The effect of climate change and variability on agricultural production systems cannot be underestimated especially in rural areas. Farmers more than often experience increased agricultural losses and reduced productivity due to weather vagaries, little or no investment in their farms etc. Rural...
Musembi, Elly Kyalo
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[Demand for agricultural credit by rural smallholder farmers: A case of climate smart agriculture villages in Nyando Basin, Kenya]
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Demand for agricultural credit by rural smallholder farmers: A case of climate smart agriculture villages in Nyando Basin, Kenya
We are pleased to share with you our SmartAg Partner newsletter, highlighting policy
engagement and ongoing research from January to June 2017.
To celebrate international women’s day, we shared how four women farmers from the Nyando
Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) in Kenya are improving their live...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[The SmartAG partner: CCAFS East Africa Bi-annual Newsletter, January - June 2017]
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The SmartAG partner: CCAFS East Africa Bi-annual Newsletter, January - June 2017
Throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), maize production is characterized by low productivity due to the scarce availability and use of external inputs and recurrent droughts exacerbated by climate variability. Within the integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) framework, there is thus a...
Tovihoudji, Pierre G
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Akponikpè, Pierre B.I.
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Adjogboto, Andre
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Djenontin, Jonas A.
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Agbossou, Euloge K.
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Bielders, Charles L.
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[Combining hill-placed manure and mineral fertilizer enhances maize productivity and profitability in northern Benin]
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Combining hill-placed manure and mineral fertilizer enhances maize productivity and profitability in northern Benin
The CSA profile for the Kyrgyz Republic was developed with funding from the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) (see https://www.gfdrr.org/en/who-we-are).
In this article, we discuss the ongoing Data Revolution in relation to climate action in agriculture. Data are highly relevant for climate action, as climate change makes current local knowledge increasingly irrelevant and requires smarter management of agricultural systems. We discuss five dat...
Etten, Jacob van
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Steinke, Jonathan
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Wijk, Mark T. van
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[How can the Data Revolution contribute to climate action in smallholder agriculture?]
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How can the Data Revolution contribute to climate action in smallholder agriculture?
A central claim of community-based adaptation (CBA) is that it increases resilience. Yet, the concept of resilience is treated inconsistently in CBA, obscuring discussion of the limitations and benefits of resilience thinking and undermining evaluation of resilience outcomes in target communities...
Ensor, Jonathan
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Park, Sarah E.
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Attwood, Simon
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Kaminski, Alexander
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Johnson, Johanna
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[Can community-based adaptation increase resilience?]
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Can community-based adaptation increase resilience?
This report summarizes the key highlights from the GCP4 Midterm Workshop and Public Dialogue on Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture in East Africa held at the International Livestock Research Institute from June 12-14 2019, including a field trip held on June 15 2019. The workshop brought together ...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
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Food and Business Knowledge Platform
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[Food & Business Global Challenges Programme GCP4 Midterm Workshop Report]
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Food & Business Global Challenges Programme GCP4 Midterm Workshop Report
BACKGROUND
The GIZ Advisory Service for Agricultural Research and Development (BEAF) in cooperation with GIZ Western Kenya and the Centre for Tropical Agriculture in Nairobi (CIAT) commissioned the Centre for Rural Development (SLE) to carry out this study.
Kenya is a focus country of the Germa...
Schaller, Michaela
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Barth, Elena I.
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Blies, Darinka
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Röhrig, Felicitas
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Schümmelfeder, Malte
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[Scaling out Climate Smart Agriculture: Strategies and Guidelines for Smallholder Farming in Western Kenya]
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Scaling out Climate Smart Agriculture: Strategies and Guidelines for Smallholder Farming in Western Kenya
This The Gambia country CSA profile provides a snapshot of a developing baseline created to initiate discussion, both within countries and globally, about entry points for investing in CSA at scale.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
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International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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[Climate-Smart Agriculture in the Gambia]
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Climate-Smart Agriculture in the Gambia