Better soil health can increase agricultural productivity. Restoration activities can build on-farm resilience and contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Land and soil health surveys can improve crop modeling predictions under various climate scenarios and guide more targeted in...
Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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Mwongera, Caroline
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Läderach, Peter
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Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Lamanna, Christine
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Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi
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Shikuku, K.M.
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Twyman, Jennifer
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[Invest in climate-smart soil and land health]
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Invest in climate-smart soil and land health
The process of getting climate-smart agricultural (CSA) interventions and practices to farmers is just as important as the interventions and practices.
Given the complex systems in which CSA is implemented and the various CSA practices and technologies, there is no one-size-fits-all scaling path...
Mwongera, Caroline
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Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi
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Läderach, Peter
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Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Lamanna, Christine
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Shikuku, K.M.
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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[Target the pathways to scale out climate-smart agricultural technologies to farming communities]
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Target the pathways to scale out climate-smart agricultural technologies to farming communities
Recognizing successful climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices is not enough for them to be adopted at scale.
At many sites, government or development-led interventions to promote CSA practices face low adoption rates or are not adopted at all.
Data shows that CSA adoption depends on drivers...
Läderach, Peter
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Mwongera, Caroline
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Lamanna, Christine
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Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi
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Shikuku, K.M.
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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[Know what drives the adoption of climate-smart agriculture across different scales]
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Know what drives the adoption of climate-smart agriculture across different scales
Research suggests that farmer-to-farmer learning can be up to six times more effective in spreading knowledge of CSA practices than in areas where it is not carried out.
Understanding the wider context and requirements for social learning is key.
Peer learning is an effective way to disseminate C...
Shikuku, K.M.
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Mwongera, Caroline
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Läderach, Peter
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Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Lamanna, Christine
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Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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[Support farmer-to-farmer and community-wide social learning]
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Support farmer-to-farmer and community-wide social learning
Research suggests that gender equity is a critical factor in the adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices.
If gender is not explicitly considered in climate-related interventions, the adoption of climate-resilient practices is unlikely to reach scale.
Climate-resilient interventio...
Twyman, Jennifer
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Mwongera, Caroline
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Läderach, Peter
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Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Lamanna, Christine
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Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi
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Shikuku, K.M.
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Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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[Design climate-smart agricultural interventions to be gender inclusive]
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Design climate-smart agricultural interventions to be gender inclusive
Using socio-economic scenarios in policy formulation allows for an anticipatory approach to governance processes and the formulation of policies/plans that take into account future uncertainty To fully benefit from the dividends of scenario planning in the Ugandan context, there is need to build ...
Rutting, Lucas
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Tumuhereze, Martin
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Muchunguzi, Perez
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Acosta, Mariola
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Okiror, John Francis
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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[Scenario-guided policy planning in Uganda]
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Scenario-guided policy planning in Uganda
The agricultural sector is central to Tanzania’s economy, natural resources and livelihoods. Climate change and climate variability presents adverse effects to the growth of the agriculture sector and the livelihoods of 80 percent of Tanzanians (MAFC, 2014). Owing to this, the Tanzania government...
More than twenty years have passed since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, where gender mainstreaming was acknowledged as an indispensable global strategy for achieving gender equality. Since then, Tanzania has undoubtedly made efforts in mainstreaming gender in its national policies and stra...
Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Okolo, Wendy
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Jassogne, Laurence T.P.
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[Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in Tanzania: A Gender Policy Review]
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Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in Tanzania: A Gender Policy Review
Key messages: Participants in policy processes require constant communication and networking among stakeholders to be able to exploit the available policy windows. The review process requires a dynamic and engaging tool. The robustness of a review tool is one step toward having a good and fruitfu...
Muchunguzi, Perez
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Acosta, Mariola
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Rutting, Lucas
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Tumuhereze, Martin
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Mwongera, Caroline
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Okiror, John Francis
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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[Scenario guided policy planning: processes, comparisons, and lessons from East Africa]
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Scenario guided policy planning: processes, comparisons, and lessons from East Africa
Research shows that climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is beneficial in increasing productivity, promoting resilience and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Achieving benefits in all three dimensions is difficult, and so necessary choices among competing investments and objectives must be made.
The ...
Mwongera, Caroline
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Läderach, Peter
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Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Lamanna, Christine
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Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi
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Shikuku, K.M.
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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[Assess whole-farm trade-offs and synergies for climate-smart agriculture]
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Assess whole-farm trade-offs and synergies for climate-smart agriculture