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Helene Nana is a female farmer from the Yatenga province in Burkina Faso. She describes in the video how she moved from famine to have more than enough income to get her children to school. This was accomplished through crop diversification and from growing vegetables to complement the rainy's se...

Hermann Togo, a social worker in charge of CEF the "Conseil Á  l'Exploitation Familiale" (Advise for Family Enterprises), a farmers' union, talks about how they help farmers make informed decisions, and adapt to changes in the climate. One way the union has helped the farmers is through the farme...

A new research project by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) will be looking at the linkages between climate adaptation and livestock science, policy and practice. The three-year project is part of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCA...

Mahamane Diallo is a cattle farmer from the village Bouwéré in Mali. In the video he talks about how the villagers have had to change the way they feed the cattle because of the reduced space to graze due to the scarcity of water. Instead of feeding of grass the cattle is now allowed to feed on t...

Ganame Ousseni is a farmer from Ninigui village in Burkina Faso. He describes the importance for farmers to heard cattle and how the climate change is forcing them to change their practice and to become decisive producers by both working in agriculture and raising cattle.

Introduction by Frank Rijsberman, CEO of CGIAR, at the Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change event held 19 March 2015 in Paris. Read more about the event: http://bit.ly/18SCcGG

Naakpi Kuunwena is a farmer from the village Koyukuo in Ghana, who talks in the video about the changes in the climate. He is especially concerned about the changed rainfall pattern and the lack of water and irrigation infrastructure such as a dam. An irrigation system is needed to deal with the ...

Session VI - 'Big data and climate change: Big words or big opportunity? Innovative approaches to disseminating CSA practices and advisories' by Jacob van Etten, from Bioversity International Filmed at the annual Science meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Foo...

Yusif Hadi is a dedicated cattle and agriculture farmer from the village Koyukuo in Ghana. He talks about by the lack of rainfall, the consequences on the animal feed and how they are changing the feeding habits of the heard supplementing the fodder with maize husks and groundnut tops. Another wa...

Amadou Fane is both a farmer and a blacksmith from the village of Bouwéré in Mali. He describes how he built a seeder to use micro-dosing technique on his farm and how this has helped to optimize the use of fertilizers as well as increase his yields. The seeder and the new techniques in farming w...