The purpose of the Planning and Review meeting was to review the rollout of the
Participatory Integrated Agriculture Climate Services (PICSA) process with intermediaries
from the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development (MoAIWD); Malawi
Red Cross (MRC); and Concern Universal. Nat...
Kafasalire A
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Nyirongo D
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[Planning and Review Days on Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) Rollout, Balaka District, Malawi, 26-27 October 2015]
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Planning and Review Days on Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) Rollout, Balaka District, Malawi, 26-27 October 2015
A consortium of partners led by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) held a stakeholder consultative workshop on 6 July 2015 at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya, to solicit input into a proposal on measuring resilience in the Horn of Africa. The proposal...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Dialling Up Resilience Stakeholder Consultation Workshop]
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Dialling Up Resilience Stakeholder Consultation Workshop
This report presents the outputs of the planning workshop for the Rwanda Climate Services
for Agriculture Project. The main objective of this planning workshop was to engage key
partners in project planning, revise the project’s specific activities, revise the timeline and
work-plan for all imple...
Nsengiyumva, G
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Birachi, Eliud Abucheli
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Hansen, James
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[Planning workshop for Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project]
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Planning workshop for Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project
To demonstrate the success of the Senegal-based project on strengthening the scaling up of climate services, and enhance capacity for regional media to report effectively on climate change issues, CCAFS carried out media training and site visit from 28 to 30 September 2015. This activity was co-l...
Meadu, Vanessa
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Touré, Sékou F.
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[Climate Services in Senegal: Media training and field trip report]
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Climate Services in Senegal: Media training and field trip report
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is working with communities to develop ‘Climate-Smart Villages’. These are sites where researchers, local partners, and farmers collaborate to evaluate and maximize synergies across a portfolio of climate-smart ag...
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Kinyangi, James
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[Climate-Smart Villages: a community approach to sustainable agricultural development]
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Climate-Smart Villages: a community approach to sustainable agricultural development
A pilot project in Honduras thwarts the recent epidemic of coffee leaf rust while also empowering women and supporting low-emission agriculture. Women farmers get access to small
plots of land to plant with disease-resistant coffee and tree crops. The land and seedlings are paired with fuel-effic...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Linking gender equity and low-emissions agriculture]
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Linking gender equity and low-emissions agriculture
CCAFS South Asia is working with partner organizations to identify and understand the co-benefits
of reduced emissions that come with adaptation in agriculture. Our research partners are testing and evaluating a wide range of greenhouse gas mitigation options in different locations and cropping s...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Estimating the mitigation co-benefits from adaptation measures]
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Estimating the mitigation co-benefits from adaptation measures
CCAFS South Asia works with local partner organisations to empower women leaders and farmers to understand how best they can adapt to climate change and what resources they require to do so. We also map gender-related climate-smart agricultural practices, develop training materials on climate cha...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Supporting women to take the lead in climate change adaptation]
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Supporting women to take the lead in climate change adaptation
Avec une pratique culturale basée essentiellement sur la pluie,
le Sénégal est confronté à un obstacle majeursur la durabilité
de son agriculture, face à la variabilité des précipitations. Cette
forte dépendance du pays vis-à-vis de l’agriculture pluviale le
rend très vulnérable au changement cli...
Collective action has led to increased agricultural investments, and provided an avenue for dissemination of climate-smart technologies. Cereal–legume intercrop innovations offer farmers multiple benefits that contribute to increased farm resilience, greater food security and better incomes. Far...
Recha, John W.M.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Kimeli, Philip
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Atakos, Vivian
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Kisilu, Rachel
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Kinywee, Julius
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[Building adaptive capacity and improving food security in semi-arid Eastern Kenya]
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Building adaptive capacity and improving food security in semi-arid Eastern Kenya