This brief summarizes preliminary findings and recommendations from an ongoing review of literature and CCAFS experience on gender-related challenges in empowering smallholder farming communities through climate services.
Huyer, Sophia
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Hansen, James
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Rose, Alison
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Vaughan, Catherine
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Huysen, Tiff van
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[What we know about gender and rural climate services: Preliminary findings and guidance]
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What we know about gender and rural climate services: Preliminary findings and guidance
We consider the question of what is needed for climate services to support sub-Saharan African farmers’ adaptation needs at the scale of the climate challenge. Consistent with an earlier assessment that mutually reinforcing supply-side and demand-side capacity constraints impede the development o...
Hansen, James
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Vaughan, Catherine
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Dinku, Tufa
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Carr, Edward
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Körner, Jana
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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[Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale]
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Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale
This paper is intended to spur thinking and dialogue among the wide and relatively diverse community of actors engaged in practical activities surrounding the production, translation, transfer and use of climate information for societal decision making.
This white paper is intended to start a con...
Adams, P.
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Eitland E
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Hewitson B
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Vaughan, Catherine
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Wilby R
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Zebiak, Stephen E.
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[Toward an ethical framework for climate services: A White Paper of the Climate Services Partnership Working Group on Climate Services Ethics]
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Toward an ethical framework for climate services: A White Paper of the Climate Services Partnership Working Group on Climate Services Ethics
Immediately prior to the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture 2019, held in Bali, Indonesia, the team responsible for Flagship 4 gathered the diverse group of scientists and practitioners responsible for the portfolio of projects together in order to explore avenues to produ...
Vaughan, Catherine
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Rose, Alison
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Zebiak, Stephen E.
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[Toward synthetic learning across the CCAFS Flagship on Climate Services and Safety Nets]
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Toward synthetic learning across the CCAFS Flagship on Climate Services and Safety Nets
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...
Throughout at least the past several centuries, El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has played a significant role in human response to climate. Over time, increased attention on ENSO has led to a better understanding of both the physical mechanisms, and the environmental and societal consequences...
Zebiak, Stephen E.
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Orlove B
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Vaughan, Catherine
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Muñoz, A.G.
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Hansen, James
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Troy T
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Thomson M
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Lustig A
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Garvin S
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[Investigating El Niño-Southern Oscillation and society relationships]
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Investigating El Niño-Southern Oscillation and society relationships
Climate information services (CIS) involve the production, translation, transfer, and use of climate information for individual and societal decision-making. After years of focus on building CIS around available information, today the CIS community recognizes that effective CIS are aimed at speci...
Carr, Edward
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Goble, Rob
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Rosko, Helen M.
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Vaughan, Catherine
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Hansen, James
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[Identifying climate information services users and their needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review and learning agenda]
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Identifying climate information services users and their needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review and learning agenda
Weather and climate services (WCS) are expected to improve the capacity of Africa's agricultural sector to manage the risks of climate variability and change. Despite this, a lack of evidence prevents a realistic analysis of whether such services are delivering on their potential. This paper revi...
Vaughan, Catherine
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Hansen, James
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Roudier, Philippe
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Watkiss, Paul
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Carr, Edward
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[Evaluating agricultural weather and climate services in Africa: Evidence, methods, and a learning agenda]
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Evaluating agricultural weather and climate services in Africa: Evidence, methods, and a learning agenda
Weather and climate services (WCS) are expected to improve the capacity of Africa’s agricultural sector to
manage the risks of climate variability and change. Despite this, a lack of evidence regarding WCS prevents
a realistic analysis of whether services are delivering on their potential. This p...
Vaughan, Catherine
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Hansen, James
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Roudier, Philippe
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Watkiss, Paul
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Carr, Edward
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[Evaluating agricultural weather and climate services in Africa: A learning agenda on climate information services in sub-Saharan Africa]
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Evaluating agricultural weather and climate services in Africa: A learning agenda on climate information services in sub-Saharan Africa