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At the Paris climate summit in 2015, the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) announced a set of 2030 ambitions under the three pillars of climate smart agriculture (CSA), namely productivity, resilience and mitigation. Based on work under WBCSD’s workstream to improve busi...


Vermeulen, Sonja J.Frid-Nielsen, Snorre[Measuring Progress Towards the WBCSD Statement of Ambition on Climate-Smart Agriculture: Improving Businesses’ Ability to Trace, Measure and Monitor CSA]Measuring Progress Towards the WBCSD Statement of Ambition on Climate-Smart Agriculture: Improving Businesses’ Ability to Trace, Measure and Monitor CSA

Agricultural research for development has made important contributions to poverty reduction and food security over the last 40 years. Nevertheless, it is likely that both the speed of global change and its impacts on natural and socio-economic systems are being under-estimated. Coupled with the m...


Thornton, Philip K.Schuetz, TonyaFörch, WiebkeCramer, LauraAbreu, DavidVermeulen, Sonja J.Campbell, Bruce M.[Responding to global change: A theory of change approach to making agricultural research for development outcome-based]Responding to global change: A theory of change approach to making agricultural research for development outcome-based

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.Vermeulen, Sonja J.Aggarwal, Pramod K.Corner-Dolloff, CaitlinGirvetz, Evan H.Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana MaríaRamírez Villegas, JuliánRosenstock, Todd S.Sebastian, Leocadio S.Thornton, Philip K.Wollenberg, Eva K.[Reducing risks to food security from climate change]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...


Vermeulen, Sonja J.[Closing the gender gap in climate-smart agriculture]Closing the gender gap in climate-smart agriculture

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, SophiaTwyman, JenniferKoningstein, ManonAshby, Jacqueline A.Vermeulen, Sonja J.[Apoyo a las mujeres agricultoras en un clima cambiante: cinco lecciones de políticas]Apoyo a las mujeres agricultoras en un clima cambiante: cinco lecciones de políticas

Globally, agriculture is the mainstay of most well planned economies because it contributes significantly to the national GDP, creates employment, provides food for human sustenance, raw materials for industry and earns foreign exchange. Nigeria is blessed with tremendous agricultural resources s...


Vermeulen, Sonja J.Abubakar YConway, G.Dziba LHoevel MIbe CIbrahim AOlokor JIfeijka Speranza, Chinwe[National Agricultural Resilience Framework]National Agricultural Resilience Framework

Climate change demands new approaches to agriculture: farmers’ practices will need to change to adapt to and mitigate the effects of changing conditions. Addressing gender inequality is key to ensuring this outcome. Agriculture is a fundamental part of women’s livelihoods globally, most markedly ...


Huyer, SophiaTwyman, JenniferKoningstein, ManonVermeulen, Sonja J.Hill, Catherine[Climate change, policy change: Five policy lessons to support women farmers in a changing climate]Climate change, policy change: Five policy lessons to support women farmers in a changing climate

The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted under the Paris Agreement propose a country’s contribution to global mitigation efforts and domestic adaptation initiatives. This paper provides a systematic analysis of NDCs submitted by South Asian nations, in order to assess how far thei...


Amjath-Babu, T.S.Aggarwal, Pramod K.Vermeulen, Sonja J.[Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement]Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement

How a whole-farm approach to reducing emissions can create additional benefits for smallholder farmers.


Vermeulen, Sonja J.[A farm is greater than the sum of its parts.]A farm is greater than the sum of its parts.

Global food chains and increasingly interlinked economies mean countries need to work together to reduce emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas.


Vermeulen, Sonja J.[Round the world in a nitrogen balloon]Round the world in a nitrogen balloon

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