JRC, CCAFS jointly sponsored the workshop on June 13-14, 2012, at the JRC in Ispra, Italy, to identify avenues for exploiting remote sensing information to improving crop forecasting in smallholder farming environments. The workshop’s objectives were:
1) To advance the state-of-knowledge of data ...
Hoefsloot P
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Ines, Amor V. M.
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Dam, Jos C. van
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Duveiller, Gregory
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Kayitakire, Francois
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Hansen, James
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[Combining Crop Models and Remote Sensing for Yield Prediction: Concepts, Applications and Challenges for Heterogeneous Smallholder Environments]
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Combining Crop Models and Remote Sensing for Yield Prediction: Concepts, Applications and Challenges for Heterogeneous Smallholder Environments
This report summarizes the proceedings of the workshop; “Mobilizing a CGIAR Agricultural
Insurance Research Community,” held in Washington, D.C., January 20-22. 29 participants
representing 14 CGIAR Centers (AfricaRice, CIAT, CIMMYT, ICARDA, ICRAF, IFPRI,
ILRI, CCAFS, IWMI, IRRI) came together to...
Garvin, S
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Hansen, James
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[Mobilizing a CGIAR Agricultural Insurance Research Community]
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Mobilizing a CGIAR Agricultural Insurance Research Community
The impacts of a warming world are affecting food production in every corner of the globe. From shifting rainfall patterns and growing seasons, to more frequent and extreme droughts and floods, to increasingly severe pest and disease outbreaks among crops and livestock, farming as we know it is u...
Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Birch, James
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Meza, Laura
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Sunga, Ishmael
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Bong, Bui Ba
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Rabbinge, Rudy
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Reddy, Matthew
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Dinesh, Dhanush
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Korner, Jana
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Millan, Alberto
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Hansen, James
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Huyer, Sophia
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture]
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Feeding the World in a Changing Climate: An Adaptation Roadmap for Agriculture
This study estimated the economic value of agricultural climate services for strengthening the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate variability and risks in Ethiopia. Using a choice experiment approach, the study introduced a hypothetical package of improved climate services to 600 random...
Abonesh Tesfaye Tulu
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Hansen, James
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Kassie, Girma T.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Solomon, Dawit
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[Estimating the economic value of climate services for strengthening resilience of smallholder farmers to climate risks in Ethiopia: A choice experiment approach]
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Estimating the economic value of climate services for strengthening resilience of smallholder farmers to climate risks in Ethiopia: A choice experiment approach
We consider the question of what is needed for climate services to support sub-Saharan African farmers’ adaptation needs at the scale of the climate challenge. Consistent with an earlier assessment that mutually reinforcing supply-side and demand-side capacity constraints impede the development o...
Hansen, James
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Vaughan, Catherine
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Dinku, Tufa
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Carr, Edward
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Körner, Jana
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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[Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale]
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Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale
The working paper aims to identify recommendations for gender-aware monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of rural climate services, highlighting system design and indicator development. Drawing from the literature from rural development sectors, the paper first identifies key lessons learned on gender...
Gumucio, Tatiana
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Huyer, Sophia
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Hansen, James
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Simelton, Elisabeth
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Partey, Samuel T.
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Schwager, Saroja
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[Inclusion of gender equality in monitoring and evaluation of climate services]
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Inclusion of gender equality in monitoring and evaluation of climate services
Global warming will have far-reaching consequences for agriculture that will dispropotionately affect poor and marginalized groups who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and have a lower capacity to adapt. Sustainable food security in a world of growing population and changing dieats is ...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Hansen, James
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Jarvis, Andy
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[How can we feed nine billion people while reducing GHG emissions?]
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How can we feed nine billion people while reducing GHG emissions?
In much of the developing world, climate change is expected to increase the risk from extreme weather events, and scaling insurance is vital to enhance agricultural risk management and adaptation among the rural poor. Insurance program impacts however too often claim impacts based on the number o...
Kramer, Berber
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Hellin, Jon
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Hansen, James
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Rose, Alison
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Braun, Mélody
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[Looking beyond loss and damage: Reframing insurance to promote adaptation and resilience]
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Looking beyond loss and damage: Reframing insurance to promote adaptation and resilience
In 2014, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) proposed a major expansion of agricultural insurance in the context of other reforms to the agricultural sector, and as part of the implementation of its National Agricultural Resilience Framework (NARF). This report...
Hansen, James
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Hellin, Jonathan
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Rose, Goslinga
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Araba, Debisi
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[A roadmap for evidence-based insurance development for Nigeria’s farmers]
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A roadmap for evidence-based insurance development for Nigeria’s farmers
The impacts of increasing natural climate disasters are threatening food security in the Asia-Pacific region. Rice is Asia’s most important staple food. Climate variability and change directly impact rice production, through changes in rainfall, temperature and CO2 concentrations. The key for sus...
Heath L
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Salinger MJ
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Falkland T
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Hansen, James
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Jiang K
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Kameyama Y
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Kishi, M.
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Meinke H
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Morton K
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Nikitina, E.
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Shukla PR
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White I
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[Climate and Security in Asia and the Pacific (Food, Water and Energy)]
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Climate and Security in Asia and the Pacific (Food, Water and Energy)