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CCAFS East Africa hosted an outcome mapping workshop on 5th – 9th August 2013 for research and development partners engaged in participatory action research (PAR) at the Nyando Climate Smart Village. The objective of the workshop was to map the output-outcome-impact pathways and to build stronger...

A number of farmers in arid and semi arid lands in Kenya are undertaking intensive crop production in greenhouses. Shown here are pictures taken from Kitengela, a semi arid area in Kenya. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) East Africa program is un...

Agricultural, forested, desert and pastures. The many faces of a "landscape", photos from around the world. Please credit accordingly.

As part of ongoing research in East and West Africa, CCAFS spent time in the field in Ghana to determine the challenges that could prevent farmers from adopting climate smart agricultural techniques. Lucy, a farmer in Lawra, Ghana, has enthusiastically adopted composting to increase soil fertilit...

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) East African regional program has selected six sites to test interventions that address risks related to climate change and variability. Featured here is the Lower Nyando, Kenya site, where farmers harvest rain wa...

Enhancing carbon in Ghana's cocoa landscapes by increasing productivity and restoring ecosystems -- Jeffrey Hayward, Rainforest Alliance Meeting global food needs with lower emissions: IPCC report findings on climate change mitigation in agriculture A dialog among scientists, practitioners and fi...

Anette Friis, from the Danish Agriculture and Food Council and coordinator of Farmer's Organisations, talks about the current status of agriculture in the UNFCCC climate change negotiations and the potential outcomes for agriculture at the upcoming climate meeting, COP18, in Doha, Qatar. Anette F...

On October 2013, 22-25, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) theme Linking Knowledge to Action coordinated a Gender Training and Strategizing Workshop, in Nairobi, Kenya. The ambition was to fast-track CCAFS partners and gender-enthusiasts from the f...