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Niger’s population is highly dependent on agriculture but faces constant risks aggravated by climate change. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) West Africa Program set up the Kampa Zarma Climate-Smart Village (CSV) in Niger to test climate-smart ag...

Identification and assessment of agricultural practices and technologies to enhance productivity in a sustainable manner, food security and resilience, considering the differences in agro-ecological zones and farming systems, such as different grassland and cropland practices and systems.

Providing climate information services to the most vulnerable communities remains a challenge. To overcome this challenge, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) together with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), set up Local Techn...

Appropriate technological solutions together with empowering social environment are the basic requirements for ensuring food and livelihood security under the emerging scenario of growing climate risks. Studies by various scientists (Farnworth et. al., 2017; Das et. al., 2015; Chayal et. al., 201...

As a contribution to the CCAFS project “Developing, adapting, and targeting portfolios of climate-smart agricultural practices for sustainable intensification of smallholder and vulnerable farming systems in South Asia” this project highlights two stories describing the Lessons Learnt on Developi...

As a follow-up to discussions with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development ( MARD) about the effects of drought in the South Central Coast (SCC) region, and particularly in light of the impact of the 2014-16 ENSO, CCAFS organized a team to contribute to the development of climate-smart ...

Climate change has been projected to change the geography of cocoa production in Peru unless production practices are adapted to novel conditions. Climate change impacts are site specific and each household has a different set of assets and constraints. This study provides a climate hazard based ...

This Benin country CSA profile provides a snapshot of a developing baseline created to initiate discussion, both within countries and globally, about entry points for investing in CSA at scale.

Afin de satisfaire le besoin d’options avérées et efficaces d’AIC, le CCAFS a élaboré l’approche du village intelligent face au climat (CSV) comme moyen pour la recherche agricole pour le développement (AR4D) dans le contexte des changements climatiques. Cette approche vise à combler les déficits...

“We are here to make a breakthrough in climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies,” announced Ato Dejene Abesha, Secretariat Coordinator for the Rural Economic Development and Food Security (RED&FS) Sector Working Group at the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), at the kick-off of the CSA Platform M...