Plant breeding for the future—the time is now
by Laura Cramer and Philip Thornton Climate change requires that we breed crops and livestock better suited to new conditions. Think about the last food you ate. Maybe it was a meal or maybe you’re...
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Breeding foresight: Exploring opportunities around climate-smart breeding for future food and nutrition security
Background CCAFS Learning Platform 1, “Ex-ante evaluation and decision support for climate-smart options”, is one of six learning platforms in CCAFS, designed as mechanisms to integrate climate...
Scaling digital agriculture to leapfrog adaptation pathways
by Dhanush Dinesh, Ana Maria Loboguerrero (CCAFS) 6 steps to scale digital agriculture solutions and help countries adapt to climate change Digitization of agriculture can play a key role in enabling...
Climate-Smart Village Cauca: an example of agricultural and social transformation
by Lauren Sarruf Romero (CCAFS) We visit the Climate-Smart Village of Cauca with Lighthouse Farm, to learn more about the changes that climate-smart agriculture has brought to this community. The...
Putting seasonal forecasts in the hands of Rwandan farmers
by Yvonne Munyangeri (CIAT-Rwanda), Maren Radeny (CCAFS), Desire Kagabo (CIAT-Rwanda), Seble Samuel (CCAFS) Seasonal forecasts equip Rwandan farmers with tools for informed agricultural decision...
Building resilience across East Africa one seed at a time
by Gloria Otieno (Bioversity International), Tobias Recha (Bioversity International), John Recha (CCAFS), Seble Samuel (CCAFS) Diversity builds resilience. This is true for all living forms; not...
Setting priorities to address the research gaps between agricultural systems analysis and food security outcomes in low- and middle-income countries
Agricultural systems modelers can strengthen their work analyzing food security New working paper assesses the current state of practice for the representation of food security indicators in...
A CCAFS-informed public-private partnership reaches 300,000 farmers with climate information
by Samuel Partey (CCAFS West Africa), Gordon Kotey Nikoi (Esoko) In Ghana, a public-private partnership business model adopted by Esoko has encouraged mass subscription to climate information...
Delivering climate risk information to farmers at scale: the Intelligent agricultural Systems Advisory Tool (ISAT)
Abstract One of the strategies for helping smallholder farmers cope with climate variability and change is the provision of climate services that better decision making around the planning and...
Climate-smart agriculture: in need of a theory of scaling
Ronnie Vernooy Claudia Bouroncle Abstract Since 2011, the CGIAR program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has supported research in different parts of the world on how...
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