At the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture in Bali, CCAFS, IFAD and USDA-FAS organized the Side event “Accelerating innovation development and scaling climate-smart agriculture to drive a transformation in food systems”. High-level representatives of > 20 governments, resea...
Koerner, Jana
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Dinesh, Dhanush
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Firmian, Ilaria
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Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin
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[Accelerating innovation development and scaling processes for agricultural transformation]
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Accelerating innovation development and scaling processes for agricultural transformation
The brief documents the experience of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) and its farmer co-operator in implementing the Native Pigs Initiative in Guinayangan Climate-Smart Village in Quezon Province, Philippines. The main objective of the project is to develop an evidence-...
International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
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[Climate Smart Agriculture: Models for Empowering Women Livestock Producers]
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Climate Smart Agriculture: Models for Empowering Women Livestock Producers
The brief tackles the role of agroforestry in achieving food and nutritional security, climate change mitigation and environmental resilience. The publication is based on the small agroforestry project in Guinayangan Climate-Smart Village in Quezon Province, Philippines implemented by the Interna...
Timely interventions and support to farmers are urgently required to mitigate these events. Given the national economic, food security, nutritional and health importance of crop production, there is an opportunity for national policies on agriculture and climate change to support a more robust an...
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, Kenya
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[Policy options for building resilience of crop production under climate change]
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Policy options for building resilience of crop production under climate change
The System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP) of the CGIAR coordinated the development of a background study paper entitled ‘The Impact of Climate Change on Countries Interdependence on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture’ for the Twelfth Session of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resou...
Fujisaka, S.
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Williams, D.
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Halewood, Michael
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[The impact of climate change on countries’ interdependence on genetic resources for food and agriculture: An executive summary]
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The impact of climate change on countries’ interdependence on genetic resources for food and agriculture: An executive summary
The Dry Corridor in Central America has been affected by recurrent severe droughts in the last two years, which have particularly affected maize and bean production, threatening the food and nutrition security of approximately 2.5 million people in the region. Over 50% of the people affected are ...
As a step towards building climate resilience, a USAID funded project aimed at scaling out climate-smart agriculture through the CSV approach in Madhya Pradesh in India, is providing an enabling platform to women farmers to manage and lead climate change adaptation and mitigation interventions in...
Chanana, Nitya
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Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
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Pande, Kunal
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Joshi, Rajashree
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[Integrating Gender into the Climate-Smart Village Approach of Scaling out Adaptation Options in Agriculture]
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Integrating Gender into the Climate-Smart Village Approach of Scaling out Adaptation Options in Agriculture
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,
Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), with CIAT, Sustainable Food Lab and Rainforest Alliance, are promoting increased
smallholder coffee farmer adoption of Climate Smart Agricult...
This brief summarizes findings of a mission of MSc fellows in support of the project entitled ‘Adapting Agriculture to Climate Today, for Tomorrow (ACToday) in Ethiopia’ led by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) of Columbia University and implemented in collaborati...
Climate change fundamentally shifts the agricultural development agenda. Changing temperature and precipitation, sea level rise, and the rising frequency of extreme climate events will significantly reduce global food production in this century unless action is taken. Major investments, private an...