The Stepwise Climate Smart Investment Pathway (Stepwise) is an approach developed by the IITA research team in collaboration
with partners. Stepwise breaks down the recommended best practices that many farmers cannot afford to implement into smaller, more affordable packages that can be implement...
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
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[Climate Smart Investment Pathways for smallholder coffee farmers]
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Climate Smart Investment Pathways for smallholder coffee farmers
This Info Note summarizes the findings from the monitoring efforts of CSA practices conducted in 2018 in the Climate-Smart Villages of Guatemala and Honduras within the framework of the project “Generating evidence on gender-sensitive climate-smart agriculture to inform policy in Central America”...
Acosta, Mariola
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Bonilla Findji, Osana
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Eitzinger, Anton
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Arora, Diksha
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Martinez- Baron, Deissy
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Bejarano, Gustavo
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Suchini, Jose Gabriel
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[Examining gender differences in the access to and implementation of climate-smart agricultural practices in Central America]
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Examining gender differences in the access to and implementation of climate-smart agricultural practices in Central America
Climate change impacts are manifesting throughout the world and they are especially significant in developing countries, including Ghana, that are particularly vulnerable. The impacts of climate change are complex and uncertain in nature that the usual conventional planning often falls short to a...
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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[Scenario-Guided Review of the Ghana Livestock Policy]
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Scenario-Guided Review of the Ghana Livestock Policy
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...
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
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”.
This brief focuses on the constraints that women face to more equitable participation in smallholder carbon and climatesmart initiatives. It highlights the important role that a flexible learning approach plays in advancing equity goals, and offers recommendations for concrete actions that can em...
Bernier, Quinn
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Franks P
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Otzelberger A
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Foster K
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[Addressing Gender in Climate-Smart Smallholder Agriculture]
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Addressing Gender in Climate-Smart Smallholder Agriculture
Coffee and banana production in Uganda will be affected by climate change. While rainfall quantity might not drastically alter, its distribution is expected to become more erratic. Furthermore, the average temperature is expected to increase by 2 °C in the next few decades. This will affect coffe...
Kangire A
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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Verhagen J
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Koomen I
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[Towards climate smart agriculture: lessons from a coffee × banana case. Experiences from research for policy support in Uganda]
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Towards climate smart agriculture: lessons from a coffee × banana case. Experiences from research for policy support in Uganda
This summary note is an excerpt from the chapter on Niger that will appear in the peer-reviewed IFPRI monograph, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis.
Hassan Y
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Danguioua, A.
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Jalloh, Abdulai
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Thomas, Timothy S.
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[West African agriculture and climate change: Niger. Summary note]
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West African agriculture and climate change: Niger. Summary note