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Adapting Green Innovation Centres to climate change: analysis of value chain adaptation potential. Potatoes, cocoa, and poultry in Adamawa, Northwest, West and Southwest Cameroon

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December, 2019

The present report aims to provide a climate and vulnerability analysis of the Green Innovation Centres (GIC) target commodity value chains. Herein we identify climate change- related vulnerabilities, hazards, and opportunities for adaptation to the same.

Climate-Smart Cocoa: a gender transformative approach

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December, 2019
Global

In general, government agricultural extension services were low or inadequate in many communities. Farmers reported not having adequate information on sound farm management practices and when they do come, they come in late. The gendered differences on access to information were also evident. Most people who access extension services were men with bigger cocoa farms.

Report on regional learning platform webinar series

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December, 2019
Global

The Programme for Climate-Smart Livestock Systems (PCSL) is an initiative designed to enable key actors in the livestock sector to increasingly include climate change adaptation and mitigation in their farming practices, sector strategies and investment projects. PCSL is financed by GIZ and commissioned by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Adoption of smart-valley approach by rice producers in Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone (Liberia and Sierra Leone are two new countries in 2020)

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December, 2019

Adoption of smart-valley increased from 110 ha in 2012 to 474 ha in 2014. Recent evidence show the approach has reached 45,000 ha in Nigeria. In 2019, the total area increased to 1030.94 hectares in Benin and Togo and adopted by 6110 farmers. In Sierra Leone, the total area tracked was 179.3 hectares and adopted by 460 rice farmers.

Bridging youth and gender studies to analyse rural young women and men's livelihood pathways in Central Uganda

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December, 2019
Global

Many development countries are currently undergoing major demographic shifts as the percentage of young people of the total population rapidly increases. This shift is associated with high rates of migration, unemployment and instability. In policy discourses, engaging youth in commercial agricultural is often presented as a measure to control or even counter these trends.