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Agriculture is central to Kenya’s economic development, constituting 28% of the country’s GDP and accounting for 65% of total export earnings. The crop, livestock, and fishery sub-sectors contribute approximately 78%, 20%, and 2% to the agricultural GDP, respectively. The sector employs more than...

CGIAR and partner scientists met in Cancun, Mexico, with the purpose to advance science on climate change adaptation and mitigation, according to the scope of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food security (CCAFS). The objectives of the workshop were to (1) understand...

Los escenarios socioeconómicos se enfocan específicamente en analizar y luego mejorar las condiciones institucionales, que permiten o restringen la adaptación e implementación de medidas de mitigación por parte de CCAFS y sus socios. Por lo tanto, los escenarios ofrecen una actividad altamente co...

The Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE), a policy research and advocacy think-tank based in Uganda was approached to help organize a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) on power brokering in the climate change sector in Uganda. The objective of Date 30th August 2010 Start time 9:...

2011 was the first year of operation of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). CCAFS brings together the work of all 15 international Centres in the CGIAR, and is a joint programme between the CGIAR and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP). 201...

The CCAFS South Asia Climate-Smart Agriculture Learning Platform is a quarterly newsletter that features research highlights and field stories from CCAFS’ work in the South Asia region. In this edition, you can learn how CCAFS is working with the Agriculture Insurance Company in India to improve ...

The CCAFS South Asia Climate-Smart Agriculture Learning Platform is a quarterly newsletter that features research highlights and field stories from CCAFS’ work in the South Asia region. In this edition, read about how our train-the -trainer workshops have resulted in more women leaders becoming a...

Women and men differ, that much is obvious. But many of the ways in which society treats men and women differently – such as division of labour, access to credit, decision-making power, ownership of land, opportunities for education and many others – are social constructs rather than biological f...

The agricultural sector will be hit hard by climate change. More than 265 million people are facing a five percent decrease in growing season duration in the next 40 years due to an increasingly variable and hotter climate sweeping across the globe. Climate change will affect all four aspects of ...

Knowledge about future weather conditions, such as when the rains will fall and for how long, is crucial for farmers’ decision-making. In sub-Saharan Africa, 95% of farmland is rainfed agriculture. Persistent events such as drought and prolonged rainfall can spell disaster, which is why being abl...