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The CCAFS Regional Program for Southeast Asia (CCAFS-SEA) organized a convergence meeting involving CGIAR CCAFS focal persons and selected partners on 11-13 December 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand. About 24 participants from collaborating CGIAR Consortium Centers (Bioversity, CIAT, CIP, ICRISAT, IFPRI...

La prévision des précipitations saisonnières peut aider les agriculteurs à s’adapter au changement climatique et à améliorer leur résilience face aux chocs climatiques. Le programme de recherche du CGIAR sur le changement climatique, l’agriculture et la sécurité alimentaire (CCAFS) en collaborati...

Seasonal rainfall forecasts can help farmers adapt to climate change and improve their resilience to climate shocks. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) collaborated with the Senegalese National Meteorological Agency (ANACIM) to develop climate info...

Efforts to ensure the use of CCAFS climate science and site-­‐specific Climate-­‐Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices in the Rainforest Alliance voluntary certification scheme and in impact investment approaches implemented by Root Capital began in 2015. The project leverages existing smallholder va...

CCAFS scientists at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the International Livestock Research institute (ILRI) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), provided inputs into the development of Kenya’s Climate-Smart Agri...

In 2014, India began the implementation of its National Food Security Act, which was signed into a law in 2013. The new law aims to provide subsidised food grains to more than 800 million people in the country. While this law will have obvious implications to the food security of the Indian popul...

Climate services are highly practical tools, improving farmer decision-making and strengthening their ability to cope with increased climate variability and extreme weather events. By providing climate advisories and weather forecasts, these services enhance farmers’ capacity to deal with risk. T...

CIMMYT’s research has informed the agenda of maize breeding programs in sub-­‐Saharan Africa, to ensure that new varieties developed will be tolerant to heat stress as well as drought. CIMMYT’s climate projections for maize-­‐producing areas in sub-­‐Saharan Africa highlighted the increasing prev...

CCAFS Climate-Smart Villages (CSV) have successfully combined global knowledge with local action to help farmers sustainably produce more food, while curbing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing resilience to climate change. In CSVs farmers and researchers test and implement portfolios of clim...

This report by CCAFS and CIMMYT highlights some early evidence from Climate-Smart Villages in Haryana. It gives an overview of the adoption of climate smart agriculture in Karnal district of Haryana. Climate Smart Villages are sites where farmers, researchers, and local government partners and th...