Weather and climate services (WCS) are expected to improve the capacity of Africa’s agricultural sector to
manage the risks of climate variability and change. Despite this, a lack of evidence regarding WCS prevents
a realistic analysis of whether services are delivering on their potential. This p...
Vaughan, Catherine
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Hansen, James
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Roudier, Philippe
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Watkiss, Paul
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Carr, Edward
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[Evaluating agricultural weather and climate services in Africa: A learning agenda on climate information services in sub-Saharan Africa]
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Evaluating agricultural weather and climate services in Africa: A learning agenda on climate information services in sub-Saharan Africa
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is using theory of change (TOC) planning to specify research outputs, partnerships needed to produce outputs, and a plausible hypothesis on how these outputs will contribute to development outcomes. This learning ...
Schuetz, Tonya
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Förch, Wiebke
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Hansen, James
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Jarvis, Andy
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Coffey, Kevin
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Bonilla Findji, Osana
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Sebastian, Leocadio S.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Kinyangi, James
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Moussa, Abdoulaye S.
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Sajise, A.
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Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
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Richards, Meryl
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Jost, Christine
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Jay, A.
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Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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[Lessons in Theory of Change from a Series of Regional Planning Workshops]
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Lessons in Theory of Change from a Series of Regional Planning Workshops
This report explores evidence and insights from five case studies that have made significant recent progress in addressing the challenge of insuring poor smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the developing world. In India, national index insurance programmes have reached over 30 million farmer...
Greatrex H
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Hansen, James
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Garvin S
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Diro, R.
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Le Guen M
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Blakeley S
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Rao, Kolli
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Osgood, D.
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[Scaling up index insurance for smallholder farmers: Recent evidence and insights]
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Scaling up index insurance for smallholder farmers: Recent evidence and insights
In October 2011, the CGIAR program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the Index Insurance Innovation Initiative (I4) organized a joint workshop hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The workshop was designed to identify and address issues su...
Nicola, F. de
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Hill, R.V.
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Carter, M.
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Choularton, R.
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Hansen, James
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Osgood, D.
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[Index insurance for managing climate-related agricultural risk: toward a strategic research agenda]
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Index insurance for managing climate-related agricultural risk: toward a strategic research agenda
This report presents the work done during farmer training workshops on probabilistic seasonal forecasting and forecast-based advisories, in Wote, Makueni County, Kenya. This activity took into consideration the fact that farmers in Mahueni County in semi-arid eastern Kenya mainly rely on rainfall...
Njiru E
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Ariithi CKK
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Rao, K.P.C.
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Mutinda D
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Hansen, James
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[Farmer training workshops on understanding probabilistic seasonal forecasts: Wote, Kenya, 14-16 and 20-23 September 2011]
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Farmer training workshops on understanding probabilistic seasonal forecasts: Wote, Kenya, 14-16 and 20-23 September 2011
This report describes a workshop that trained roughly 40 intermediaries to adapt this approach in the Kilimajaro region of northern Tanzania. The three-day intermediary training workshop (11-13 September 2015) was followed by a two-day farmer training workshop, which gave a subset of trainees han...
Hansen, James
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[Training workshop on communicating weather and climate information with farmers, Same, Tanzania, September 2013]
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Training workshop on communicating weather and climate information with farmers, Same, Tanzania, September 2013
This report presents the outputs of the planning workshop for the Rwanda Climate Services
for Agriculture Project. The main objective of this planning workshop was to engage key
partners in project planning, revise the project’s specific activities, revise the timeline and
work-plan for all imple...
Nsengiyumva, G
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Birachi, Eliud Abucheli
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Hansen, James
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[Planning workshop for Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project]
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Planning workshop for Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project
A joint collaborative initiative between ICPAC, CCAFS and IRI was launched publically
through a series of presentations and side sessions at the 44th Greater Horn of Africa Climate
Outlook Forum (GHACOF44) in Kampala, Uganda, on 30 August 2016. This initiative is part
of the Climate Services for ...
Mwesigwa JB
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Hansen, James
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Dinku ,T.
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Owusu A
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[Regional Climate Services for Agriculture Project Presentation, and Demonstration and Discussion of Agricultural Maprooms: Launch Events at 44th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum]
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Regional Climate Services for Agriculture Project Presentation, and Demonstration and Discussion of Agricultural Maprooms: Launch Events at 44th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum