This document describes a monitoring instrument for efficiently tracking changes in resilience
in agricultural initiatives.
Operationalizing the concept of resilience (i.e. the ability to withstand change, stresses and shocks)
poses significant challenges for project managers, particularly when r...
Hills T
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Pramova E
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Ericksen, Polly J.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Noble, A.D.
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Weight, Elizabeth
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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McCartney, Matthew P.
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[A Monitoring Instrument for Resilience]
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A Monitoring Instrument for Resilience
Agroforestry and livestock-keeping both have the potential to promote anthropogenic climate changeresilience, and understanding how they can support each other in this context is crucial. Here, we discuss relevant issues in East Africa, where recent agroforestry interventions to support livestock...
Dawson, Ian K.
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Carsan, S.
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Franzel, Steven
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Kindt, Roeland
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Breugel, P. van
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Graudal L
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Lillesø, Jens-Peter B.
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Orwa C
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Jamnadass, Ramni H.
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[Agroforestry, livestock, fodder production and climate change adaptation and mitigation in East Africa: issues and options]
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Agroforestry, livestock, fodder production and climate change adaptation and mitigation in East Africa: issues and options
Climate change is a serious threat for agriculture, food security and the fight against poverty, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. With the IPCC climate outlook for the 21st century, the future of maize production in Kenya remains under threat of more intense and frequent droughts, fluctuations i...
Tongruksawattana, Songporne
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[Climate shocks and choice of adaptation strategy for Kenyan maize-legume farmers: Insights from poverty, food security and gender perspectives]
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Climate shocks and choice of adaptation strategy for Kenyan maize-legume farmers: Insights from poverty, food security and gender perspectives
A sustainable food future will require reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture even as the world produces substantially more food. The production of rice, the staple crop for the majority of the world’s population, emits large quantities of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Accord...
Searchinger, T.
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Adhya, T.K.
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Linquist, Bruce
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Wassmann, Reiner
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Yan X
,
[Wetting and drying: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and saving water from rice production]
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Wetting and drying: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and saving water from rice production
We conducted a literature review of participatory monitoring and existing PMRV approaches to identify strategies and conditions that support the development and implementation of sustainable PMRV in the REDD+ context. To identify data and processes that should be included in PMRV, we reviewed MRV...
Hawthorne, S.D.
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Boissiere, M.
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[Literature review of participatory measurement, reporting and verification (PMRV)]
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Literature review of participatory measurement, reporting and verification (PMRV)
This paper presents the results of key informant interviews conducted in Tra Hat Climate-Smart Village (CSV) in Vietnam. The interviews aimed to further assess the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices that farmers wanted to adopt on their farms, as well as the factors and barriers for adopti...
Ngo Dang Phong
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Le Minh Duong
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Tran Nhat Lam Duyen
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Wassmann, Reiner
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Sander, Bjoern Ole
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[Key informant analysis for climate smart agriculture practices in Tra Hat Village, Vietnam]
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Key informant analysis for climate smart agriculture practices in Tra Hat Village, Vietnam
Building on existing literature and the analysis of a portfolio of development projects (past and under implementation), this paper reviews the evolution of water user associations (WUAs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), reflecting on the conceptualization of how they operate, and the promised outcom...
Aarnoudse, E.
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Closas, Alvar
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Lefore, Nicole
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[Water user associations: a review of approaches and alternative management options for Sub-Saharan Africa]
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Water user associations: a review of approaches and alternative management options for Sub-Saharan Africa
In 2014, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Southeast Asia (CCAFS SEA) established seven Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) in the region. The CSVs are serving as models of climate-resilient communities and field laboratories of climate-smart agriculture (CS...
Trung, Nguyen Duc
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Villanueva, Jerome
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Khounthavong, Malisa
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Eam, Dyna
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[Evaluation of Climate-Smart Village roving workshop as a farmer-to-farmer learning platform]
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Evaluation of Climate-Smart Village roving workshop as a farmer-to-farmer learning platform
A community-based methodology called the ‘stages of progress’ approach was used to assess household poverty dynamics in 20 communities and for over 1,700 households representing two different ethnic groups in Western Kenya. The objectives of the study were to obtain a better understanding of hous...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Krishna, A.
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Nindo, W.
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[Pathways out of poverty in western Kenya and the role of livestock]
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Pathways out of poverty in western Kenya and the role of livestock
This paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to generate scenarios to 2080. The findings show that ...
Havlík, Petr
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Valin, Hugo
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Gusti M
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Schmid, Erwin
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Leclere D
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Forsell N
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Khabarov, N.
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Mosnier, Aline
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Cantele M
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Obersteiner, Michael
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[Climate change impacts and mitigation in the developing world: an integrated assessment of the agriculture and forestry sectors]
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Climate change impacts and mitigation in the developing world: an integrated assessment of the agriculture and forestry sectors