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This Info Note explores major barriers for effective climate change policy implementation in Ghana, Mali and Senegal with a particular focus on agriculture and food systems. It aims to provide insights to researchers, policy makers and development practitioners working on climate change issues an...


Totin, EdmondSibiry Traoré, Pierre C.Zougmoré, Robert B.Homann-Kee Tui, SabineTabo, RamadjitaSchubert, Cecilia[Barriers to effective climate change policy development and implementation in West Africa]Barriers to effective climate change policy development and implementation in West Africa

This extensive project has struck up collaborations across Latin America to assist policy makers incorporate the latest climate and agriculture science and tools in national adaptation and mitigation plans.


CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security[Supporting climate-resilient food systems policies and institutions in Latin America]Supporting climate-resilient food systems policies and institutions in Latin America

El siguiente informe abordará los resultados del primer y segundo taller de Priorización de Inversiones en Agricultura Sostenible Adaptada al Clima realizados los días 7 de Agosto de 2014 y 18 de Junio de 2015 respectivamente, en Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala. A través de las secciones se presen...


Lizarazo, MiguelCorner-Dolloff, CaitlinNowak, AndreeaLoboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana MaríaRojas, EMejia, MSain, GMartínez Barón, DeissyAndrieu, NadineHowland, Fanny CecileBonilla Findji, OsanaJarvis, Andy[Informe final: Priorizando inversiones en agricultura sostenible adaptada al clima en Guatemala]Informe final: Priorizando inversiones en agricultura sostenible adaptada al clima en Guatemala

Because vulnerability is a conceptual construct rather than a directly observable phenomenon, most vulnerability assessments measure a set of “vulnerability indicators”. In order to identify the core approaches and range of variation in the field, we conducted a systematic literature review on lo...


Delaney, A.Chesterman, SabrinaCrane, Todd A.Tamás, Peter A.Ericksen, Polly J.[A systematic review of local vulnerability to climate change: in search of transparency, coherence and comparability]A systematic review of local vulnerability to climate change: in search of transparency, coherence and comparability

The contemporary concern about anthropogenic release of greenhouse gas (GHG) into the environment and the contribution of livestock to this phenomenon have sparked animal scientists’ interest in predicting methane (CH4) emissions by ruminants. Focusing on milk production, we address six basic nut...


Tedeschi, L.O.Herrero, Mario T.Thornton, Philip K.[An Overview of Dairy Cattle Models for Predicting Milk Production: Their Evolution, Evaluation, and Application for the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) for Livestock.]An Overview of Dairy Cattle Models for Predicting Milk Production: Their Evolution, Evaluation, and Application for the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) for Livestock.

Climate change is a major development challenge to Ethiopia. Climate change is expected to adversely affect all economic sectors, eco-regions, and social groups. Agriculture is one of the most vulnerable sectors as it is highly dependent on rainfall. This report synthesises four case studies focu...


Bewket WRadeny, Maren A.O.Mungai, C[Agricultural Adaptation and Institutional Responses to Climate Change Vulnerability in Ethiopia]Agricultural Adaptation and Institutional Responses to Climate Change Vulnerability in Ethiopia

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Theme Linking Knowledge with Action (K2A) engaged in a two-year social learning process to develop tools, best practices and capacity building trainings around gender sensitive and participatory research for clima...


Ferdous, N.Jost, ChristineKristjanson, Patricia M.[Closing the Relevance Gap: Lessons in Co-Developing Gender Transformative Research Approaches with Development Partners and Communities]Closing the Relevance Gap: Lessons in Co-Developing Gender Transformative Research Approaches with Development Partners and Communities

The Climate Change and Social Learning Initiative is a cross-organisation group working to build a body of evidence on how social learning methodologies and approaches contribute towards development targets. Together with a select number of participating initiatives from a variety of organisation...


Epp, Marissa vanGarside, Ben[Monitoring and Evaluating Social Learning: A Framework for Cross-Initiative Application]Monitoring and Evaluating Social Learning: A Framework for Cross-Initiative Application

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) engaged stakeholders in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the development of regional socioeconomic scenarios for policy development. These scenarios were framed and outlined by regional experts and then quantifie...


Palazzo, AmandaVervoort, Joost M.Havlík, PetrMason-D'Croz, DanielIslam, Shahnila[Simulating stakeholder-driven food and climate scenarios for policy development in Africa, Asia and Latin America A multi-regional synthesis]Simulating stakeholder-driven food and climate scenarios for policy development in Africa, Asia and Latin America A multi-regional synthesis

This paper analyses gender differences in awareness and adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices. It examines what factors are associated with the likelihood of adoption of a wide range of CSA practices for 376 women and 375 men in two different areas of Kenya. This information is a...


Bernier, QuinnMeinzen-Dick, Ruth S.Kristjanson, Patricia M.Haglund, EKovarik, C.Bryan, ElisabethRingler, ClaudiaSilvestri, Silvia[Gender and Institutional Aspects of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices: Evidence from Kenya]Gender and Institutional Aspects of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices: Evidence from Kenya

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