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Anil Kumar-Sing is an Indian farmer with a family to provide for. He talks about the consequences of the decreasing water level and how the lack of an electrical infrastructure does not allow them to use water pumps and to irrigate the fields. The changing weather is really becoming a problem.

Interview with Roberto Quiroz from CIP (International Potato Centre). Filmed at The Conference on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security, 4 May 2010, Nairobi, Kenya

Interview with Roberto Quiroz from CIP (International Potato Centre). Filmed at The Conference on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security, 4 May 2010, Nairobi, Kenya

Ramniwash Kumar is a young farmer from Rambad village in India. He explains in the video how he, due to the lack of water, has moved from maize and wheat to growing vegetables and fruits using conservation farming methods. These environmental friendly techniques were taught at the agriculture uni...

Bougouna Sogoba, the Director of AMEDD (Association Malienne d'Eveil au Développemeny Durable), describes in the video how the NGO is working to connect the research done on food security with the farmers, to disseminate the use of adapted seed varieties as an adaptation measure to the effects of...

Ganame Adama is a farmer with 10 children and two wives from the village Ninigui in Burkina Faso. He talks in the video about how using conservation farming techniques and optimizing the use of water through stone dams, he has adapted successfully to the changes in the rainfall patterns. As Ganam...

Jumuo Namaayi is a farmer from the village Koyukuo in Ghana. He describes how the rainy season has changed over the last few years and and its effects on the crops and fruit production. The fruits often don't ripen in time and diseases are more frequent he explains. This is causing villagers to m...

Keynote Session V - National adaptation plans (NAPs): What are the opportunities for CCAFS to truly influence policy? by Gabrielle Kissinger, Lexeme Consulting. Filmed at the annual Science meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) from 7-11th ...

Australia already has one of the most variable climates in the world and the changes now underway will determine the "vibrancy of our region." How is climate change influencing food production and other aspects of life in Australia? Dr. Megan Clark is on the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture ...

Is there an appreciation for how existing challenges to food production will be greatly intensified by climate change? Sir John Beddington is chair of the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. More information at https://ccafs.cgiar.org/commission