Many opportunities to improve agricultural resilience to a variable and changing climate depend on access to high-quality local climate records and are constrained by data gaps. Addressing data quality of meteorological station observations. The ENACTS approach builds capacity of a National Mete...
Dinku, Tufa
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Hansen, James
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Rose, Alison
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Damen, Beau
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Sheinkman, Michael
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[Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) approach to support climate resilience in agriculture.]
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Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) approach to support climate resilience in agriculture.
Access to accurate and useful climate-related information is a prerequisite for smallholder farmers to use and benefit from climate services with respect to both agricultural and livelihood decision-making. Whether or not farmers access particular climate-related information products is determine...
Gumucio, Tatiana
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Hansen, James
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Huyer, Sophia
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Huysen, Tiff van
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Schwager, Saroja
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[Identifying Pathways for More Gender-Sensitive Communication Channels in Climate Services]
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Identifying Pathways for More Gender-Sensitive Communication Channels in Climate Services
Decision-relevant information on the past climate, recent trends, likely future trajectories, anomalies and associated impacts is a prerequisite for decision-making at different levels. Unfortunately, climate information is often not available or, where it does exist, is inaccessible to those tha...
Dinku, Tufa
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Thomson, Madeleine C.
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Cousin, Remi
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Corral, John del
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Ceccato, Pietro
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Hansen, James
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Connor, Stephen J.
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[Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) for development in Africa]
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Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) for development in Africa
Agriculture and food security are key sectors for intervention under climate change. Agricultural production is highly vulnerable even to 2C (lowend) predictions for global mean temperatures in 2100, with major implications for rural poverty and for both rural and urban food security. Agriculture...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Ainslie, A.
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Angelone, C.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Challinor, Andrew J.
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Hansen, James
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Ingram, J.S.I.
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Jarvis, Andy
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Lau, Charlotte
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Agriculture, food security and climate change: Outlook for knowledge, tools and action]
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Agriculture, food security and climate change: Outlook for knowledge, tools and action
Smallholder farmers in Africa are especially vulnerable to climate fluctuations and weather
extremes, and are expected to suffer disproportionately from climate change. Climate services
empower the poor particularly in climate-sensitive developing countries such as the ones in
Africa, and allow t...
Tesfaye, Abonesh
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Hansen, James
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Solomon, Dawit
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[Estimating the economic benefits of alternative options for investing in agricultural climate services in Africa: A review of methodologies]
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Estimating the economic benefits of alternative options for investing in agricultural climate services in Africa: A review of methodologies
On 21 September 2016, the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA), the
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the CGIAR research
program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the International
Research Institute for Climate and Society ...
Climate information services (CIS) involve the production, translation, transfer, and use of climate information for individual and societal decision-making. After years of focus on building CIS around available information, today the CIS community recognizes that effective CIS are aimed at speci...
Carr, Edward
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Goble, Rob
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Rosko, Helen M.
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Vaughan, Catherine
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Hansen, James
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[Identifying climate information services users and their needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review and learning agenda]
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Identifying climate information services users and their needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review and learning agenda
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 prevents a realistic analysis of whether such services are delivering on their potential. This paper revi...
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: Evidence, methods, and a learning agenda]
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Evaluating agricultural weather and climate services in Africa: Evidence, methods, and a learning agenda
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
Climate variability is a major source of risk to smallholder farmers and pastoralists, particularly in dryland regions. A growing body of evidence links climate-related risk to the extent and the persistence of rural poverty in these environments. Stochastic shocks erode smallholder farmers' long...
Hansen, James
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Hellin, Jon
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Fisher, Eleanor
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Cairns, Jill E.
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Stirling, Clare M.
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Lamanna, Christine
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Etten, Jacob van
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Rose, Alison
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Climate risk management and rural poverty reduction]
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Climate risk management and rural poverty reduction