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WLE knowledge management and communication (KMC) meeting 2015

Conference Papers & Reports
May, 2015
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Scaling up index insurance for smallholder farmers: Recent evidence and insights

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Rwanda, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mongolia, Senegal, Tanzania, Western Africa, Africa, Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
agriculture
rangelands
This report explores evidence and insights from five case studies that have made significant recent progress in addressing the challenge of insuring poor smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the developing world. In India, national index insurance programmes have reached over 30 million farmers through a mandatory link with agricultural credit and strong government support. In East Africa (Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania), the Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise (ACRE) has recently scaled to reach nearly 200,000 farmers, bundling index insurance with agricultural credit and farm inputs.
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Revitalizing the Ganges coastal zone: turning science into policy and practices

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2015
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Research in development: learning from the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Bangladesh, Solomon Islands, Zambia
natural resources management
capacity development
farmers
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Putting ecosystems into the SDGs

Reports & Research
October, 2015
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Proceedings of the CPWF, GBDC, WLE Conference on Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone: Turning Science into Policy and Practices, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21-23 October 2015

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2015
Bangladesh, Southern Asia
agricultural land management
farmers
natural resources management
water management
coastal areas
fisheries
farming systems
climate change
women
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Identifying constraining and enabling factors to the uptake of medium- and long-term climate information in decision making

Reports & Research
June, 2015
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
food security
agriculture
rangelands
We apply a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature to assess constraining and enabling

factors to the uptake of medium- to long-term climate information in a wide range of sectoral

investment and planning decisions. Common applications of climate information are shown to

relate to adaptation of environmental policy and planning, urban planning and infrastructure,

as well as flood and coastal management. Analysis of identified literature highlights five
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Gender and Institutional Aspects of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices: Evidence from Kenya

Reports & Research
May, 2015
Kenya, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
food security
agriculture
rangelands
This paper analyses gender differences in awareness and adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices. It examines what factors are associated with the likelihood of adoption of a wide range of CSA practices for 376 women and 375 men in two different areas of Kenya. This information is aimed at improving the targeting and design of interventions that are trying to achieve greater and more equitable agricultural development in East Africa and elsewhere.
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Gender policies and implementation in agriculture, natural resources and poverty reduction

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Ghana
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Designing for value: Structuring voluntary certification programs to increase stakeholder acceptance

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Brazil, Indonesia, Asia, South-Eastern Asia, South America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
climate change
agriculture
Voluntary certification programs are one type of intervention used to incentivize the commodity agricultural sector in tropical forest landscapes to reduce deforestation and improve sustainability. These programs encourage supply-chain actors to produce and source products according to agreed standards. We review the cases of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) voluntary certification program in Indonesia, and the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) voluntary certification program for cattle in Brazil.