When it comes to “future-proofing” farming activities, it’s time to
mainstream soil health into efforts to make farming more resilient to
the impacts of climate change. This entails assessing which agricultural
practices preserve and rehabilitate the soil, while leaving a minimal climate
footprin...
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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[CIAT and Germany in Western Kenya: uniting for impact]
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CIAT and Germany in Western Kenya: uniting for impact
En el año 2012, la empresa privada de lácteos Alquería lanzó su primer programa piloto de capacitación a pequeños productores de leche: MACA. Así se le bautizó en ese momento pues la zona de prueba inicial del piloto fue en los municipios cercanos a la serranía de la Macarena en el Meta, Colombia...
Triana Ãngel, Natalia
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Ariza Aya, Mauricio
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[Juventud ganadera, motor para el cambio: alianzas estratégicas con la empresa privada (CIAT/CCAFS-Alquería): Nacimiento, motivaciones y objetivos de la iniciativa Herederos de Tradición llevada a cabo por Alquería dentro de sus programas de Formación Campesina]
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Juventud ganadera, motor para el cambio: alianzas estratégicas con la empresa privada (CIAT/CCAFS-Alquería): Nacimiento, motivaciones y objetivos de la iniciativa Herederos de Tradición llevada a cabo por Alquería dentro de sus programas de Formación Campesina
The brief tackles how the Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture (AMIA) Program of the Philippines’ Department of Agriculture (DA) served as a platform for supporting local actions for climate resilient agriculture. The document discusses a number of key lessons emerging from the AMI...
Using groundwater for agricultural production has the potential to build resilience in food insecure regions of the world. Use of groundwater can boost agricultural production, improve rural incomes and strengthen farmers’ ability to withstand climate shocks and water variability. However, for gr...
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
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[Building resilience through sustainable groundwater use]
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Building resilience through sustainable groundwater use
Shah, Manisha
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Verma, Shilp
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Bharti
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[Reviving minor irrigation in Telangana: midterm assessment of Mission Kakatiya]
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Reviving minor irrigation in Telangana: midterm assessment of Mission Kakatiya
How to transform rural communities and farmer associations in Africa into modern and competitive enterprises, while preserving cooperative principles? How to develop democratic and farmerowned cooperatives that can also boost agri-business?
40% of agricultural commodities produced in the Europe...
This brief presents the results of research on the conservation and sustainable use of rice diversity in Bangladesh and how the rice varieties used and planted are intrinsically linked to religious festivals, food culture, land morphology and the climate that shape rice farming/cropping in this r...
Akhter, F.
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Khatun, A.
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Khatun, F.
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Islam, R.
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Mostafa, G.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Rice diversity and the joy of eid]
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Rice diversity and the joy of eid
The Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) approach, designed by the University of Reading (UoR), focuses on improving farmers' livelihood and resilience against the effect of climate change. It provides farmers with accurate, locally specific climate and weather inform...
Nenkam, Andrée M
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Ouédraogo, Mathieu
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Traoré, Bouba
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Moctar, Dicko M
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Traoré, Sibiry
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Kassogué, Issa
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Zemadim, Birhanu
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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[Scaling up climate services for agriculture in Mali Initial findings from piloted implementation of PICSA approach in Africa RISING project intervention zone, southern Mali]
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Scaling up climate services for agriculture in Mali Initial findings from piloted implementation of PICSA approach in Africa RISING project intervention zone, southern Mali
This brief summarizes the results of participatory workshops and research on the implementation of CSC in Central America. Many of the practices proposed are already known to and used by Central American farmers seeking to reduce the risks for both the quality and quantity of their production. Th...
Bunn, Christian
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Fernández Kolb, Pablo
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Wiegel, Jennifer
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Guharay, Falguni
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Hurtado, Ninoska
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Lundy, Mark
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Castro-Llanos, Fabio
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[Climate-smart Cocoa in Central America and the Caribbean]
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Climate-smart Cocoa in Central America and the Caribbean
A seed fair is an activity to create awareness about and appreciate local crop diversity, exchange seed and related knowledge, and celebrate farmers’ efforts to conserve agrobiodiversity. It takes considerable time and effort to organize a seed fair. This brief describes the seed fair organized a...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Shrestha, P.
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Gauchan, D.
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Bhusal, A.
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Gurung, R.
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Pudasaini, N.
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Community Seed Banks Association of Nepal
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[Let us conserve and exchange seeds: celebrating traditional crop diversity of the Nepali lowlands]
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Let us conserve and exchange seeds: celebrating traditional crop diversity of the Nepali lowlands