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Initiated in 2007, the Maarifa Centres (Maarifa is the Swahili word for knowledge) are a project that aims through multimedia tools, to facilitate the exchange of ideas, experiences, and knowledge among communities to enhance learning for improved socio-economic empowerment. The project involves ...


Harvey, BlaneEnsor, JonathanCarlile, LizGarside, BenPatterson, ZacharyNaess, Lars Otto[Maarifa Knowledge Centres]Maarifa Knowledge Centres

“Climate Analogues: Finding Tomorrow’s Agriculture Today” is an effort by CCAFS to make climate change adaptation a more tangible endeavour by encouraging the exchange of knowledge between communities. The idea is that the “analogues tool” helps to identify geographic areas where growing conditio...


Harvey, BlaneEnsor, JonathanCarlile, LizGarside, BenPatterson, ZacharyNaess, Lars Otto[Climate analogues: finding tomorrow’s agriculture today]Climate analogues: finding tomorrow’s agriculture today

Wijk, Mark T. vanHammond, JamesFrelat, RomainFraval, SimonTeufel, NilsTavenner, KatieHenderson, Benjamin B.[Smallholder farmers, food security, and livelihoods: Exploring trade offs and synergies using farm household characterization data]Smallholder farmers, food security, and livelihoods: Exploring trade offs and synergies using farm household characterization data
Autor: Ekong, J.

Research of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and its partners shows that growing coffee and banana together is generating >50% more income for smallholder farmers and can help them cope with the effects of climate change. However, turning research into action on the grou...


Ekong, J.[Putting banana-coffee intercropping research into action]Putting banana-coffee intercropping research into action

Kabarole Research Centre (KRC, an NGO) started a radio food security awareness raising campaign for farmer groups in Western Uganda. More than 144 radio drama series on the topic of food security were performed and aired on radio as an entertaining means of discussing the topic. Listener demand ...


Harvey, BlaneEnsor, JonathanGarside, BenWoodend, JohnNaess, Lars OttoCarlile, Liz[Creative communications campaign fostering social learning loops]Creative communications campaign fostering social learning loops

CCAFS and CIAT provided technical and policy recommendations on the land productivity component of the Colombian Green Growth Policy, which was launched in July 2018. The current National Development Plan states a focus on financial instruments for sustainable agricultural activities that include...


CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security[CCAFS science informs the Green Growth Policy in Colombia]CCAFS science informs the Green Growth Policy in Colombia

Improved understanding of animal nutrition allowed policy makers and a producer organization to develop low emissions forage options in Colombia. As part of CCAFS Low Emissions Development Flagship, CIAT’s LivestockPlus project adjusted a model for digestion and metabolism for the types of livest...


CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security[Colombia refines NDC mitigation options and develops sustainable livestock strategy]Colombia refines NDC mitigation options and develops sustainable livestock strategy

Based on directives issued by the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the Department of Crop Production, the rice planting calendar in the Mekong River Delta was adjusted to avoid salinity intrusion brought by the 2019 El Niño.


CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security[600,000 hectares of rice planted earlier in Vietnam to avoid risk of salinity intrusion from the 2019 El Niño]600,000 hectares of rice planted earlier in Vietnam to avoid risk of salinity intrusion from the 2019 El Niño

The Ghanaian cocoa sector under the leadership of the Ghanaian Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) made important strides towards climate resilience. Exposure maps developed jointly with CCAFS were combined with exposure gradient specific climate-smart agriculture practices in a national training manual of obl...


CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security[CCAFS science supports Ghana's steps towards climate-resilient cocoa production for 800,000 farmers]CCAFS science supports Ghana's steps towards climate-resilient cocoa production for 800,000 farmers

Kenya’s State Department of Livestock is catalyzing investments of USD 223 million in Kenya’s dairy sector, based on CCAFS research and support, for the development of a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) in the dairy sector. After a two-year process, the government of Kenya has reac...


CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security[Kenya’s State Department of Livestock catalyzes investments of USD 223 million in the dairy sector]Kenya’s State Department of Livestock catalyzes investments of USD 223 million in the dairy sector

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