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Enhancing climate information services for agriculture and disaster risk reduction in Rwanda: Assessment of smallholder farmers and DRR actors’ access, use and impacts
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176430
Publication year
2021
Authors
Mvuyibwami, Patrick
Kagabo, Desire M
Byandaga, Livingstone
Full Citation
Mvuyibwami, P.; Kagabo, D.M.; Byandaga, L. (2021) Enhancing climate information…
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Assessing the current conditions of weather and climate information services in East Africa: Household survey
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176425
Abstract
The Enhancing Climate Resilience in East Africa (ECREA) project seeks to strengthen resilience by improving access to Weather and Climate Information Services (WCIS) and Impact-Based Early Warnings (IBEWs) tailored for farming communities. A baseline household survey involving over 800 participants across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania examined adaptive capacity, resilience,…
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Three signatures, one vision: The Alliance strengthens its ties in West and Central Africa
Fatimata Kone
During the Africa Food Systems Forum (AFS Forum 2025), the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT formalized agreements with CORAF, Côte d’Ivoire’s Ministry of Water and Forests, and Senegal’s Ministry of Agriculture. These partnerships reflect a shared vision: building sustainable, resilient, and…
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Estrategias de conservación de suelos en agroecosistemas amazónicos: Un enfoque etnoecológico
María Alejandra Bedoya Lancheros*
En las estribaciones amazónicas del Caquetá, los investigadores estudiaron las estrategias de conservación del suelo de los campesinos para entender cómo el conocimiento local y los factores socioecológicos impulsan prácticas sostenibles en medio de los desafíos climáticos y de uso de la…
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From beans to businesses: How the Alliance is growing entrepreneurs in Malawi
Nkhambule Emily
On Sept 5, 2025, the Alliance won Malawi’s “Best Incubation and Capacity Building” award for its BA4Y project, which empowers youth startups and SMEs with funding, training, and mentorship to drive jobs and resilient businesses…
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CIAT renews historic host-country agreement with Malawi, strengthening 30-year partnership for food systems transformation
Bonney Tunya
LILONGWE, MALAWI 15th Sept. 2025 – The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), on behalf of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, has signed a landmark Host-Country Agreement with the Government of Malawi, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,…
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From ideas to impact: Co-creating IGAD’s innovation hub for pastoralist resilience
Charlotte Schumann
IGAD, with the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, is co-creating an AI-powered innovation hub under BREFONS to help pastoralist communities in the Horn of Africa build resilience to climate, market, and livestock challenges.
Pastoralist…
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Advancing policy solutions that work for people and nature
Boaz S. Waswa, Liz Ogutu, Lisa Elena Fuchs, Owen Kimani
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT hosted The Nature Conservancy team in Nairobi to explore joint policy solutions that balance food security, poverty reduction, and conservation for resilient food systems in Africa…
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CGIAR outlines strategic opportunities to G20 ministers for sustainable livestock
James Stapleton (Alliance), Rob Vos (IFPRI)
Cape Town, South Africa, Sept. 18th, 2025 – Investment in improved livestock practices can deliver a dual benefit for farmers and the environment, as demonstrated by CGIAR researchers to agriculture ministers at G20. Evidence shows that sustainable livestock interventions have the…
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Rooted in beans, rising in business: How a family in Goma is growing bean empire
Napoleon Kajunju, Jean Claude Rubyogo, Bola Amoke Awotide
Lydie Mulonda, Paulin Njingulura, Julie Ntamwinja, Lucky Kalisya
Rooted in beans, a family in Goma turns a small idea into a thriving business. With support from B4WE, ABECHA is now boosting nutrition, creating jobs, and empowering…
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Promoting peace and climate resilience in a post-conflict region of the Philippines
Marianne Gadeberg
In the post-conflict Mindanao region, Philippine authorities are working to reintegrate into society those communities living in former rebel strongholds. Alliance of Bioversity researchers, through the CGIAR Research Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR), in collaboration with Mindanao State University…
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Escucha: la inteligencia artificial y el mejoramiento de cultivos
Anastacia Theuri
David Guerena se unió a Astro Teller en el podcast de X para hablar de Artemis, un proyecto de mejoramiento de cultivos en África impulsado por IA, que demuestra la importancia de la innovación impulsada por los agricultores.
Cuando una de las voces más influyentes de la…
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Kenya approves ‘Camello’ and ‘Massai’ forage cultivars for registration
Solomon Waweru Mwendia, An Maria Omer Notenbaert
Michael Peters, Peggy Karimi
Forage grasses Urochloa hybrid cv. Camello and Megathyrsus maximus cv. Massai have been officially released for use in Kenya. This follows extensive two-year evaluations under Kenya’s National Performance Trials (NPT) led by the Kenya Plant…
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Hoja de ruta de talleres para el Cumplimiento del EUDR y Monitoreo de Deforestación en Parcelas de Cacao
Jhon Jairo Tello, Yovita Ivanova
El proyecto ARC (Agroecological Regenerative Cocoa) es una iniciativa desarrollada por un consorcio de instituciones que tiene como objetivo principal establecer una producción de cacao de excelencia, sostenible y libre de deforestación. A través de un enfoque de gestión…
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How Kenyan farmers are shaping a resilient future
Gloria Otieno, Yosef Gebrehawaryat Kidane, José Luis Urrea-Benítez
As featured on the popular Kenyan TV show Shamba Shape Up, this is the story of a group of farmers in Nyando, Kisumu County, are transforming fragmented farms into thriving hubs of innovation—and conserving the seeds of tomorrow.
A land once…
