This document highlights the key messages drawn from climate adaptation efforts and events done with Philippines’ Department of Agriculture-Regional Field Offices (DA-RFOs) across the country. This brief, developed for the Climate Change Consciousness Week, offers DA a synthesis of lessons from t...
International Livestock Research Institute
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[Leveraging improved genetics and breeding to support climate adaptation for livestock keepers in low-income countries]
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Leveraging improved genetics and breeding to support climate adaptation for livestock keepers in low-income countries
Globally the picture on climate change and its effects on humanity appear quite disturbing as food systems and consumption patterns are sliding towards low against prediction values. In Ghana population expansion as a driver has quadrupled now and
calls for more food and fibre needs than ten deca...
Botchway, Vincent Ansah
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Sam, Kingsley Odum
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Karbo, Naaminong
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Essegbey, George Owusu
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Nutsukpo, Delali
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Agyemang, Kingsley
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Partey, Samuel T.
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[Scaling up of CSA Platforms at the Subnational (District) Levels in Ghana: a Progressive Achievement of Theghana CCAFS Science-Policy Platform]
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Scaling up of CSA Platforms at the Subnational (District) Levels in Ghana: a Progressive Achievement of Theghana CCAFS Science-Policy Platform
International Water Management Institute
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[Monitoring and evaluation of climate resilience for smallholder farming systems: a review of tools and approaches.]
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Monitoring and evaluation of climate resilience for smallholder farming systems: a review of tools and approaches.
Agricultural index-based insurances can increase smallholder farmers’ resilience in a changing climate. CCAFS science successfully informs different insurance schemes around the globe. However, scaling up insurance products for the most vulnerable population remains a challenge, beyond the need t...
Koerner, Jana
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Loboguerrero, Ana Maria
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[10 things to consider for scaling climate-smart agricultural index-based insurances]
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10 things to consider for scaling climate-smart agricultural index-based insurances
Los actuales y futuros cambios ambientales impactarán de manera diferenciada a los distintos grupos sociales en términos de, por ejemplo, los recursos naturales que disminuyen y emergen, los cambios en los patrones de migración, y las nuevas tensiones dentro del hogar relacionadas al trabajo domé...
Gumucio, Tatiana
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Tafur, Mariana
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Martínez Barón, Deissy
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Muriel, Juliana
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[Resumen de insumos y consideraciones clave para la Actualización de la Política Pública “Por la Dignidad de las Mujeres en el Cauca”.]
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Resumen de insumos y consideraciones clave para la Actualización de la Política Pública “Por la Dignidad de las Mujeres en el Cauca”.
A mix of demographic, technological, climate and environmental changes make anticipating and planning the future a complex - but critical step - to increase our food supply while sustaining natural resources. Successful interventions which meet these twin objectives are a priority for governments...
Girvetz, Evan H.
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Osiemo, Jamleck
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Prager, Steven D.
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[Strategic foresight analysis for high impact interventions in agriculture and food security]
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Strategic foresight analysis for high impact interventions in agriculture and food security
Carbon price policies deliver cost-efficient mitigation across sectors, but can result in tradeoffs with food security and other sustainable development goals. Scenarios for a 1.5 °C world based on carbon prices could increase the undernourished population by 80 - 300 million in 2050. Applying a ...
Frank, Stefan
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Havlík, Petr
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Valin, Hugo
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Hasegawa, Tomoko
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Obersteiner, Michael
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[Carbon prices, climate change mitigation & food security: How to avoid trade-offs?]
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Carbon prices, climate change mitigation & food security: How to avoid trade-offs?
As the evidence grows about the critical role of women in agriculture, more and more agricultural development pro-grams and projects aim to address the gender-based constraints to achieve their goals. The process starts with identification of the roles played by men and women in different agricul...
Arora, Diksha
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Twyman, Jennifer
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[Los roles de género entre los pequeños productores de ganadería en Costa Rica]
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[Gender roles among small-scale livestock producers in Costa Rica]
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Gender roles among small-scale livestock producers in Costa Rica
Sova, Chase
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[Economics of agricultural adaptation to climate change: tools for informed decision-making]
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Economics of agricultural adaptation to climate change: tools for informed decision-making