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County Climate Risk Profiles are a key tool to guide climate smart agriculture (CSA) investments and priorities at the county level in Kenya. These documents provide analyses of the underlying causes of vulnerability and on-going and potential climate change adaptation strategies. They also provi...


Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Kenya[Climate Risk Profile for Bomet County. Kenya County Climate Risk Profile Series]Climate Risk Profile for Bomet County. Kenya County Climate Risk Profile Series
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The aim of this report is to examine the problem of changing climate patterns in dry land areas and its effect on rural populations and offer some practical solutions, as input the Conference of Conference of the Parties (COP18) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It h...


Pedrick C[Strategies for Combating Climate Change in Drylands Agriculture: Synthesis of dialogues and evidence presented at the International Conference on Food Security in Dry Lands, Doha, Qatar, November, 2012.]Strategies for Combating Climate Change in Drylands Agriculture: Synthesis of dialogues and evidence presented at the International Conference on Food Security in Dry Lands, Doha, Qatar, November, 2012.

This report summarizes the proceedings of the workshop “Scaling Up Climate Services for Farmers in Africa and South Asia,” held in Saly, Senegal on December 10-12, 2012. The workshop brought together more than 100 experts from 30 countries and roughly 50 institutions to grapple with the challenge...


Tall, ArameJay, A.Hansen, James[Scaling Up Climate Services for Farmers in Africa and South Asia: Workshop Report]Scaling Up Climate Services for Farmers in Africa and South Asia: Workshop Report

Crop growth models play a major role in sustaining the world-wide food security. These models are used to simulate crop growth during the growing season, and the final crop yield at the end of the growing season, given the farmers’ management practices. At a more strategic level, these crop growt...


Droogers, PeterDam, Jos C. vanSimons GVoogt MTerink W[The added value of high-resolution above coarse-resolution remote sensing images in crop yield forecasting: A case study in the Egyptian Nile Delta]The added value of high-resolution above coarse-resolution remote sensing images in crop yield forecasting: A case study in the Egyptian Nile Delta

Improving food security needs appropriate climate related risk management strategies. These include using climate information to guide farm level decision-making. Progress has been made in providing climate services in Tanzania but there are significant gaps with regard to downscaled location spe...


Mahoo HMbungu WYonah IRadeny, Maren A.O.Kimeli, PhilipKinyangi, James[Integrating Indigenous Knowledge with Scientific Seasonal Forecasts for Climate Risk Management in Lushoto District in Tanzania]Integrating Indigenous Knowledge with Scientific Seasonal Forecasts for Climate Risk Management in Lushoto District in Tanzania

Conventional analyses of value chains involving smallholders and the design of interventions that seek to strengthen their role in them often fail to account for important features of value chain performance. Markets, institutional frameworks and business relationships are dynamic, and value chai...


Orr, A.Donovan, J.Stoian, D.[Smallholder value chains as complex adaptive systems: a conceptual framework]Smallholder value chains as complex adaptive systems: a conceptual framework

The results from the baseline survey show that almost all households produce small livestock and livestock products and approximately two-thirds of households produce food crops. More than half produce fish and nearly half produce vegetables. Most of the households producing these products also c...


Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies[Summary of Baseline Household Survey Results: Bagerhat, Bangladesh]Summary of Baseline Household Survey Results: Bagerhat, Bangladesh

Since 2011, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is facilitating a partnership around collective action in seven villages that integrates a science approach to deliver development outcomes in Nyando. The approach is based on a climate-smart village (...


CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security[Responding to climate related risks to address food insecurity in Nyando, Kenya]Responding to climate related risks to address food insecurity in Nyando, Kenya

This workshop report summarizes discussions and recommendations from the workshop on ‘Institutions and Policies for Scaling out Climate Smart Agriculture’ held in Colombo, Sri Lanka between December 2-3, 2013. The workshop brought together 65 participants, including government representatives, sc...


Tyagi, N.K.Joshi, Pramod K.Aggarwal, Pramod K.Khatri-Chhetri, Arun[Institutions and Policies to Scale Out Climate-Smart Agriculture: South-South Exchanges]Institutions and Policies to Scale Out Climate-Smart Agriculture: South-South Exchanges

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