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Bulletin Builder: Insights from Bulletin Builder usability testing
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180624
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The Bulletin Builder is an open, web-based platform designed to automate the creation of agroclimatic bulletins. Usability testing of this tool was conducted in two countries, Vietnam and Guatemala, to assess the intuitiveness, understandability, and alignment with users’ mental models of the platform’s interface, workflow, and visual design. In Vietnam, seven participants from regional and national agricultural…
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The seed system landscape for improved forages in Vietnam: Threats, trends, and opportunities
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155104
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Cattle farming has provided several benefits to Southeast Asian societies, such as draught power, food security, meat, milk, income generation, and status. In view of the growing demand for beef in response to the region's economic development, especially in countries like Vietnam, the sustainable intensification of beef production emerges as a road map to improve communities'…
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Are demonstration plots useful for learning & scaling the adoption of improved forages?
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162749
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Within the Grass 2 Cash @Scale project, we established over 2,400 forage demonstration plots or farms across Kenya and Uganda. On each established plot the project provided at least three varieties of Brachiaria hybrids, Brachiaria cultivars, Panicum maximum, and (in some cases) forage legumes and trees. Initially, there was limited information on the location, current state, and utilization of…
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CIAT and grupo papalotla: A 25-year collaboration shaping a tropical forages culture
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159493
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The aim of this poster is to recount the history of 25 years of institutional, scientific, and commercial relationship between the Tropical Forages research program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the Mexican company Grupo Papalotla developing Urochloa hybrids. Through the research, it was possible to historically systematize the innovations made in the science of forages…
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Un nuevo banco de semillas comunitario indígena para todos en Cumbal, Colombia
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179666
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En las exuberantes tierras altas del sur de Colombia, los agricultores se enfrentan a apremiantes problemas de seguridad alimentaria y de semillas, agravados por la disminución de la diversidad de cultivos y el limitado intercambio de semillas entre agricultores. En respuesta, un nuevo banco de semillas comunitario pretende conservar las semillas locales, enriquecer la agrobiodiversidad y fomentar el intercambio…
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Cattle ranching in Colombia: A monolithic industry?
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121081
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This article analyzes literature on the history of cattle ranching and agricultural innovation adoption in Colombia to understand how livestock production systems have evolved from the 1950s until today. Departing from new scholarship that has questioned the idea that cattle ranching has been only a land-grabbing strategy dominated by few elites, this article focuses on the adoption of improved pastures and the role of key institutions…
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Tracking finance for locally led climate action in Kenya: Existing initiative, challenges and recommendations
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180613
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The report summarizes Kenya’s current progress and gaps in tracking finance for locally led climate action, based on a document review and a multi-stakeholder workshop. It finds that while Kenya has begun strengthening national climate-finance transparency through climate budget tagging in IFMIS (Climate Change Budget Coding) and the development of a Climate Finance Information…
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Boletines agroclimáticos comunitarios de Santa Rosa y Chimaltenango (Guatemala): Compilación de boletines para la primera y segunda época de lluvias
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180620
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Desde 2023, en los departamentos de Santa Rosa y Chimaltenango (Guatemala), se ha desarrollado un proceso continuo de codiseño e implementación de boletines agroclimáticos comunitarios, dirigidos especialmente a personas productoras. Este trabajo se ha realizado en articulación con el Instituto Privado de Investigación sobre Cambio Climático (…
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Matters relating to the global goal on adaptation: Draft conclusions proposed by the chairs
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180616
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This document represents the conclusions of UNFCCC SBSTA and SBI chairs following negotiations at SB62. Notably, through the conclusions, parties provided additional criteria to guide the refinement of indicators for the Global Goal on Adaptation.
Publication year
2025
Authors
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…
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Climate finance in agricultural projects. Capacity building workshop
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180642
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The workshop aimed to strengthen participants' capacities in topics related to climate change, climate finance, and project structuring for mitigation and adaptation.
Publication year
2025
Authors
Corporación ECOVERSA
Full Citation
Corporación ECOVERSA (2025) Climate…
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Access, consumption and preferences for the bean-based flour Consumer survey data in Burundi
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178344
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The data were collected as part of M&E to learn about your uptake of processed bean products by consumers and draw perspectives on new bean-based products from research partners. The specific objectives were: 1) assess and consumption of nutrient dense food products promoted by the project; 2) evaluate the potential demand for processed bean-based products, 3) identify drivers of demand for…
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Status of cassava witches' broom disease and Ceratobasisium theobromae in the Philippines
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180630
Publication year
2025
Authors
Gil, Alejandra
Pardo, Juan Manuel
Leiva, Ana Maria
Cuellar, Wilmer Jose
Full Citation
Gil, A.; Pardo, J. M.; Leiva, A. M.; Cuellar, W.J. (2025) Status of cassava witches' broom disease and Ceratobasisium…
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Widespread gaps in native tree seed supply for ecosystem restoration
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180622
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Despite growing global investments in ecosystem restoration, seed supply for native tree species remains a major bottleneck, particularly in the Global South where species diversity is high and natural seed sources dwindling due to land use change.
• Country-specific availability of site adapted tree seed for restoration can be assessed through a new methodology which combines environmental clustering to define seed zones…
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Technical report: Indicator recommendation for assessing adaptation progress in food and agriculture (Target 9b) of the UAE framework for global climate resilience
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180608
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This document presents a set of 13 headline indicators and 53 sub-indicators recommended and shortlisted by the
expert group working on Target 9b under the UAE-Belém Framework for Climate Resilience, as part of the broader
UAE Framework for adaptation indicators. These indicators are intended to support the measurement of…
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Gender and inclusion strategy in the climate security work
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180609
Publication year
2025
Authors
Maviza, Gracsious
Jaskolski, Martina
Caroli, Giulia
Synnestvedt, Thea
Penel, Charlotte
Takaindisa, Joyce
Elias, Marlene
Full Citation
Maviza, G.; Jaskolski, M.; Caroli, G.; Synnestvedt, T.; Penel, C.;…
