Rwanda’s variable and changing climate is an increasingly serious challenge to the country’s
agricultural sector and farming population. Climate information services are emerging as a
means to support farmers to manage risk and provide an opportunity to build the resilience of
agriculture to clim...
Nyasimi, Mary
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Hansen, James
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[Review of climate service needs and opportunities in Rwanda]
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Review of climate service needs and opportunities in Rwanda
This study measures the willingness of male and female farmers to pay for climate-smart technology in rice. Rice is the most important crop in India in terms of area, production, and consumption. It is also the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions among all crops. Direct-seeded rice (DSR) w...
Khan, Md. Tajuddin
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Kishore, Avinash
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Joshi, Pramod K.
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[Gender Dimensions on Farmers’ Preferences for Direct-Seeded Rice with Drum Seeder in India]
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Gender Dimensions on Farmers’ Preferences for Direct-Seeded Rice with Drum Seeder in India
This paper analyzes patterns of social interaction within the organizations working in the Yatenga
province of Burkina Faso, and develops purposive partnership framework that can facilitate the
scaling up of the action research outputs and outcomes. A diagnostic tool for evaluating group function...
Jacques S
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Sawadogo I
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Bationo, B. André
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Partey, Samuel T.
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[Setting partnership for climate change adaptation in the CCAFS Yatenga site, Burkina Faso: analysis of gaps and opportunities]
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Setting partnership for climate change adaptation in the CCAFS Yatenga site, Burkina Faso: analysis of gaps and opportunities
The overall goal of this paper is to apply the climate change and social learning monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework of the CGIAR’s Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Policies and Institutions Flagship program to a climate change innovation platform. ...
Nair SK
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[Addressing environmental degradation and rural poverty through climate change adaptation: An evaluation of social learning in drought-affected districts of Southern India]
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Addressing environmental degradation and rural poverty through climate change adaptation: An evaluation of social learning in drought-affected districts of Southern India
Au Mali, l’analyse des discordances entre le niveau national et le niveau local dans le domaine des politiques en lien avec le changement climatique questionne la problématique de la prise en compte des préoccupations des communautés locales (en l’occurrence rurales) dans ces politiques. Elle amè...
Traoré, Kadari
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Totin, Edmond
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Sogoba, Bougouna
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Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C.
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[Analyse des discordances entre les niveaux national et local par rapport à la gestion du changement climatique au Mali]
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Analyse des discordances entre les niveaux national et local par rapport à la gestion du changement climatique au Mali
Cattle production is an important economic activity throughout Central America. Dairy production, in particular, is an important activity for many smallholder farmers in Costa Rica and across the Central America region. Women’s role in cattle production tends to be poorly valued and recognized, h...
Gallina, Ambra
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[Gender dynamics in the cattle sector in Central America: A literature review]
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Gender dynamics in the cattle sector in Central America: A literature review
Two Training of Trainers (ToT) events were conducted at Hippo View Lodge in Liwonde, Machinga District, 20-24 and 27-31 July 2015. The purpose was to build the capacity of the intermediaries in Balaka, Nsanje and Lilongwe Districts in Malawi to apply the Participatory Integrated Climate Services ...
Kafasalire A
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Fara K
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Nyirongo D
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[Training intermediaries on Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA), Liwonde, Machinga District, Malawi, 20-31 and 27-31 July 2015]
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Training intermediaries on Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA), Liwonde, Machinga District, Malawi, 20-31 and 27-31 July 2015
This report presents the work done during farmer training workshops on probabilistic seasonal forecasting and forecast-based advisories, in Wote, Makueni County, Kenya. This activity took into consideration the fact that farmers in Mahueni County in semi-arid eastern Kenya mainly rely on rainfall...
Njiru E
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Ariithi CKK
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Rao, K.P.C.
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Mutinda D
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Hansen, James
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[Farmer training workshops on understanding probabilistic seasonal forecasts: Wote, Kenya, 14-16 and 20-23 September 2011]
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Farmer training workshops on understanding probabilistic seasonal forecasts: Wote, Kenya, 14-16 and 20-23 September 2011
This report describes a workshop that trained roughly 40 intermediaries to adapt this approach in the Kilimajaro region of northern Tanzania. The three-day intermediary training workshop (11-13 September 2015) was followed by a two-day farmer training workshop, which gave a subset of trainees han...
Hansen, James
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[Training workshop on communicating weather and climate information with farmers, Same, Tanzania, September 2013]
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Training workshop on communicating weather and climate information with farmers, Same, Tanzania, September 2013
Under the auspices of this GFCS Adaptation Programme in Africa, the World Food Program (WFP) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) co-organized a two-day ICT and Radio Stakeholders’ Consultation Workshop in Tanzania to define a nationally appropri...
Kaur, Harneet
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Tall, Arame
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Mwanga, R.O.M.
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Kisanga J
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[Workshop Report: Scaling Up Climate Information Services for Farmers and Pastoralists in Tanzania through ICTs and Rural Radio]
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Workshop Report: Scaling Up Climate Information Services for Farmers and Pastoralists in Tanzania through ICTs and Rural Radio