Improving smallholder agricultural systems is central to achieving climate-smart agriculture (CSA). This module focuses on local-level institutions and their role in facilitating the adoption of climate-smart agricultural strategies. The module demonstrates the importance of local institutions fo...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Gordes, A.
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Sessa, R.
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Braimoh, A.K.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[Module 12: Local institutions]
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Module 12: Local institutions
What are wicked problems? The example of agriculture under climate change. What do we know about tackling wicked problems? How can these principles and tools be applied to management of science in the CGIAR?
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[How can sustainability science achieve impact for wicked problems such as climate change?]
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How can sustainability science achieve impact for wicked problems such as climate change?
NOTE: This paper was a draft for discussion and is now published in its final form at https://ccafs.cgiar.org/publications/large-scale-implementation-adaptation-and-mitigation-actions-agriculture. The discussion draft is no longer available.
Cooper, Peter J.M.
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Cappiello S
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[The large-scale implementation of adaptation and mitigation actions in the agriculture and food sector. Draft for discussion.]
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The large-scale implementation of adaptation and mitigation actions in the agriculture and food sector. Draft for discussion.
Global warming will have far-reaching consequences for agriculture that will dispropotionately affect poor and marginalized groups who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and have a lower capacity to adapt. Sustainable food security in a world of growing population and changing dieats is ...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Hansen, James
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Jarvis, Andy
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[How can we feed nine billion people while reducing GHG emissions?]
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How can we feed nine billion people while reducing GHG emissions?
Climate change will have far-reaching impacts on crop, livestock and fisheries production, and will change the prevalence of crop pests. Many of these impacts are already measurable. Climate impact studies are dominated by those on crop yields despite the limitations of climate-crop modelling, wi...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin
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Girvetz, Evan H.
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Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Sebastian, Leocadio S.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Reducing risks to food security from climate change]
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Reducing risks to food security from climate change
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has become a central
concept shaping action and bringing together
constituencies at the global level on agriculture and
climate change. In essence, climate-smart agriculture
pays explicit attention to how interventions in agriculture
and food systems affect each of...
Recientes investigaciones presentadas en
un seminario en París, coorganizado por
el Programa de Investigación de CGIAR en Cambio
Climático, Agricultura y Seguridad Alimentaria
(CCAFS), el Consejo Internacional de Ciencias
Sociales (CICS) y Future Earth, dieron lugar a cinco
recomendaciones de pol...
Huyer, Sophia
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Koningstein, Manon
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Ashby, Jacqueline A.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[Apoyo a las mujeres agricultoras en un clima cambiante: cinco lecciones de políticas]
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Apoyo a las mujeres agricultoras en un clima cambiante: cinco lecciones de políticas
La presente nota informativa ofrece un panorama general de lo que se afirma en el AR5 sobre los efectos del cambio climático en la alimentación y la agricultura, y en particular, la alimentación y la agricultura de los 500 millones de pequeños agricultores y criadores de ganado, así como pescador...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[El cambio climático, la seguridad alimentaria y los pequeños productores]
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El cambio climático, la seguridad alimentaria y los pequeños productores
La présente note d’information donne un aperçu du point de vue de l’AR5 concernant les impacts des changements climatiques sur l’alimentation et l’agriculture – en particulier l’alimentation et l’agriculture du demi-milliard de petits exploitants agricoles, éleveurs et pêcheurs qui sont les plus ...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Woodhill, J.
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Proctor, F.J.
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Delnoye, R.
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[Chain-wide learning for inclusive agrifood market development: A guide to multi-stakeholder processes for linking small-scale producers with modern markets]
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Chain-wide learning for inclusive agrifood market development: A guide to multi-stakeholder processes for linking small-scale producers with modern markets