The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), in partnership with the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS), organized a workshop titled Establi...
SEARCA
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[Establishing Climate-Smart Villages in the ASEAN Region to Improve Food Security and Resiliency in Local Communities]
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Establishing Climate-Smart Villages in the ASEAN Region to Improve Food Security and Resiliency in Local Communities
Actualmente, Honduras es el mayor productor de café en Centro América. El bajo costo de producción, el cambio generacional y el apoyo institucional dieron como resultado un crecimiento de la producción anual promedio del 5 %. Cerca de 110.000 familias obtienen su ingreso primario del café y de e...
Bunn, Christian
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Lundy, Mark
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Läderach, Peter
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Castro-Llanos, Fabio
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Girvetz, Evan H.
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[Café sostenible adaptado al clima en Honduras]
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Café sostenible adaptado al clima en Honduras
Smallholder farmers around the globe are facing unstable productivity due to changing climate and weather patterns. The ways in which the private sector supports these farmers to build resilience to and/or engage in efforts to mitigate climate change can have significant impact on farmer liveliho...
Sloan, Kealy
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Teague, Elizabeth
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Talsma, Tiffany
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Daniels, Stephanie
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Bunn, Christian
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Jassogne, Laurence T.P.
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Lundy, Mark
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[One Size Does Not Fit All: Private-Sector Perspectives on Climate Change, Agriculture and Adaptation]
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Private-Sector Perspectives on Climate Change, Agriculture and Adaptation
This study estimated the economic value of agricultural climate services for strengthening the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate variability and risks in Ethiopia. Using a choice experiment approach, the study introduced a hypothetical package of improved climate services to 600 random...
Tesfaye, Abonesh
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Hansen, James
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Kassie, Girma Tesfahun
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Solomon, Dawit
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[Estimating the economic value of climate services for strengthening resilience of smallholder farmers to climate risks in Ethiopia: A choice experiment approach]
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Estimating the economic value of climate services for strengthening resilience of smallholder farmers to climate risks in Ethiopia: A choice experiment approach
Researchers and decision-makers lack a shared understanding of resilience, and practical applications in environmental resource management are rare. Here, we define social-ecological resilience as a property of social-ecological systems that includes at least three main characteristics — resistan...
The fisheries sub-sector in Kenya plays an important role in the national economy. It is an important source of food, nutritional security, employment and foreign exchange. The fisheries and aquaculture sector in Kenya contributes about 0.8% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). It is es...
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, Kenya
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[Policy actions for building resilience of fisheries development in a changing climate]
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Policy actions for building resilience of fisheries development in a changing climate
Livestock production is a major agricultural activity in Kenya, with the livestock sector contributing 30-40% of agricultural GDP and about 12% to the national GDP. The livestock sub-sector further accounts for 30% of total marketed agricultural products and employs 50% of the total agriculture l...
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, Kenya
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[Policy actions for building resilience of livestock production under climate change]
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Policy actions for building resilience of livestock production under climate change
The dynamic nature of climate and its impacts on agriculture is rendering most of the existing adaptation and coping strategies unsupportive in many regions. Recent studies on economic sectors (including agriculture) across institutions and 24 counties have established the following: a widened ga...
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, Kenya
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[Strengthening education, extension and training to accelerate climate resilience and low carbon development in the agriculture sector]
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Strengthening education, extension and training to accelerate climate resilience and low carbon development in the agriculture sector
Achieving water security has emerged as a major objective in Africa, yet an analytical or diagnostic framework for assessing water security in African countries is not known to exist. This paper applies one key dimension of the 2016 Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Asian Water Development Outlook (...
Holmatov, Bunyod
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Lautze, Jonathan
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Manthrithilake, Herath
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Makin, Ian
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[Water security for productive economies: applying an assessment framework in southern Africa]
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Water security for productive economies: applying an assessment framework in southern Africa
Bedelian, Claire
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Ogutu, Joseph O.
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[Trade-offs for climate-resilient pastoral livelihoods in wildlife conservancies in the Mara Ecosystem, Kenya: Small Grants Programme]
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Trade-offs for climate-resilient pastoral livelihoods in wildlife conservancies in the Mara Ecosystem, Kenya: Small Grants Programme