The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT is implementing a Dutch-supported project entitled: Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region. This work aims to boost timely and affordable access to good-quality seed for a portfolio of crop...
Recha, Tobias
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Mubiru, Daudi
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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Kabakoyo, Elizabeth
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[Crowdsourcing vegetables for farmers’ livelihood improvement: a novel collaborative pilot in Uganda. Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region project progress report]
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Crowdsourcing vegetables for farmers’ livelihood improvement: a novel collaborative pilot in Uganda. Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region project progress report
This booklet presents some of the emerging stories of success of climate-smart agriculture technologies and practices that are positively changing the lives of smallholder farmers across East Africa. They were selected from a portfolio of climate-smart agriculture interventions and have potential...
Recha, John W.M.
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Kimeli, Philip
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Atakos, Vivian
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Mungai, Catherine
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[Stories of Success: Climate-Smart Villages in East Africa]
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Stories of Success: Climate-Smart Villages in East Africa
This film describes how every one of the world's many livestock systems is being transformed by innovations in livestock development: research innovations, technological innovations, policy innovations and political will to drive economic development.
This paper offers an overview of how climate change is already affecting farmers across eastern and southern Africa, and how it will continue to affect them in the future. The rising temperatures and increased rainfall variability associated with climate change are undermining the livelihoods and...
Girvetz, Evan H.
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Claessens, Lieven
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Lamanna, Christine
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Navarro-Racines, Carlos
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Nowak, Andreea
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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[Future Climate Projections in Africa: Where Are We Headed?]
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Future Climate Projections in Africa: Where Are We Headed?
As women's participation has become central to the formulation and implementation of development programs, gender relations within households and gendered discourses in development programs have been subject to much scrutiny. This paper seeks to expand these notions of gender and development by s...
Basu, P.
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Galiè, Alessandra
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Baltenweck, Isabelle
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[Presence and property: Gendered perspectives on participation in a dairy development program in Kenya and Uganda]
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Presence and property: Gendered perspectives on participation in a dairy development program in Kenya and Uganda
Rietveld, Anne M.
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Ajambo, S.
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Kikulwe, E.
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[Economic gain and other losses? Gender relations and matooke production in Western Uganda]
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Economic gain and other losses? Gender relations and matooke production in Western Uganda
Dr George Mahuku, IITA plant pathologist for Eastern, Central and Southern Africa shares on IITA's research on controlling aflatoxins - a major global health problem that threatens lives and livelihoods.