Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) invites
scientists and development actors to submit applications for publication of book
chapter in an open-access book investigating obstacles to sc...
Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Girvetz, Evan H.
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Nowak, Andreea
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[The ‘CSA Papers’: Call for Book Chapter Proposals]
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The ‘CSA Papers’: Call for Book Chapter Proposals
The African Union-New Partnership for African Development
(AU-NEPAD) has set a goal of 25 million farming families
practicing Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) by 2025 (Vision
25x25). This Vision 25x25 came out of the African Union
Leaders “Malabo Declaration” of 2014 that set a path forward
for Af...
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...