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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 summarizes the proceedings of the workshop; “Developing a Methodology to Communicate Climate Services At Scale Through Intermediaries for Farmer Communities in Africa and South Asia,” held in Nairobi, Kenya on June 12-14, 2013. The workshop brought together experts from different coun...


May SHansen, JamesTall, Arame[Workshop report: Developing a methodology to communicate climate services for farmers at scale]Workshop report: Developing a methodology to communicate climate services for farmers at scale

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

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, SHansen, James[Mobilizing a CGIAR Agricultural Insurance Research Community]Mobilizing a CGIAR Agricultural Insurance Research Community

Adaptation to anthropogenic climate change is the biggest challenge that humankind faces. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a synthesis of the state of the science, impacts, and policy, with a focus on long-term climate trends. However, the worst impacts of climate cha...


Hansen, JamesFurlow, JohnGoddard, LisaNissan, HannahVaughan, CatherineRose, AlisonFiondella, FrancescoBraun, MélodySteynor, AnnaJack, ChristoperChinowsky, PaulThomson, Madeleine C.Baethgen, WalterDinku, TufaSenato, Asrat YirguDo, Minh PhuongHuq, SaleemulNdiaye, Ousmane[Scaling climate services to enable effective adaptation action]Scaling climate services to enable effective adaptation action

RiskView is a tool developed by the World Food Programme (WFP) to translate weather data (real-time and historical) and other spatial information (e.g., crops, drought risk, population, etc.) into food security needs and response costs. It serves as a swift way of estimating costs in advance of f...


Hansen, JamesTippett MBell, M.Ines AVM[Linking seasonal forecasts into risk - view to enhance food security contingency planning]Linking seasonal forecasts into risk - view to enhance food security contingency planning

The paper briefly reviews the epidemiology and control of helminth parasites of small ruminants of economic importance in the tropics. Epidemiological factors influencing seasonal availability and acquisition of nematiode larvae and metacercaria by sheep and goats on pasture are discussed. The pa...


Tembely, S.Hansen, James[Helminth diseases of small ruminants in the tropics: A review of epidemiology and control strategies]Helminth diseases of small ruminants in the tropics: A review of epidemiology and control strategies

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.Aggarwal, Pramod K.Ainslie, A.Angelone, C.Campbell, Bruce M.Challinor, Andrew J.Hansen, JamesIngram, J.S.I.Jarvis, AndyKristjanson, Patricia M.Lau, CharlotteThornton, Philip K.Wollenberg, Eva K.[Agriculture, food security and climate change: Outlook for knowledge, tools and action]Agriculture, food security and climate change: Outlook for knowledge, tools and action

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 ...


Dinh, DannieHansen, James[Climate Week NYC Panel Event: Innovative Approaches for Scaling up Climate-Smart Agriculture]Climate Week NYC Panel Event: Innovative Approaches for Scaling up Climate-Smart Agriculture

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