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CCAFS Climate Smart Agriculture 2014 Annual Report
In 2014, as the focus on climate-smart agriculture sharpened, CCAFS helped advance the concept and practice in farmers’ fields and in global initiatives, through close collaboration with farmers, civil society, governments and researchers.
Link - Participant's Manual: USAID Climate-Smart Agriculture/Best Management Practices Workshop
This Participant's Manual serves as a guiding instrument to inform and facilitate the workshop. It has been designed to assist participants throughout CSA/BMPs workshop's activities.
Lake Naivasha Payment for Environmental Services - Farmers Helping Farmers and the Environment
In this successful payment for watershed services (PES/PWS) pilot program, CARE-Kenya, World Wildlife Fund, and the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture helped major commercial horticulture growers (flowers) on the banks of Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley test a program to…
Getting Smart About Change: Climate and Agriculture
At the 2014 Feed the Future Global Forum, Dennis Garrity, United Nations Drylands Ambassador and Former Executive Director of the World Agroforestry Centre, moderated a panel on the importance of addressing the current and future threats of climate change in…
December's 32 Top Resources: Climate | Adaptation | CS Ag. | Forestry | Finance | Winter Training | Water - The Center for Sutainable Development
We have so many excellent resources come through CSDi that we periodically compile them and share them in an occasional, special newsletter.
New Agriculturist
New Agriculturist, WRENmedia's on-line magazine on international agricultural issues, has become a key reference point for the research and development community. Established in 1998, New Agriculturist covers agricultural and rural development/livelihood issues, both policy and technical, relating specifically to developing countries.
New Agriculturist: Points of View - Climate Smart Agriculture
Is CSA to be a useful term for stimulating and guiding change, or just another fashionable phrase with a short shelf-life? It potentially calls for a radical transformation of farming systems, but how might this be funded and scaled up?…
The Center for Sustainable Development: OL 333 - Climate Smart Agriculture
Climate Smart Agriculture. Depleted soils, unreliable access to water, outmoded agricultural practices and a lack of coping strategies for adapting to a changing climate are leading to reduced agricultural productivity, income generation, and food security for smallholder farmers worldwide.
World Tracker: Farmers struggle to adopt climate-smart methods
Preliminary results from a project aimed at helping Malawi, Vietnam and Zambia make the transition to a "climate-smart" approach to agriculture show that some farmers are struggling to adopt the new methods, while others are finding ways to cope well…
COP17 Climate-smart agriculture trailer - ARDD 2011
Why is climate-smart agriculture important, and can it work? Watch this 3 minute trailer for an insight into what the challenges are, and where the solutions might lie. Originally produced to introduce the Learning Events section of Agriculture and Rural…
Burkina Faso Farmers Lead the Way on Food Security and Climate Change Resilience
If you want to know how to grow crops in the face of climate change, drought, and land degradation, ask Ousséni Kindo, Ousséni Zoromé, or Yacouba Sawadogo—three farmers in Burkina Faso’s Yatenga region. Policy makers, researchers, and NGO representatives gathered…
Study Predicts Changes in Seasonal Monsoon Precipitation in Nepal
Innovation Lab researchers Shih-Yu Wang and Robert Gillies (Utah State University) used a set of century-long reanalysis and observations to learn more about the role of the 12-year oscillation cycle in the monsoon precipitation regime in Nepal as well as…
Growing Innovation, Harvesting Results: Feed the Future’s Progress in 2012
Feed the Future was born of the belief that global hunger is solvable. Announced by President Obama during his visit to Senegal, the new Feed the Future progress report highlights real progress and results like never before and shows how…
Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture, CSA.org at FAO
Achieving food security and responding to the challenges of climate change are two goals that must be achieved together. That’s why agriculture, fisheries and forestry in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation As population is on the rise food…
Conservation Agriculture and Bioreclamation of Degraded Lands in Senegal: restoring productivity and resilience of degraded lands to improve nutrition and women's incomes
Yaajeende is a Feed the Future project focusing on vulnerable women to provide them with access to land for producing nutritious food and earning income during the rainy season. The project works with communities to allocate degraded, abandoned lands to…
India's rice revolution – audio slideshow
Farmers in parts of India are breaking growing records, using less seed, less water, and compost as fertiliser. This ground-breaking method of cultivation, developed in Madagascar, is boosting yields and changing lives for the farmers. Norman Uphoff, professor at Cornell…
Final Call: CSDi Fall Academy, 2012
Starting October 30 SCDi offers an intensive series of online field courses with other students from all over the world. Students from over 425 organizations in 140 countries have used these courses to develop projects impacting over 260,000 people.
PARIMA - Pastoral Risk Management in Southern Ethiopia
Pastoral people have lived on the Borana Plateau of southern Ethiopia for centuries. But their traditional way of life is threatened by recurrent droughts, human and livestock population growth, and increased competition --even armed conflict--over ever-scarcer pasture and water. The…
Beauty and the Beef: Achieving Compatibility Between Wildlife Conservation and Livestock Production
African farmers living in areas with wildlife are faced with a serious dilemma: they cannot sell their healthy, free range beef to the lucrative export market. Current international trade practices dictate that they cannot protect the wildlife and, at the…
Video: Pastoralist Voices on Climate Change
Pastoralist Voices on Climate Change illustrates the collaborative and participatory process between scientists and pastoralists in Kenya, documenting two collaborative workshops whereby local land users directly inform the scientific process and climate change science, which, in turn, feeds back to…
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