The Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project is a four-year initiative (2016-2019) that seeks to transform Rwanda’s rural farming communities and national economy through improved climate risk management. This report presents the outputs of a five-day training on the use of a Participatory...
Nsengiyumva, Gloriose
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Clarkson, Graham
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Dorward, Peter
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[Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) Specialist Intermediary Training in Nyamata, Rwanda]
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Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) Specialist Intermediary Training in Nyamata, Rwanda
This study identifies entry points for innovation for sustainable intensification of agricultural systems. An agricultural innovation systems approach is used to provide a holistic image of (relations between) constraints faced by different stakeholder groups, the dimensions and causes of these c...
Schut, Marc
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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Okafor, C.
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Hicintuka, C.
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Mapatano, S.
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Nabahungu, N.S.
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Muchunguzi, P.
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Njukwe, E.
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Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M.
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Sartas, Murat
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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[Sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in the central African highlands: the need for institutional innovation]
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Sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in the central African highlands: the need for institutional innovation
This report summarizes the discussions, analysis and interactions during IRI postdoctoral
research scientist Asher Siebert’s one-week stay in Rwanda in late August 2016 as part of the
CCAFS-Rwanda project. The overall aim of this project is help farmers in Rwanda to be
better adapted to climate v...
Siebert, Asher
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Vuguziga, Floribert
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[Workshop report: Training and Development of Downscaled Seasonal Forecasts for Pilot Districts, Kigali, Rwanda]
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Workshop report: Training and Development of Downscaled Seasonal Forecasts for Pilot Districts, Kigali, Rwanda
There were a large number of active meteorological stations in Rwanda prior to the mid‐1990s and since around 2010. However, from around the time of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 throughout the late 2000s, the number of active stations was greatly reduced. To address temporal and spatial gaps in m...
Siebert, Asher
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Dinku, Tufa
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Vuguziga, Floribert
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Twahirwa, Anthony
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Corral, John del
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Robertson, Andrew W.
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[Evaluation of ENACTS-Rwanda: A new multi-decade, high resolution rainfall and temperature data set—Climatology]
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Evaluation of ENACTS-Rwanda: A new multi-decade, high resolution rainfall and temperature data set—Climatology
This report describes a one-day workshop that presented new downscaled seasonal climate
forecasts and a brief training program on how to understand, communicate and use new
format with farmer groups. It builds on and extends the previous PICSA training workshops
by (a) shifting from the use of st...
Hansen J
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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[Training on understanding, communicating, and using the downscaled seasonal forecast]
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Training on understanding, communicating, and using the downscaled seasonal forecast
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