This report captures a process of shared South-South learning and planning towards defining
priorities for strengthening and scaling-up climate information and advisory services for
agriculture and food security in West Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, and South Asia.
The process began at ...
Sivakumar, MVK
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Collins, C
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Jay, A.
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Hansen, James
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[Regional priorities for strengthening climate services for farmers in Africa and South Asia]
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Regional priorities for strengthening climate services for farmers in Africa and South Asia
Growing awareness of how development outcomes are dependent on our variable and changing climate is focusing increasing attention on the role of climate information in agricultural development. Much of this attention is driven by the growing acceptance that human activity is altering the Earth’s ...
The way we produce food must adapt to a variable and changing climate. And key to achieving this is to improve the link between climate information and agricultural practices, especially those of smallholder farmers in developing countries. ‘Agro-climate tools’ do just that and some are introduce...
Extreme climate events can undermine agriculture and rural development. Even in years when extreme events do not occur, the uncertainty that results from climate-related risk is an impediment to sustainable intensification of agriculture and adoption of climate-smart agricultural production pract...
Coffey, Kevin
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Haile, Menghestab
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Halperin, Mea
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Wamukoya, George
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Hansen, James
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Kinyangi, James
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Tesfaye Fantaye, Kindie
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Dinesh, Dhanush
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[Improving early warning systems for agricultural resilience in Africa]
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Improving early warning systems for agricultural resilience in Africa
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
Rwanda’s variable and changing climate is an increasingly serious challenge to the country’s
agricultural sector and farming population. Climate information services are emerging as a
means to support farmers to manage risk and provide an opportunity to build the resilience of
agriculture to clim...
Nyasimi, Mary
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Hansen, James
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[Review of climate service needs and opportunities in Rwanda]
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Review of climate service needs and opportunities in Rwanda
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