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Talking to Kenyan farmer Emily Marigu on adaptation and mitigation to climate change. Emily has adapted to the changing climate through crop diversification by including sweet potatoes. These have now become even more important for her than her staple crops beans and maize.

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and their Gene Bank. Photo: P. Casier (CGIAR). Please creadit appropriately.

Photo: P. Casier (CGIAR). Please credit appropriately

CCAFS participated at the 2010 conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change, The Hague, Netherlands.

Adapting to climate change in Burkina Faso. Farmers need to change the way they farm and how they hold livestock. The farmers shown in this batch have all included creative ways in order to adapt to the changes in the unpredictable weather.

Pictures are from meeting with innovative farmer Joel Yiri, Jirapa Village in Ghana. He started developing his plot of land by using manure from his pigs when he realized the soil had become infertile. He is also serious about keeping a record of all input costs and revenues, meaning that he now ...

Mali, Cinzana Village. Photo: P. Casier (CGIAR). Please credit appropriately.

Anastacia Muthoni tells the crew of the videoseries 'Farmer Testimonials' how the climate has changed in Kenya and how she is now struggling to find and get sufficient water to harvest enough for her family. The weather has really changed in Kenya the last few years, she says.

This event provided an opportunity to dialogue on the appropriate policy and financing mechanism to scale-up the adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices in defined farming systems in Africa. The event built on experiences drawn from “supporting preparation of country CSA programs ...