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Through the ages, farmers have used indigenous knowledge and traditional coping strategies to adapt to changes in weather and climatic conditions. Now, increasingly erratic climate variability is making it difficult for farmers to keep up. Climate uncertainty often influences farmers’ decisions. ...

Bad weather is a serious risk for low-income farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk and others whose livelihoods depend on the natural resource base. CCAFS is working with partners around the world to develop weather index-based insurance schemes that help secure farmers’ livelihoods and give them the...

Social learning brings multiple stakeholders together to provide their insights on a complex problem in order to arrive at shared solutions.

In East Africa, agricultural systems are highly vulnerable to climate change and variability because of high dependence on rainfall. The increasing frequency and severity of drought, heat and cold stress as well as floods are likely to lead to major food crises in the region. Rapid population gro...

In pilot trainings in Tanzania, farmers have received climate data together with participatory tools to help them evaluate their options and make on-farm decisions. The approach is now being scaled up in Malawi and Tanzania through training agricultural extension agents and NGO staff to provide c...

At a weather research station in Makueni, Kenya, about a dozen farmers are gathered in an outdoor classroom. Scant and variable rainfall is a big problem in Makueni, so a training program from the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is tutoring the group on ...

CCAFS strives to engage with stakeholders regularly and bridge networks by using innovative communication tools to disseminate science-based evidence from research and also to understand how perceptions and feedback from the field can be integrated into research.

CCAFS has documented farmers’ testimonials on climate-smart agriculture through several short films. The films form an important repository of the various interventions being used in Climate-Smart Villages in Bihar and Haryana. Apart from capturing field experiences, they also serve as valuable exte...