What is known about the likely impacts of climate change on resource-poor livestock keepers in the developing world? Relatively little, and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) are working to ...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Steeg, Jeannette van de
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Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
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Herrero, Mario T.
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[Climate change: do we know how it will affect smallholder livestock farmers?]
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Climate change: do we know how it will affect smallholder livestock farmers?
Along with several other CGIAR research programs, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has in 2014 been piloting a new way of doing business revolving around the use of results-based management (RBM). Six trial projects were selected via a competitiv...
Schuetz, Tonya
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Schubert, Cecilia
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Förch, Wiebke
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Cramer, Laura
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[Lessons and Insights from the CCAFS Results-Based Management Trial. Summary from the CCAFS Flagship 4 RBM trial projects survey]
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Lessons and Insights from the CCAFS Results-Based Management Trial. Summary from the CCAFS Flagship 4 RBM trial projects survey
Thornton, Philip K.
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Förch, Wiebke
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Cramer, Laura
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Vasileiou, Ioannis
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Jost, Christine
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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[Lessons learned from the Flagship 4 Results-based management Trial]
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Lessons learned from the Flagship 4 Results-based management Trial
Despite an increasingly urbanized world, the number of smallholder farmers will continue growing fast, from 550 million farms today to roughly 750 million by 2030. In the past 15 years, the adoption of agricultural innovations among smallholder farmers was low, commonly ranging between 0 and 15%....
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[How many farmers in 2030 and how many will adopt climate resilient innovations?]
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How many farmers in 2030 and how many will adopt climate resilient innovations?
An analysis of the effects of climate change on 22 critical agricultural commodities and three important natural resources in the developing world reveals a number of cross-cutting themes: The world’s agricultural systems face an uphill struggle in feeding a projected nine to ten billion people b...
Thornton, Philip K.
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[Recalibrating Food Production in the Developing World: Global Warming Will Change More Than Just the Climate]
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Recalibrating Food Production in the Developing World: Global Warming Will Change More Than Just the Climate
Thornton, Philip K.
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Lamanna, Christine
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Bell, P.
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Förch, Wiebke
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Henderson, Benjamin B.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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[Climate-smart agriculture options in mixed crop-livestock systems in Africa south of the Sahara]
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Climate-smart agriculture options in mixed crop-livestock systems in Africa south of the Sahara
Thornton, Philip K.
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Herrero, Mario
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[ The Inter-linkages between Rapid Growth in Livestock Production, Climate Change, and the Impacts on Water Resources, Land Use, and Deforestation ]