At the Paris climate summit in 2015, the World Business Council on Sustainable
Development (WBCSD) announced a set of 2030 ambitions under the three pillars of climate
smart agriculture (CSA), namely productivity, resilience and mitigation. Based on work under
WBCSD’s workstream to improve busi...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Frid-Nielsen, Snorre
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[Measuring Progress Towards the WBCSD Statement of Ambition on Climate-Smart Agriculture: Improving Businesses’ Ability to Trace, Measure and Monitor CSA]
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Measuring Progress Towards the WBCSD Statement of Ambition on Climate-Smart Agriculture: Improving Businesses’ Ability to Trace, Measure and Monitor CSA
This learning brief is part of a series to capture the process, progress and lessons from CCAFS in its endeavor to plan, implement and deliver research outcomes. Since the last of these learning
notes was published1, the process for finalizing the impact pathways (IPs) was considerably simplified...
Schuetz, Tonya
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Förch, Wiebke
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, L.
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Hansen, James
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Jarvis, Andy
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Coffey, Kevin
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Bonilla Findji, Osana
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Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Sebastian, Leocadio S.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Kinyangi, James
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Moussa, Abdoulaye S.
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Sajise, A.
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Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
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Richards, Meryl
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Jost, Christine
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Jay, A.
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[Learning Brief: Lessons in Theory of Change from a Series of Regional Planning Workshops]
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Learning Brief: Lessons in Theory of Change from a Series of Regional Planning Workshops
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
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
The food system today is destroying the environment upon which future food production depends.
While the food system generates enough food energy for our population of over 7 billion it does not deliver adequate and affordable nutrition for all. About half the global population is inadequately or...
Garnett, Tara
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Appleby, M.C.
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Balmford, A.
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Bateman, I.J.
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Benton, T.G.
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Bloomer, P.
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Burlingame, B.
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Dawkins, M.
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Dolan, L.
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Fraser, D.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Hoffmann, I.
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Smith, Pete
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Toulmin, C.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Godfray, H. Charles J.
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[What is a sustainable healthy diet? A discussion paper]
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What is a sustainable healthy diet? A discussion paper
Agricultural research for development has made important contributions to poverty reduction and food security
over the last 40 years. Nevertheless, it is likely that both the speed of global change and its impacts on natural and
socio-economic systems are being under-estimated. Coupled with the m...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Schuetz, Tonya
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Förch, Wiebke
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Cramer, Laura
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Abreu, David
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Responding to global change: A theory of change approach to making agricultural research for development outcome-based]
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Responding to global change: A theory of change approach to making agricultural research for development outcome-based
Improving smallholder agricultural systems is central to achieving climate-smart agriculture (CSA). This module focuses on local-level institutions and their role in facilitating the adoption of climate-smart agricultural strategies. The module demonstrates the importance of local institutions fo...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Gordes, A.
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Sessa, R.
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Braimoh, A.K.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[Module 12: Local institutions]
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Module 12: Local institutions
What are wicked problems? The example of agriculture under climate change. What do we know about tackling wicked problems? How can these principles and tools be applied to management of science in the CGIAR?
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[How can sustainability science achieve impact for wicked problems such as climate change?]
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How can sustainability science achieve impact for wicked problems such as climate change?
Global warming will have far-reaching consequences for agriculture that will dispropotionately affect poor and marginalized groups who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and have a lower capacity to adapt. Sustainable food security in a world of growing population and changing dieats is ...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Hansen, James
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Jarvis, Andy
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[How can we feed nine billion people while reducing GHG emissions?]
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How can we feed nine billion people while reducing GHG emissions?
Climate change will have far-reaching impacts on crop, livestock and fisheries production, and will change the prevalence of crop pests. Many of these impacts are already measurable. Climate impact studies are dominated by those on crop yields despite the limitations of climate-crop modelling, wi...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin
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Girvetz, Evan H.
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Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Sebastian, Leocadio S.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Reducing risks to food security from climate change]
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Reducing risks to food security from climate change