This paper discusses the key information needs to reduce the negative impacts of weather variability and climate change on land degradation and food security, and identifies the opportunities and barriers between the information and services needed. It suggests that vulnerability assessments base...
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Baethgen, Walter E.
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Cooper, Peter J.M.
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Gommes R
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Lee B
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Meinke H
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Rathore LS
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Sivakumar MVK
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[Managing climatic risks to combat land degradation and enhance food security: key information needs]
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Managing climatic risks to combat land degradation and enhance food security: key information needs
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is widely promoted as an approach for reorienting agricultural development under the realities of climate change. Prioritising research-for-development activities is crucial, given the need to utilise scarce resources as effectively as possible. However, no framewo...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Whitbread, Anthony M.
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Baedeker, Tobias
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Cairns, Jill E.
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Claessens, Lieven
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Baethgen, Walter E.
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Bunn, Christian
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Friedmann, Michael
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Giller, Ken E.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Howden, Mark
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Kilcline, Kevin
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Nangia, Vinay
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Kumar, Shalander
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West, Paul C.
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Keating, Brian
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[A framework for priority-setting in climate smart agriculture research]
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A framework for priority-setting in climate smart agriculture research
One of the main challenges of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is finding ways to promote the adoption at scale (Editor’s note: 'scaling', 'at scale' or 'to scale' are used throughout this article to mean ‘scaling-out’) of CSA practices and technologies. Climate services and insurance can constit...
Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Hansen, James
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Baethgen, Walter E.
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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[Climate services and insurance: scaling climate smart agriculture]
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Climate services and insurance: scaling climate smart agriculture