En el Territorio Sostenible Adaptado al Clima (TeSAC) en El Tuma – La Dalia, Nicaragua, se desarrolló un taller para trabajar con familias rurales en el fortalecimiento y comprensión de conceptos sobre cambio climático, vulnerabilidad y adaptación al cambio climático. Al mismo tiempo se pretendía...
In the climate-smart village of El Tuma – La Dalia, in Nicaragua, was developed a workshop to work with rural families to strengthen and understand concepts on climate change, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. At the same time, it was intended to sensitize farmers to assume a more a...
Taleno, Sayra
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Aguilar, Amílcar
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[Sesión ECA con familias: Desarrollando las bases conceptuales para el análisis y la compresión de la vulnerabilidad y cambio climático]
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Sesión ECA con familias: Desarrollando las bases conceptuales para el análisis y la compresión de la vulnerabilidad y cambio climático
The agricultural sector plays a key role in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). As the backbone of the economy, it affects society at many levels since national economies and people’s jobs, incomes and food security depend upon it. Climate change and variability pose a major t...
Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Traoré, Alain S.
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Mbodj, Yamar
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[Overview of the Scientific, Political and Financial Landscape of Climate-Smart Agriculture in West Africa]
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Overview of the Scientific, Political and Financial Landscape of Climate-Smart Agriculture in West Africa
This report presents the highlights of a scoping study conducted by the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) in Myanmar. The study was funded by CCAFS in support of a plan to test and develop climate-smart villages in Myanmar. In 2015, through the initiative of CCAFS and after ...
Barbon, Wilson J.
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Vidallo, Rene
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Gonsalves, Julian
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[The Promotion of Climate-Smart Villages to Support Community-Based Adaptation Programming in Myanmar]
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The Promotion of Climate-Smart Villages to Support Community-Based Adaptation Programming in Myanmar
Agriculture in Africa is not only exposed to climate change impacts but is also a source of greenhouse gases (GHGs). While GHG emissions in Africa are relatively minimal in global dimensions, agriculture in the continent constitutes a major source of GHG emissions. In Ghana, agricultural emission...
Akrofi-Atitianti, F.
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Speranza, Chinwe Ifejika
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Bockel, Louis
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Asare, R.
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[Assessing climate smart agriculture and its determinants of practice in Ghana: a case of the cocoa production system]
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Assessing climate smart agriculture and its determinants of practice in Ghana: a case of the cocoa production system
Since 2011, the CGIAR program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
(CCAFS) has supported research in different parts of the world on how climate-smart
technologies, practices and information can address the challenge of transitioning to climatesmart
agriculture at a large scale under ...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Bouroncle, Claudia
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[Climate-smart agriculture: in need of a theory of scaling]
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Climate-smart agriculture: in need of a theory of scaling
Prasad, P.V. Vara
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Hijmans R.J.
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Pierzynski, G.M.
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Middendorf, B. Jan
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[Climate Smart Agriculture and Sustainable Intensification: Assessment and priority setting for Rwanda]
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Climate Smart Agriculture and Sustainable Intensification: Assessment and priority setting for Rwanda
This paper analyses contrasting discourses of ‘climate-smart agriculture’ (CSA) for their implications on control over and access to changing resources in agriculture. One of the principal areas of contestation around CSA relates to equity, including who wins and who loses, who is able to partici...
Karlsson, Linus
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Naess, Lars Otto
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Nightingale, Andrea
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Thompson, John
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[‘Triple wins’ or ‘triple faults’? Analysing the equity implications of policy discourses on climate-smart agriculture (CSA)]
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‘Triple wins’ or ‘triple faults’? Analysing the equity implications of policy discourses on climate-smart agriculture (CSA)
There is overwhelming evidence that Africa needs to change its agricultural systems for increased productivity, resilience and competitiveness in ensuring food security, income generation, as well as minimization of negative impacts on environment. Research shows that the current agricultural sys...
Mapfumo, Paul
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Nyasimi, Mary
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Speranza, Chinwe Ifejika
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Wamukoya, George
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Kinyangi, James
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[Climate Smart Agriculture Partnership for Africa: Prospects and Challenges]
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Climate Smart Agriculture Partnership for Africa: Prospects and Challenges
Smart agricultural technologies are required to advance the development, productivity, and sustainability of the crop and livestock value chains. Several steps are required to fully deploy novel agricultural technologies to millions of smallholder farmers and assist countries in southern Africa t...
Nhamo, N.
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Chikoye, D.
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Gondwe, T.
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[Delivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa]
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Delivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa
Over 60% of land in southern Africa is suitable for livestock production and the contribution to gross domestic product is about 36%. Livestock play important roles in rural livelihood systems including food provision like meat and milk, services like draught power and transport, nutrient supply ...
Murungweni, C.
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Tada, O.
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Nhamo, N.
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[Adaptive livestock production models for rural livelihoods transformation]
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Adaptive livestock production models for rural livelihoods transformation