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Coupling biophysical modeling results and local farmer preferences to optimize land use in Ethiopia
The production-conservation paradox – one of the 21st century’s grand challenges
A stakeholder validation meeting with participants from woredas (districts) around the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, international research organizations, and universities.
As Ethiopia approaches 105 million people,…
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Planta piloto de biogás para la gestión de residuos orgánicos
Para disminuir los problemas ambientales en las inmediaciones de los rellenos sanitarios en Colombia debido a la emisión de gases de efecto invernadero, la contaminación de suelos y aguas superficiales y/o subterráneas a través de los lixiviados, GICON y la Alianza de Bioversity International y el CIAT, firmaron convenio para generar cambios en el aprovechamiento de…
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Milking opportunity in the foothills of Mount Kenya
When Simon and Sylvia Kiruja started their farm three years ago, they never imagined it would get so big they would need a bigger plot. Their 3 cows used to bring them 7 litres of milk a day. Today, their 45 cows deliver more than 250 litres daily, contributing around US$1,700 monthly depending on the season, to the Kirujas’ income.
Children at Simon and Sylvia’s dairy farm in…
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Video: How Iron Beans Gained Ground in Rwanda
“We eat these beans at home. I saw change in my child, who became healthier and weighed very well,” says Jaqueline Mushimiyimana, a farmer in Nyanza District in southern Rwanda. She stands proudly in front her bean field, hoe in hand.
Originally posted by HarvestPlus at https://www.harvestplus.org/knowledge-market/in-the-news/video-how-iron-beans-gained-ground-rwanda…
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Proyecto de investigación regional busca impulsar desarrollo del cacao para seguir compitiendo en el mercado europeo
Los beneficiarios finales son los pequeños productores de cacao y sus familias, con un enfoque en reducir su vulnerabilidad al impacto de la nueva regulación de seguridad alimentaria y el cambio climático. (Foto: ©2017 CIAT/NeilPalmer)
La región de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) es el…
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Making adaptation efforts actionable at scale towards a climate-smart cocoa sector
Cocoa farmers are struggling with climate change effects, and the situation will not change unless adaptation measures are timely put in place. Most good agricultural practices, if correctly applied, can provide resilience against shocks and provide sustainability for long-term changes, but developing tailored solutions for all cocoa households…
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Regional research project seeks to promote the development of cacao to continue competing in the European market
The final beneficiaries are small cacao producers and their families, with a focus on reducing their vulnerability to the impact of the new food safety regulation and climate change. (Photo: ©2017 CIAT/NeilPalmer)
The Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC) is the main producer of fine flavor…
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De vuelta a la escuela: diversidad para la restauración
Los bosques secos tropicales albergan diversas especies como Calliandra tumbeziana, localmente llamada “Seda seda”, una especie amenazada endémica del norte de Perú. Crédito: Alianza Bioversity International y CIAT / T.Fremout
Autores: Claire Lubke; Marleni Ramirez; Frederico Roscioli; Evert Thomas; Tobias Fremout; Rachel Atkinson; Jéssica Cerrón…
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Exploit local-level opportunities for sustainable land management: Lessons from a multistakeholder platform in Tanzania
With climate change, the issues of land are becoming more important. Land conditions are vulnerable to ongoing climate change, including increased rainfall intensity, flooding, drought frequency and severity, heat stress, dry spells, wind and sea-level rise.
By Caroline Mwongera…
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With 30,000 surveys, researchers build the go-to dataset for smallholder farms
Farmer input is essential to tackling global challenges of climate change, rural poverty and nutrition. A new data collection tool aims to build the biggest open-access dataset of its kind for development and research
Top-down projects for improving the lives of poor farmers were often unsuccessful because they didn’t…
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Investigadores construyen la base de datos de referencia para fincas de pequeños productores con 30.000 encuestas.
La información que aportan los agricultores es esencial para afrontar los retos mundiales relacionados con el cambio climático, la pobreza rural y la nutrición. Una nueva herramienta de recopilación de datos busca construir el conjunto de datos de libre acceso más grande de su género para contribuir al desarrollo…
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Transformed livelihoods empowering rural women in Rwanda
In April 2018, heavy rains pounded the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda with torrents of water washing down to Burera Village causing flooding and destroying property as they went along.
Xaverine on her wheat farm.
Ms. Xaverine Nyiransabimana, a widow, is one of the villagers whose house was destroyed by the rains. However, thanks to Participatory…
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Gender and Climate Change: evidence and experience
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93457
Publication year
2015
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Bioversity International
CARE International
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Center for International Forestry Research
Global Greengrants Fund
International Union for Conservation of…
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Helping Lake Tana fight the Water Hyacinth menace
Wuletawu Abera, Lulseged Tamene Desta
Lake Tana is the most important freshwater lake in Ethiopia, holding up to 50% of the country’s water and serving as the main source of the Blue Nile, which provides valuable ecosystem services. The lake was recognized by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a hotspot of…
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Ethiopia holds workshop to enhance Open Access data among scientists
Researchers in Ethiopia have for years generated data and knowledge to tackle agricultural challenges. However, little value has been obtained from these invaluable assets that remain scattered across the region in different repositories and publications.
Some of the writeshop participants.
Authors: Lulseged Tamene and Rosemary Nzuki.…
