Preliminary results from climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives in the Nyando climate-smart villages. Key messages include: shift in farming techniques reduces number of households eating one or no meals each day, households adopt three to five crop innovations and above, greatly ex...
Kinyangi, James
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Recha, John W.M.
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Kimeli, Philip
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Atakos, Vivian
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[Preliminary results from climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives in the Nyando climate-smart villages]
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[Climate-smart villages and the hope of food secure households]
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Climate-smart villages and the hope of food secure households
Achieving economic growth while reducing poverty in an equitable manner demands that governments in Sub-Saharan Africa commit actions and resources to address gender inequalities, even more so under a changing climate which is expected to widen social inequalities (Dankelman, 2012). International...
Acosta, Mariola
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Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Kigonya, Ritah
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Kyomugisha, Sylvia
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Jassogne, Laurence T.P.
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[Towards gender responsive policy formulation and budgeting in the agricultural sector: Opportunities and challenges in Uganda]
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Towards gender responsive policy formulation and budgeting in the agricultural sector: Opportunities and challenges in Uganda
East Africa's smallholder agriculture is expected to be strongly affected by climate change, which, together with a growing population and pressure on natural resources, will result in an increasing challenge to achieve food security for households and regions. Policy makers need information on w...
Wichern, Jannike
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Wijk, Mark T. van
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Descheemaeker, Katrien
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Heerwaarden, Joost van
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Frelat, Romain
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Giller, Ken E.
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[What works where and for whom? Farm Household Strategies for Food Security across Uganda]
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What works where and for whom? Farm Household Strategies for Food Security across Uganda
With CCAFS support, vital seasonal rainfall forecasts are reaching around two million people across Senegal, helping smallholder farmers make better-informed decisions about agricultural management in a changing climate.
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Scaling up seasonal forecasts to over 2 million users in Senegal]
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Scaling up seasonal forecasts to over 2 million users in Senegal
In sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the limited availability of climate data and networks for sharing information can serve as a constraint to agricultural research and development. The lack of basic understanding of earth processes needed to detect flaws in climate models and decide how best t...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Beyond the climate science: CCAFS downscaled climate data applied by development agencies around the world]
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Beyond the climate science: CCAFS downscaled climate data applied by development agencies around the world
This study aimed at understanding the influence of policy frameworks on climate change
adaptation in Uganda. It combined literature review on existing natural resource management
policies, focus group discussions with farming communities and interviews with key
informants across various policy im...
Ampaire, Edidah L.
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Happy, Providence
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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[The Role of Policy in Facilitating Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Uganda]
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The Role of Policy in Facilitating Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Uganda
The West African country of Mali experienced devastating drought from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s, followed by partial rainfall recovery that remains below pre-1960s climatology. Here, we examine the historical and projected temperature and rainfall variability across the Malian Sahel in an ...
Birkel SD
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Mayewski PA
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[Analysis of Historical and Projected Future Climate of Mali, West African Sahel]
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Analysis of Historical and Projected Future Climate of Mali, West African Sahel
The significant role of agriculture in climate change has been underrepresented in previous years’ discussions and agreements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). CCAFS and partners in the global agriculture community have strived to address this imbalance thr...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Agriculture is integrated into the Paris agreement]
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Agriculture is integrated into the Paris agreement
Coffee production in Costa Rica employs up to 150,000 people, representing 8% of the Costa Rican workforce, and accounts for nearly 10% of national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In order to reach the national goal of carbon neutrality by 2021 and contribute to international climate protection m...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Informing Costa Rica’s Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in the coffee sector]
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Informing Costa Rica’s Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in the coffee sector
The potential impacts of climate change threaten African agricultural systems, including export crops like cocoa and subsistence agriculture. Investments in the sector are more and more vulnerable to climate change and should take these impacts into consideration to safeguard long-term sustainabi...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Informing over USD 75 million investments for farmers’ resilience]
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Informing over USD 75 million investments for farmers’ resilience