Climate change is projected to have serious impacts on the agriculture of southern Africa, affecting
food availability, creating local production shortfalls and resulting in rising commodity prices. This
report highlights the risks to agriculture and food systems that may occur in two counties of...
Vergage, Fabian
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Cramer, Laura
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Climate risk assessment and agricultural value chain prioritisation for Malawi and Zambia]
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Climate risk assessment and agricultural value chain prioritisation for Malawi and Zambia
Agricultural production systems in East Africa are mainly rain-fed and highly vulnerable to climate change and variability. Moreover, the smallholder subsistence production base increases the vulnerability of the agricultural sector in East Africa to climate risks. The frequency and severity of c...
Nzuma, JM
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Kinyangi, James
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Cramer, Laura
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[A review of agricultural, food security, food systems and climate change adaptation policies, institutions and actors in East Africa]
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A review of agricultural, food security, food systems and climate change adaptation policies, institutions and actors in East Africa
We apply a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature to assess constraining and enabling
factors to the uptake of medium- to long-term climate information in a wide range of sectoral
investment and planning decisions. Common applications of climate information are shown to
relate to adaptatio...
Jones, Lindsey
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Champalle, Clara
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Chesterman, Sabrina
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Cramer, Laura
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Crane, Todd A.
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[Identifying constraining and enabling factors to the uptake of medium- and long-term climate information in decision making]
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Identifying constraining and enabling factors to the uptake of medium- and long-term climate information in decision making
En las últimas décadas la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en América Latina y el Caribe se ha fortalecido, pasando de un 14.7% de población afectada por el hambre en 1990 a un 5.5% en 2014 (FAOSTAT, 2016), cumpliendo con la meta del hambre de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio. Sin embar...
In recent decades, food and nutrition security in Latin America and the Caribbean has strengthened, decreasing the number of the population affected by hunger from 14.7% in 1990 to 5.5% in 2014 (FAOSTAT, 2016), meeting the hunger goal of the Millennium Development Goals. However, climate change, ...
Cramer, Laura
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Huyer, Sophia
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Lavado, Angela
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Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Nyasimi, Mary
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Thomas, Timothy S.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Etten, Jacob van
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Wijk, Mark T. van
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[Métodos propuestos para evaluar el impacto potencial del cambio climático sobre la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en Centroamérica y la República Dominicana]
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Métodos propuestos para evaluar el impacto potencial del cambio climático sobre la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en Centroamérica y la República Dominicana
Agricultural research for development has made important contributions to poverty reduction and food security
over the last 40 years. Nevertheless, it is likely that both the speed of global change and its impacts on natural and
socio-economic systems are being under-estimated. Coupled with the m...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Schuetz, Tonya
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Förch, Wiebke
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Cramer, Laura
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Abreu, David
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Responding to global change: A theory of change approach to making agricultural research for development outcome-based]
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Responding to global change: A theory of change approach to making agricultural research for development outcome-based
In 2011, CCAFS carried out baseline surveys (household survey, a village study and an organizational survey) in 21 research sites across 17 countries within its five focus regions, using standardized baseline tools in each site. Seven years after the implementation of the baseline studies, the CC...
Ouédraogo, Mathieu
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Houessionon, Prosper
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Partey, Samuel
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Cramer, Laura
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Jasaw, Godfred S.
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Saaka, Buah
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Riba, Alex
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Barahona, Carlos
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[CCAFS midline synthesis report - Ghana (GH0108)]
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CCAFS midline synthesis report - Ghana (GH0108)
Decision makers in developing countries need evidence of the impacts climate change is having and will continue to have on agriculture and food systems as well as knowledge on how to design better policies to deal with such impacts. Research for development scientists are generating this evidence...
Cramer, Laura
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Dinesh, Dhanush
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Jat, Mangi Lal
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Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
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Laderach, Peter
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Ouédraogo, Mathieu
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Partey, Samuel
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Totin, Edmond
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Vasileiou, Ioannis
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Veeger, Marieke
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[Lessons on bridging the science-policy divide for climate change action in developing countries]
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Lessons on bridging the science-policy divide for climate change action in developing countries
Do CCAFS’ climate data and tools contribute to development outcomes?
The production of International PublicGoods (IPGs) – such as high quality, easy to use climate data and tools – is part of CGIAR CCAFS’ delivery promise. With CCAFS’ transition to a results-based management approach there is an ...
Rassmann, Kornelia
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Schuetz, Tonya
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Cramer, Laura
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[Exploring and developing effective evaluative approaches for evidencing the contribution of CCAFS climate data and tools towards development outcomes]
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Exploring and developing effective evaluative approaches for evidencing the contribution of CCAFS climate data and tools towards development outcomes
Key messages
Initial steps towards outcome-focused monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL) on communication and engagement can be small, but they must be systematic.
To achieve broad participation, MEL needs to be lean and do-able.
Well-designed MEL adds value by feeding information and les...
Schuetz, Tonya
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Meadu, Vanessa
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Atakos, Vivian
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White, Julianna M.
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Schubert, Cecilia
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Urrea Benitez, José Luis
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Mungai, Catherine
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Cramer, Laura
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[Measuring how communication and engagement efforts help deliver outcomes]
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Measuring how communication and engagement efforts help deliver outcomes