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National Agricultural Extension Systems in ten districts in Tanzania and Malawi are receiving training in the production and use of climate services as part of a WFP-CCAFS joint activity within the GFCS Adaptation Programme in Africa. This document reports on the first training of intermediaries,...


Dorward, P.Tall, ArameKaur, HarneetHansen, James[Training Agricultural Research & Extension Staff to Produce and Communicate Agro-Climatic Information, to Enhance the Resilience and Food Security of Farmers and Pastoralists in Kiteto, Tanzania: Preliminary Findings from the GFCS Adaptation Programme in Africa]Training Agricultural Research & Extension Staff to Produce and Communicate Agro-Climatic Information, to Enhance the Resilience and Food Security of Farmers and Pastoralists in Kiteto, Tanzania: Preliminary Findings from the GFCS Adaptation Programme in Africa

CCAFS (through the International Livestock Research Institute and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society) and the Africa Climate Policy Center sponsored a workshop on ‘Strengthening Regional Capacity for Climate Services in Africa’, held on 27th October 2015 at Victoria Fall...


Mungai CAtakos, VivianHansen, James[Strengthening regional capacity for climate services in Africa, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 27 October 2015.]Strengthening regional capacity for climate services in Africa, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 27 October 2015.

This report presents lessons learned from 18 case studies across Africa and South Asia that have developed and delivered weather and climate information and related advisory services for smallholder farmers. The case studies and resulting lessons provide insights on what will be needed to build e...


Tall, ArameHansen, JamesJay, AlexaCampbell, Bruce M.Kinyangi, JamesAggarwal, Pramod K.Zougmoré, Robert B.[Scaling up climate services for farmers: Mission Possible. Learning from good practice in Africa and South Asia]Scaling up climate services for farmers: Mission Possible. Learning from good practice in Africa and South Asia

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 PInes, Amor V. M.Dam, Jos C. vanDuveiller, GregoryKayitakire, FrancoisHansen, James[Combining Crop Models and Remote Sensing for Yield Prediction: Concepts, Applications and Challenges for Heterogeneous Smallholder Environments]Combining Crop Models and Remote Sensing for Yield Prediction: Concepts, Applications and Challenges for Heterogeneous Smallholder Environments

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...


Hansen, JamesCoffey, Kevin[Agro-climate tools for a new climate-smart agriculture]Agro-climate tools for a new climate-smart agriculture

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 HHansen, JamesGarvin SDiro, R.Le Guen MBlakeley SRao, KolliOsgood, D.[Scaling up index insurance for smallholder farmers: Recent evidence and insights]Scaling up index insurance for smallholder farmers: Recent evidence and insights

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