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On December 4 2010, in connection to the COP 16 in Cancún, Mexico, Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and partners organised a one-day event with the objective to identify policies and practical solutions to reduce agriculture-related greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen glo...

Through including conservational farming techniques in the field farmer Margaret Silas was able to increase her yields. Conservational farming has now become integral in her farming activities.

Tanzanian policy makers came together from 16 to 17 February in Morogoro, Tanzania for a workshop that focused on scenario-guided policy development in the context of climate change to work on Tanzania’s New Environmental Policy. This workshop is part of CCAFS’ PACCA project (Policy Action for Cl...

Report back from Farmers Day Africa CSA Alliance side event at the UN Climate Change Conference. Photos: V. Atakos (CCAFS). Read more about this meeting: Innovative climate change partnerships bring hope for smallholder farmers in Africa.

On 8 August 2014 The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), East Africa hosted an Ethiopian Government delegation at Nyando climate-smart villages, one of the program’s learning sites in East Africa. The delegation visited several farmers and saw how di...

In Mali, a first workshop has been carried out between the 18th and 19th of November 2014. The event gathered 30 participants representing ministries, local governments, research institutions, NGOs, funders, in order to prioritize 10 to 15 CSA practices. Photos: S. Touré (CCAFS West Africa)

One year ago, a team of researchers from the University of Reading, in UK, and local partners in Tanzania, organised a number of participatory trainings for smallscale farmers on climate-services and information. The trainings were held in villages outside of Dodoma, Tanzania, which is a very ari...