A Community Innovation Fund (CIF) is a simple kick-start fund to support farmer interest groups who have limited access to formal financial services for implementing climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices. A CIF can be implemented as sole fund or as co-investment to community savings and loans...
Tam Thi Le
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Simelton, Elisabeth
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Hai Van Le
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[Community Innovation Fund from implementation to scaling out of climate-smart agriculture practices]
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Community Innovation Fund from implementation to scaling out of climate-smart agriculture practices
Reducing hunger and poverty requires effective strategies but many traditional monitoring and evaluation methods are costly, complicated, rigid, slow, and do not include the opinions of the project beneficiaries. The 5Q approach is simple, adaptable, responsive, effective, and better integrates s...
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[The 5Q approach]
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The 5Q approach
The farmer business school (FBS) is a participatory action learning process that involves farmer groups participating in agricultural value chains. As part of capacity strengthening, FBS comprises a series of group‐based experiential learning activities over a production‐marketing cycle while int...
International Potato Center
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[Farmer business school with climate change and gender perspective: Learning and monitoring guide.]
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Farmer business school with climate change and gender perspective: Learning and monitoring guide.
Center for International Forestry Research
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[Simply REDD: CIFOR's guide to forests, climate change and REDD]
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Simply REDD: CIFOR's guide to forests, climate change and REDD
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) seeks to improve productivity for the achievement of food
security (pillar 1: Productivity), to develop a better ability to adapt (pillar 2: Adaptation), and
to limit greenhouse gas emissions (pillar 3: Mitigation). Technical and organizational
innovations are need...
The purpose of this manual is to provide a seven-step methodology to allow family farmers to co-build and adopt CSA options to tackle climate change in an open innovation platform
Andrieu, Nadine
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Howland, Fanny Cecile
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Acosta-Alba, Ivonne
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Le Coq, Jean François
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Osorio, Ana Milena
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Chia, Eduardo
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[Methodological Guide to Co-design Climate-smart Options with Family Farmers]
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Methodological Guide to Co-design Climate-smart Options with Family Farmers
Devereux, T.
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Acosta, M.
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[Manual de las medidas de adaptación al cambio climático practicadas por los campesinos de Asocampo de la cuenca Río Las Piedras, Cauca, Colombia]
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Manual de las medidas de adaptación al cambio climático practicadas por los campesinos de Asocampo de la cuenca Río Las Piedras, Cauca, Colombia
Tanto la región Centroamericana, como Nicaragua, presentan altos niveles de sensibilidad ante los diferentes estímulos climáticos tales como la frecuencia, simultaneidad, intensidad y alcance de múltiples amenazas, en particular las inundaciones, aumento del nivel del mar, eventos meteorológicos ...
Taleno, Sayra
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Aguilar, Amílcar
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[Sesión ECA con familias: Análisis de vulnerabilidad climática1 en sistemas de producción y recursos hídricos en fincas de pequeñas familias productoras.]
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Sesión ECA con familias: Análisis de vulnerabilidad climática1 en sistemas de producción y recursos hídricos en fincas de pequeñas familias productoras.
This manual is intended to provide simple and helpful information, especially to farmers and extension agents, in solving pests and diseases issues on rice production in the context of climate change. The publication tackles: the effects of climate change on agriculture; effects of climatic facto...
Costa, Arnaud
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Thanarajoo, Sathis Sri
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Sivapragasam, Annamalai
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[Pest-Smart Practices and Early Warning System under Climate Change (A Manual for Rice and Other Crops)]
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Pest-Smart Practices and Early Warning System under Climate Change (A Manual for Rice and Other Crops)
Participatory land-use planning (PLUP) refers to a bottom-up method of analyzing land and water resources. In its current form, PLUP integrates inputs about climate change and sea level rise to help the community utilize the resources within its vicinities. In utilizing its resources, the communi...
Hoanh, Chu Thai
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Yen, Bui Tan
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Trung, Nguyen Hieu
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[Participatory Land Use Planning for Climate-Smart Villages: Guidelines and References]
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Participatory Land Use Planning for Climate-Smart Villages: Guidelines and References
This guide is a participatory action learning process that involves farmer groups’ participation in agricultural value chains. As part of capacity strengthening, it comprises a series of group-based experiential learning activities over a production-marketing cycle while interacting with other ch...
International Potato Center
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Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippines
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[Farmer business school with climate change and gender perspective in agroforestry context: Learning guide.]
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Farmer business school with climate change and gender perspective in agroforestry context: Learning guide.