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On 6 June 2015 the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) organized a side event at UNFCCC SBSTA Climate Change Conference in Bonn to share evidence and experience in addressing the impact of climate change and variability on smallholder farming, and solut...

In response to the need for improving livelihoods of small-holder farmers in Nyando, a collaborative action research project was initiated by ILRI, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agricultural Technology (JKUAT), and the CCAFS partners on the ground. The project aims to efficiently and sustainably in...

On 28 and 29 January 2015 Farmers from CCAFS climate-smart villages and the wider Makueni region, attended the two farmer field days organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), East Africa and other partners working in Makueni. Farmers learned...

Visit to farmer villages outside of Dodoma, Tanzania. The area is very dry and rough, feeling the impact of an increasingly variable rain and temperature increases. Feel free to use. Photo: C. Schubert (CCAFS)

From July 21th to 25th, delegates from Kenya, Senegal and Ghana visited Colombia in a South-South exchange, learning from the experience of Colombia in adapting to climate change. Photos: J.L.Urrea (CCAFS)

Regional stakeholders from governments, development organizations, civil society and academia came together from 25 to 27 June in Entebbe, Uganda for a workshop that focused on scenario-guided policy analysis on the future of development, food security and the environment under climate change in ...

In June of 2014, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) together with CARE trained and tested an upcoming Participatory Action Research Manual collecting valuable gender and social information about farmers. The manual is targeting researchers and deve...

A partnership was developed between the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and local smallholder farmers to undertake a participatory evaluation and promotion of inte...

CCAFS-CIMMYT scientists are undertaking experiments to quantify greenhouse gas emissions from smallholder agriculture systems, in Karnal, Haryana. Researchers from CIMMYT and the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) have brought out a guideline of protocols to standardize the methodolo...

Visit to the Nyando Climate Smart Villages with journalists from the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation to document ongoing climate change adaptation and mitigation work. Photos: V. Atakos (CCAFS)