The working document contains the highlights of the 3rd Annual Progress Reporting and Coordination Meeting on CCAFS Projects and Climate-Smart Village Implementation in Southeast Asia held in Hanoi, Vietnam on 20 November 2017. The meeting aimed to bring representatives from different CGIAR cente...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[3rd Annual Progress Reporting and Coordination Meeting on CCAFS Projects and Climate-Smart Village Implementation in Southeast Asia (Working Document)]
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3rd Annual Progress Reporting and Coordination Meeting on CCAFS Projects and Climate-Smart Village Implementation in Southeast Asia (Working Document)
Smallholders’ role in climate change adaptation and mitigation
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has highlighted a critical
trade-off between agricultural development and climate change mitigation. On the one
hand, agriculture, forestry and other kinds of land use (AFOLU) accou...
Chakrabarti, S.
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[The mitigation advantage: maximizing the co-benefits of investing in smallholder adaptation initiatives]
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The mitigation advantage: maximizing the co-benefits of investing in smallholder adaptation initiatives
Climate risk management has become a key area for research and policy dialogue due to increasing threats of disasters and climate extremes, which are likely to increase due to climate change. Global south (including Latin America, Africa, South and South-east Asia) is a major hotspot for climatic...
Vyas, Shalika
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Shirsath, Paresh
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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[South-South Collaboration in CCAFS for developing capacity on weather index insurance]
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South-South Collaboration in CCAFS for developing capacity on weather index insurance
The report documents the activities implemented under the CCAFS SEA-funded climate change radio campaign in the Philippines from July 2018 to April 2019. The report also features the campaign outputs, complementary activities, and the broadcaster’s manual.
Philippine Federation of Rural Broadcasters
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[Climate Change: iBroadkas Mo! Phase 2 (Mobilizing the Rural Sector for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: A Pilot Radio Campaign in the Philippines) - Progress Report]
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Climate Change: iBroadkas Mo! Phase 2 (Mobilizing the Rural Sector for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: A Pilot Radio Campaign in the Philippines) - Progress Report
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is celebrating 50 years of collaborative work with hundreds of partners across the tropics. During 50 years, CIAT has led the development and dissemination of technologies, innovative methods, and new knowledge that better enable farmers to...
The motivation of this report was to highlight the economic rationale to invest in climate change adaptation. To this end the report describes an assessment of the potential cost of climate change impacts on cocoa production in West Africa. There is a hope that by providing a benchmark for the co...
Schreyer, Felix
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Bunn, Christian
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Castro-Llanos, Fabio
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[The economic case for climate action in West-African cocoa production]
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The economic case for climate action in West-African cocoa production
Globally, agriculture is the mainstay of most well planned economies because it contributes significantly to the national GDP, creates employment, provides food for human sustenance, raw materials for industry and earns foreign exchange. Nigeria is blessed with tremendous agricultural resources s...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Abubakar Y
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Conway, G.
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Dziba L
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Hoevel M
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Ibe C
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Ibrahim A
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Olokor J
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Ifeijka Speranza, Chinwe
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[National Agricultural Resilience Framework]
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National Agricultural Resilience Framework
Brown, H.C.P.
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Nkem, J.
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Sonwa, D.J.
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Bele, Y.
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[Institutional dynamics and climate change in the Congo Basin Forest of Cameroon, West Africa]
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Institutional dynamics and climate change in the Congo Basin Forest of Cameroon, West Africa
The effects of climate change on crop and terrestrial food production are evident in several regions of the world (high confidence). Negative impacts of climate trends have been more common than positive ones. Positive trends are evident in some highlatitude regions (high confidence). Since AR4, ...
Porter JR
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Xie L
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Challinor, Andrew J.
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Cochrane, K.
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Howden SM
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Iqbal MM
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Lobell, David B.
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Travasso, Maria
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[Food security and food production systems]
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Food security and food production systems
Considering projected population trends, food requirements in East Africa will drastically increase in the coming decades (van Ittersum et al., 2016). One way to ensure supply will meet demand is by raising crop yields in the region. In East Africa, agricultural yields still have large potential ...
Hijbeek, Renske
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Berge, Hein F.M. ten
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Loon, Marloes P. van
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Ittersum, Martin K. van
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[Developing a running prototype of a bio-economic farm model for a trade-off analysis of different nutrient management options for maize cultivation in East-Africa]
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Developing a running prototype of a bio-economic farm model for a trade-off analysis of different nutrient management options for maize cultivation in East-Africa