De nombreux pays en Afrique ont intégré
l’utilisation des engrais, la gestion de la fertilité
des sols et les intrants agricoles dans leurs
contributions déterminées au niveau national à
l’Accord sur le climat de Paris. Bien
que les engrais azotés (N) contribuent dans une
large mesure aux émissi...
Richards, Meryl
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Ittersum, Martin K. van
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Mamo, Tekalign
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Stirling, Clare M.
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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[Fertilizers and low emission development in sub-Saharan Africa]
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[Engrais et développement sobre en carbone en Afrique subsaharienne]
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Engrais et développement sobre en carbone en Afrique subsaharienne
In the context of rapid and unprecedented environmental change, there is growing emphasis amongst the scientific community to engage in policy processes and realise societal outcomes in addition to generating new knowledge. But, how can science-policy engagement efforts be delivered? What are the...
Dinesh, Dhanush
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Downing, Clare
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[Stepping up science-policy engagement to tackle environmental change: Methods and examples for achieving policy impact]
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Stepping up science-policy engagement to tackle environmental change: Methods and examples for achieving policy impact
Providing climate and weather services to help farmers plan production operations (e.g. select varieties, determine planting dates) is an important approach to climate-smart agriculture (CSA). These services refer to a broad set of information and products that help farmers understand the impacts...
World Agroforestry Centre
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[Delivering climate information to rural households: Forecasts and capacity building]
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Delivering climate information to rural households: Forecasts and capacity building
Billions of dollars have already been invested in CSA programs, with even more spending planned in coming years. These programs aim to help smallholder farmers increase productivity while also adapting to and mitigating climate change. Measuring the impacts of these programs, however, has proved ...
World Agroforestry Centre
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[Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)]
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Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)
CSA programs aim to help smallholder farmers increase productivity while also building resilience and mitigating climate change. Agroforestry—the integration and use of trees in crop fields, farms and across agricultural landscapes—can support CSA in many ways, including: building resilience by b...
Recientes investigaciones presentadas en
un seminario en París, coorganizado por
el Programa de Investigación de CGIAR en Cambio
Climático, Agricultura y Seguridad Alimentaria
(CCAFS), el Consejo Internacional de Ciencias
Sociales (CICS) y Future Earth, dieron lugar a cinco
recomendaciones de pol...
Huyer, Sophia
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Koningstein, Manon
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Ashby, Jacqueline A.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[Apoyo a las mujeres agricultoras en un clima cambiante: cinco lecciones de políticas]
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Apoyo a las mujeres agricultoras en un clima cambiante: cinco lecciones de políticas
Key messages
- Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) in the agricultural sector can be elements in the pathway to food security, green growth and sustainable development.
- NAMAs can provide additional resources for climate-smart agriculture, where multiple benefits, including adaptat...
Hänsel G
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[Paving the way for nationally appropriate mitigation actions in the agricultural sector]
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Paving the way for nationally appropriate mitigation actions in the agricultural sector
Overview of Integrated Manure Management
Integrated Manure Management is the optimal handling of livestock manure from collection, through storage and treatment up to application (crops and aquaculture). Through this process it is possible to prevent nutrient losses to a large extent under the si...
Teenstra E
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Andeweg, K.
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Vellinga, T.
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[Manure helps feed the world: Integrated Manure Management demonstrates manure is a valuable resource]
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Manure helps feed the world: Integrated Manure Management demonstrates manure is a valuable resource
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women has been ratified by more countries than any other UN convention (Gabizon, 2016). The United Republic of Tanzania is one such country that hopes to fully utilize its human resources, both men and women, for socio-econo...
In Kenya, agriculture is a key driver of economic growth and social development. The agriculture sector directly contributes about 28% of Kenya’s gross domestic product (GDP), and accounts for 65% of the total export earnings. The crop and livestock sub-sectors contribute approximately 78% and 20...
Amwata, Dorothy
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Mungai, Catherine
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Solomon, Dawit
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[Review of policies and frameworks on climate change, agriculture, food and nutrition security in Kenya]
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Review of policies and frameworks on climate change, agriculture, food and nutrition security in Kenya