The CSA Prioritization Framework, developed by CCAFS-CIAT, provides a process for targeting investment towards best-bet CSA options in a given context. The Framework does this by identifying existing and promising CSA practices, assessing the tradeoffs between practices using indicators of CSA an...
This progress report summarizes the key results from the CSV monitoring undertaken in 2018. It focuses on the levels of CSA implementation in the 4 LAM Climate-Smart villages (Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua) and gender-disaggregated perceived effects of CSA practices on households li...
This progress report focuses on the development of GeoFarmer (V1). It describes how we adapted the GeoCitizen application framework and developed new user interfaces as GeoFarmer, for the purpose of using it in the agricultural development projects, and more specific, for the monitoring and evalu...
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) seeks to meet three challenges: improve the adaptation capacity of agricultural systems to climate change, reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of these systems, and ensure local and global food security. Many CSA assessment methods that consider these three challen...
Acosta-Alba, Ivonne
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Chia, Eduardo
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Andrieu, Nadine
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[The LCA4CSA framework: Using life cycle assessment to strengthen environmental sustainability analysis of climate smart agriculture options at farm and crop system levels]
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The LCA4CSA framework: Using life cycle assessment to strengthen environmental sustainability analysis of climate smart agriculture options at farm and crop system levels
The Climate-Smart Village Multilevel Monitoring Framework developed by CCAFS consists of a set of 44 robust and standard indicators at household and at farm level, covering the Productivity/Food Security, the Adaptation and the Mitigation pillar of CSA and a friendly ICT-based data collection ins...
Bonilla Findji, Osana
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Bejarano, Gustavo
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Andrieu, Nadine
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[Status of CSA adoption and related impact on farming communities across 8 CSV implementing the CSV monitoring plan in 2018]
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Status of CSA adoption and related impact on farming communities across 8 CSV implementing the CSV monitoring plan in 2018
Agricultural productivity and growth in Mali are under threat from erratic rainfall, resulting in more frequent dry years. The national economy is vulnerable to climate change due to 50% of the gross domestic product coming from the agricultural sector and 75% of the population living in rural ar...
Andrieu, Nadine
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Sogoba, Bougouna
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Howland, Fanny Cecile
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Samake, O.
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Bonilla Findji, Osana
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Lizarazo, Miguel
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Nowak, Andreea
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Dembele, C.
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Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin
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[Prioritizing investments for climate-smart agriculture: Lessons learned from Mali]
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Prioritizing investments for climate-smart agriculture: Lessons learned from Mali
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach to help agricultural systems worldwide, concurrently addressing three challenge areas: increased adaptation to climate change, mitigation of climate change, and ensuring global food security – through innovative policies, practices, and financing. It...
This progress report summarizes the key results from the CSV monitoring undertaken in 2018 in the Hoima Climate-Smart village (Uganda). It focuses on the levels of CSA implementation and gender-disaggregated perceived effects of CSA practices on households livelihoods and gender dimensions