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  1. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 2015

    Agriculture remains vital to the economy of most African countries and its development

    has significant implications for food security and poverty reduction in the region. Increase

    in agricultural production over the past decades has mainly been due to land area expansion,

    with very little change in production techniques and limited improvement in yields.

    Currently one in four people remains malnourished in Africa. CSA integrates all three dimensions of sustainable development and is aimed at (1)

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2014
    Africa, Eastern Asia, Southern Africa, Western Africa

    Transitioning to climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in the African context requires a transformational architecture — a systematic shift away from business as usual and a comprehensive programme for building the adaptive capacity of physical, socio-economic, human and institutional dimensions of farming systems. Manyewu Mutamba of the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU) and Mainza Mugoya of the Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) argue that African agriculture is long overdue for a radical transformation to increase productivity sustainably.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2016
    Burkina Faso, Mali, Africa, Western Africa

    The livestock sector is one of the major contributors in agriculture, by some estimates

    contributing up to 18% of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Of this, about one

    third is reported to be due to land use change associated with livestock production, another

    one third is nitrous oxide from manure and slurry management, and roughly 25% is attributed

    to methane emissions from ruminant digestion. Recent analysis suggests that developing

    world regions contribute about two thirds of the global emissions from ruminants, with sub-

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2012

    JRC, CCAFS jointly sponsored the workshop on June 13-14, 2012, at the JRC in Ispra, Italy, to identify avenues for exploiting remote sensing information to improving crop forecasting in smallholder farming environments. The workshop’s objectives were:

  5. Library Resource

    Climate change adaptation in agriculture: practices and technologies. Messages to the SBSTA 44 agriculture workshops

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2016

    In this info note we provide a brief overview of key

    agricultural practices and technologies which enhance

    productivity in a sustainable manner, thus contributing to

    food security and environmental goals while increasing

    the resilience of farming systems.

    A twinned info note considers

    higher-level measures of

    adaptation in agriculture, such

    as policies and institutions. Updated: November 2016.

    Both info notes are drawn from

    longer working papers, all

    freely available to download at

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    April, 2014
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia, Western Africa

    Mixed crop?livestock systems produce most of the world’s milk and ruminant meat, and are
    particularly important for the livelihoods and food security of poor people in developing
    countries. These systems will bear the brunt of helping to satisfy the burgeoning demand
    for food from increasing populations, particularly in sub?Saharan Africa and South Asia,
    where rural poverty and hunger are already concentrated. The potential impacts of changes
    in climate and climate variability on these mixed systems are not that well understood,

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2015

    This Working Paper summarizes projected climate change impacts on livestock across
    Africa, using a combination of literature review and some new results on the projected
    impacts of climate change on the rangelands of Africa. Findings show that there are
    many options that can help livestock keepers adapt, but there appear to be no options
    that are widely applicable which do not have constraints to their adoption. An
    enabling technical and policy environment will thus be needed to ensure livestock

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2009

    Agriculture – on which we all depend for our food – is under threat from climate change. There is no doubt that systems worldwide will have to adapt, but while consumers may barely notice in developed countries, millions of people in developing countries face a very real and direct threat to their food security and livelihoods. Even without climate change, many agricultural systems in developing countries are nearing crisis point. Feeding a rapidly rising global population is taking a heavy toll on farmlands, rangelands, fisheries and forests. Water is becoming scarce in many regions.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2015
    Ethiopia, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Africa

    This document series compiles key indicators from the three levels of the baseline for each site. Indicators include: demography and basic site characteristics of each site, rainfall distribution, changes in farming practices and land management, income sources, food security and food

    sources, asset ownership by households and involvement in organisations and more. This CCAFS baseline indicator document was developed for the CCAFS site at Borana/Yabero, in Ethiopia.

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