Participatory research, using the FAO’s Aquacrop model, is investigating crop yields under several climate change scenarios, and feeding the findings in to a national, cross-sectoral economic model. Stakeholders, from farmers to national decision makers, are using the same model to guide their de...
Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[Linking local agriculture to national policy by studying climate change economics in Colombia]
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Linking local agriculture to national policy by studying climate change economics in Colombia
West et al. s recent paper (1) compared tradeoffs of carbon and crop production in temperate and tropical zones. We welcome the empirical evidence in support of agricultural intensification rather than extensification.
Global temperatures have not been this high in at least 4,000 years. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today - 400 parts per million - has not been this high for three million years. Climate change has moved from an abstract concept to a basic fact of nature, and scientists ha...
Climate change creates widespread risks for food production. As climate impacts are often locally specific, it is imperative that large-scale initiatives to support smallholder farmers consider local priorities and integrate lessons from successful autonomous adaptation efforts. This article expl...
Wright, H
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Laganda, G
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Olupot, M
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Jat, Mangi Lal
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[Farmers, food and climate change: ensuring community-based adaptation is mainstreamed into agricultural programmes]
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Farmers, food and climate change: ensuring community-based adaptation is mainstreamed into agricultural programmes
Food security is high on the global policy agenda. Demand for food is increasing as populations grow and gain wealth to purchase more varied and resource-intensive diets. There is increased competition for land, water, energy, and other inputs into food production. Climate change poses challenges...
Garnett, Tara
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Appleby, M.C.
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Balmford, A.
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Bateman, I.J.
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Benton, T.G.
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Bloomer, P.
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Burlingame, B.
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Dawkins, M.
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Dolan, L.
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Fraser, D.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Hoffmann, I.
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Smith, Pete
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Toulmin, C.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Godfray, H. Charles J.
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[Sustainable intensification in agriculture: premises and policies]
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Sustainable intensification in agriculture: premises and policies
This Gender Strategy is intended to strengthen CCAFS’ development impact through the
integration of gender issues into research in keeping with commitments in the CGIAR Strategy and Results Framework to ensure that rural women benefit from its contribution to poverty reduction, enhanced environme...
Ashby, Jacqueline A.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[CCAFS Gender Strategy]
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CCAFS Gender Strategy
Food systems contribute 19% 29% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, releasing 9,800 16,900 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2008. Agricultural production, including indirect emissions associated with land-cover change, contributes 80% 86% of total food syste...
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), in common with other CGIAR research programs, understands that farmers are at the centre of agricultural innovation and adaptation. This publication describes some of the many ways in which CCAFS works with farme...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Wynter, A
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[Working with farmers for agricultural innovation and climate adaptation]
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Working with farmers for agricultural innovation and climate adaptation
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is using theory of change (TOC) planning to specify research outputs, partnerships needed to produce outputs, and a plausible hypothesis on how these outputs will contribute to development outcomes. This learning ...
Schuetz, Tonya
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Förch, Wiebke
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Hansen, James
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Jarvis, Andy
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Coffey, Kevin
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Bonilla Findji, Osana
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Sebastian, Leocadio S.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Kinyangi, James
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Moussa, Abdoulaye S.
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Sajise, A.
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Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
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Richards, Meryl
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Jost, Christine
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Jay, A.
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Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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[Lessons in Theory of Change from a Series of Regional Planning Workshops]
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Lessons in Theory of Change from a Series of Regional Planning Workshops
Where power lies and how it is conceived in studies of governance and institutions is often not discussed. This is due to the ubiquitous nature of the topic. Power is shaped by a variety of institutional factors, including the architecture of governing structures, questions of scale and level, an...
Sova, Chase
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Helfgott, Ariella E.S.
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Chaudhury, Abrar S.
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Matthews, D.
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Thornton, Thomas F.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[Multi-level Stakeholder Influence Mapping: Visualizing Power Relations Across Actor Levels in Nepal’s Agricultural Climate Change Adaptation Regime]
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Multi-level Stakeholder Influence Mapping: Visualizing Power Relations Across Actor Levels in Nepal’s Agricultural Climate Change Adaptation Regime