Honduras is now the largest coffee producer in Central America. Low cost of production, generational change and institutional support resulted in an average annual production growth of 5%. About 110,000 families have coffee as a primary income. 95% of these are smallholders with less than 7ha. Co...
Bunn, Christian
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Lundy, Mark
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Läderach, Peter
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Girvetz, Evan H.
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Castro, Fabio
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[Climate Smart coffee in Honduras]
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Climate Smart coffee in Honduras
Guatemala is the second-largest coffee producer in Central America after Honduras. The coffee sector is a driver of the rural economy, providing incomes for over 122000 farmers, 98% of whom are smallholders. Guatemalan coffee production generates half a million jobs in the rural economy, nearly 1...
Bunn, Christian
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Lundy, Mark
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Läderach, Peter
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Fernández Kolb, Pablo
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Castro-Llanos, Fabio
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Rigsby, Dylan
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[Climate Smart coffee in Guatemala]
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Climate Smart coffee in Guatemala
Climate-smart agricultural (CSA) interventions often require “fine-tuning” i.e. feedback from multiple stakeholders e.g. farmers, extension agents, NGO workers, and policy implementers on their relevance in a given context.
Getting essential feedback to ensure projects are on track in a timely w...
A robust, resilient, and enabling policy environment is critical to take agriculture innovations to scale at national or regional level.
Policy formulation processes that consider climate variability, socioeconomic and environmental shocks require participatory, inclusive, and explorative scenari...
Better soil health can increase agricultural productivity. Restoration activities can build on-farm resilience and contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Land and soil health surveys can improve crop modeling predictions under various climate scenarios and guide more targeted in...
Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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Mwongera, Caroline
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Läderach, Peter
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Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Lamanna, Christine
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Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi
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Shikuku, K.M.
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Twyman, Jennifer
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[Invest in climate-smart soil and land health]
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Invest in climate-smart soil and land health
The process of getting climate-smart agricultural (CSA) interventions and practices to farmers is just as important as the interventions and practices.
Given the complex systems in which CSA is implemented and the various CSA practices and technologies, there is no one-size-fits-all scaling path...
Mwongera, Caroline
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Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi
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Läderach, Peter
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Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Lamanna, Christine
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Shikuku, K.M.
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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[Target the pathways to scale out climate-smart agricultural technologies to farming communities]
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Target the pathways to scale out climate-smart agricultural technologies to farming communities
Recognizing successful climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices is not enough for them to be adopted at scale.
At many sites, government or development-led interventions to promote CSA practices face low adoption rates or are not adopted at all.
Data shows that CSA adoption depends on drivers...
Läderach, Peter
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Mwongera, Caroline
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Lamanna, Christine
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Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi
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Shikuku, K.M.
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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[Know what drives the adoption of climate-smart agriculture across different scales]
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Know what drives the adoption of climate-smart agriculture across different scales
Research suggests that farmer-to-farmer learning can be up to six times more effective in spreading knowledge of CSA practices than in areas where it is not carried out.
Understanding the wider context and requirements for social learning is key.
Peer learning is an effective way to disseminate C...
Shikuku, K.M.
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Mwongera, Caroline
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Läderach, Peter
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Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Lamanna, Christine
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Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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[Support farmer-to-farmer and community-wide social learning]
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Support farmer-to-farmer and community-wide social learning
Research suggests that gender equity is a critical factor in the adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices.
If gender is not explicitly considered in climate-related interventions, the adoption of climate-resilient practices is unlikely to reach scale.
Climate-resilient interventio...
Twyman, Jennifer
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Mwongera, Caroline
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Läderach, Peter
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Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Lamanna, Christine
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Mwungu, Chris Miyinzi
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Shikuku, K.M.
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Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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[Design climate-smart agricultural interventions to be gender inclusive]
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Design climate-smart agricultural interventions to be gender inclusive
Coffee is a staple of Central American exports and agricultural production, not least in El Salvador. Coffee is the second-highest export in terms of value at around US$ 113.4 million in annual foreign currency earnings. The coffee sector directly generates over 40,000 jobs in rural El Salvador. ...
Fernández Kolb, Pablo
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Castro-Llanos, Fabio
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Martinez-Valle, Armando
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Siles, Pablo
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Läderach, Peter
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Lundy, Mark
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Bunn, Christian
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[Climate Smart Coffee in El Salvador]
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Climate Smart Coffee in El Salvador