This policy brief summarizes the process and main results of the development of Costa Rica´s INDC through a participatory process in which the building and use of future scenarios was the first step in a national dialogue to define, test and improve mitigation measures to lower emissions of green...
Veeger, Marieke
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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León F. de
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Paniagua F
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[Shifting the paradigm: Narratives of the future guide the development of Costa Rica's INDC]
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Shifting the paradigm: Narratives of the future guide the development of Costa Rica's INDC
This report presents 4 scenarios for the future of food security, agriculture, livelihoods and environments in East Africa. These scenarios were developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in collaboration with a wide range of regional stakeholders. Th...
Vervoort, Joost M.
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Palazzo, Amanda
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Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Förch, Wiebke
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Havlík, Petr
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Jost, Christine
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Rowlands, H.
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[The future of food security, environments and livelihoods in Eastern Africa: four socio-economic scenarios]
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The future of food security, environments and livelihoods in Eastern Africa: four socio-economic scenarios
The global change research community has recognized that new pathway and scenario concepts are needed to implement impact and vulnerability assessment that is logically consistent across local, regional and global scales. For impact and vulnerability assessment, new socio-economic pathway and sce...
Valdivia RO
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Antle, John M.
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Claessens, Lieven
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Rosenzweig, Cynthia
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Ruane, Alex C.
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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[Representative agricultural pathways and scenarios: a trans-disciplinary approach to agricultural model inter-comparison, improvement and climate impact assessment]
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Representative agricultural pathways and scenarios: a trans-disciplinary approach to agricultural model inter-comparison, improvement and climate impact assessment
Research and action toward better food security, environmental health and rural livelihoods under climate change in the developing world must deal with interacting natural and human systems change processes across multiple dimensions (e.g. biophysical, economic, policy, temporal) and scales (e.g....
Thornton, Philip K.
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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Förch, Wiebke
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Kok K
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Ingram J
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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[The role of regional scenarios in CCAFS cross-scale research, planning and action toward improved food security, environments and livelihoods]
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The role of regional scenarios in CCAFS cross-scale research, planning and action toward improved food security, environments and livelihoods
In 2010 the research theme on Knowledge to Action (K2A) at CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) developed a plan of work, using a log frame structure. Our objective was to explore and jointly apply approaches and methods that enhance K2A linkages with a ...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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Álvarez, S.
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Ferdous, N.
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Förch, Wiebke
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Jost, Christine
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[Lessons in theory of change: monitoring, learning and evaluating Knowledge to Action]
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Lessons in theory of change: monitoring, learning and evaluating Knowledge to Action
What would be the impacts of this kind of future on food security for the region s poor, who live under pressures of climate change? What new challenges would emerge? Could tensions arise from East Africa s assertion of power? What about a future where political and economic fragmentation continu...
Vervoort, Joost M.
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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[No foresight, no food? Regional scenarios for Africa and South Asia]
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No foresight, no food? Regional scenarios for Africa and South Asia
Global pressures on food security such as climate change, rising food prices and rising populations demand collaborative action from actors governing food systems across all levels and scales. This paper describes concerted efforts in East Africa, West Africa and South Asia to build capacity for ...
Vervoort, Joost M.
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Ingram, J.
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Chaudhury, M.
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Förch, Wiebke
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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[Multi-actor scenarios to build capacity for food systems governance at the sub-continental level]
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Multi-actor scenarios to build capacity for food systems governance at the sub-continental level
What does the future hold for food security and adaptation to climate change in East Africa? What if there was concerted action towards political and economic integration? What if the opposite happened, and the region became even more fragmented, with people in power focusing on their own narrow ...
In this paper we focus on the issue of how climate change affects the way that agricultural systems
and the people that manage and govern them need to change in the next 20 years in order to
achieve food security, and how FAO and CGIAR can support that change. We build on a huge body
of lit...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Lipper, Leslie
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Baas, S.
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Cattaneo, Andrea
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Chesterman, Sabrina
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Cochrane, K.
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Young, C. de
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Etten, Jacob van
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Clerck, F. de
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Douthwaite, Boru
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DuVal A
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Fadda, Carlo
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Garnett, Tara
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Gerber, Pierre J.
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Howden, Mark
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Mann W
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McCarthy N
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Sessa R
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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[How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to support food security? Background paper for the conference "Food Security Futures: Research Priorities for the 21st Century" held in Dublin, Ireland, 11-12 April 2013]
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How does climate change alter agricultural strategies to support food security? Background paper for the conference "Food Security Futures: Research Priorities for the 21st Century" held in Dublin, Ireland, 11-12 April 2013