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Morocco: ClimBeR Inception Workshop Report
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/129051
Abstract
The CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience, ClimBeR, aims to transform the climate adaptation capacity of food, land, and water systems in Morocco and five other countries, ultimately increasing the resilience of smallholder production systems to withstand severe climate change effects like drought, flooding, and high temperatures.
Morocco recently faced one of the nation’s worst droughts in decades, posing significant risks to farmers. Rainfall…
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Nitrogen-fixing cover crops and shrubs and a fast-growing grass restore degraded soils and coffee yields.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179751
Publication year
2025
Authors
Ntamwira, Jules
Ocimati, Walter
Shabani, Gabriel
Kitumaini Safari, Nancy
Blomme, Guy
Full Citation
Ntamwira, J.; Ocimati, W.; Shabani, G.; Kitumaini Safari, N.; Blomme, G. (2025)…
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Women in action: leadership and collective agency in commons governance
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137066
Abstract
The session aims to bring out voices from the community-lived experiences and leadership journeys of women leaders through a qualitative study. Focusing on the dynamics between individual leadership and collective agency, this study explores the enabling and hindering factors to women’s leadership, motivations for rural Indian women to take up leadership roles and the role of leadership in enhancing the collective…
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Forage seed systems and feed reserves: Business propositions, case for Ethiopia
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/111511
Publication year
2021
Authors
Dey, Bhramar
Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
Makkar, Harinder
Mwendia, Solomon W.
Peters, Michael
Sahlu, Yonas
Full Citation
Dey, B; Notenbaert, A; Makkar, H; Mwendia, S; Peters, M; Sahlu, Y. (2021)…
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Ex ante impact and trade-off assessment of improved forage use in western Kenya
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114630
Abstract
The dominant cut-and-carry forage grass in East Africa, Napier (Pennisetum purpureum), is suffering from increasing problems of stunt and head-smut diseases leading to important decreases in yield. Alternative improved forages have been developed and promoted by research and development organizations globally over the past couple of decades to diversify feed baskets and increase the quantity and quality of…
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Is climate a risk multiplier in the Central American Dry Corridor? A CGIAR study
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116294
Abstract
In this study, we investigate the climate-food security-conflict nexus in the Central American dry corridor as part of the WFP - CGIAR project "Assessing the relationship between climate, food security and conflict in Ethiopia and in the Central American Dry Corridor (CADC). Quantitative analysis on the impact of climate variability on conflict in Ethiopia and in the CADC countries".
Our main…
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Mapeo Participativo de Clima y Cultivos en Guatemala
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/111386
Abstract
El mapa de clima y cultivos es el resultado de ejercicios participativos llevados a cabo en las Mesas Técnicas Agroclimáticas (MTA) de Guatemala, que busca identificar la cobertura de información climática proveniente de estaciones meteorológicas y los sistemas productivos según el área de alcance geográfico
de cada MTA.
Publication year
2020
Authors
Navarro-…
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Fostering gender-transformative change for equality in food systems: A review of methods and strategies at multiple levels
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134458
Publication year
2023
Authors
McDougall, C.
Elias, Marlène
Zwanck, D.
Diop, K.
Simao, J.
Galiè, Alessandra
Fischer, Gundula
Jumba, Humphrey
Najjar, Dina…
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The Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas- Training workbook
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180476
Abstract
The Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas (https://adaptationatlas.cgiar.org/) Training Workbook is a practical, interactive manual designed to help users analyze climate risks, impacts, and adaptation options across African agriculture. It guides users through four analytical notebooks, climate hazard exposure, heat stress on producers, projected climate impacts on cereals, and climate rationale building, using step-by-step…
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Agriculture transition and women's decision-making power in coffee-farming households in Lao PDR
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114160
Abstract
The Lao government introduced a new period of economic liberalisation with the New Economic Mechanism (NEM) in 1986. The present study examineswhether market liberalisation and women’s participation translated into changes in women’s decision-making power in the coffee growing region of the Bolaven Plateau in southern Lao PDR. While women have always been involved in coffee farming, their…
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Including access and benefit sharing in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: a submission from the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Bioversity-CIAT Alliance (Bioversity-CIAT Alliance)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106248
Abstract
The Alliance of Bioversity International (Bioversity) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is making this submission to the 23rd meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Subsidiary Body on…
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Theory of change for the small ruminant value chain in Mali, developed for the CGIAR Initiative Sustainable Animal Productivity for Livelihoods, Nutrition and Gender Inclusion
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135408
Publication year
2023
Authors
Dione, Michel M.
Johnson, N.
Fall, Abdou
Marshall, Karen
Hoek, Rein van der
Rekik, Mourad
Sow, Ahmadou
Zannou, Olivier
Amole,…
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Reducing enteric methane emissions via low-methane forages
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152361
Publication year
2024
Authors
Arango, Jacobo
Costa, Ciniro
Flintan, Fiona E.
Marshall, Suzie
Mukherji, Aditi
Full Citation
Arango, J., Costa Jr., C., Flintan, F., Marshall, S. and Mukherji, A. 2024. Reducing enteric methane emissions via low-methane forages.…
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Gender dynamics around introduction of improved forages in Kenya and Ethiopia
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116391
Abstract
Improved forages of genus Brachiaria and Panicum grasses were introduced to men and women farmers in western Kenya and southern Ethiopia. To provide an understanding of the social and demographic characteristics of farming systems, a household survey was implemented in 2018/2019. In 2020, a complementary qualitative study was conducted to understand: (a) gender dynamics in accessing forage planting materials: (b…
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Heat stress: Policy recommendations and engagements for Uganda pig value chains
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115628
Publication year
2021
Authors
Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
Zaake, Paul
Paul, Birthe K.
Mutua, John Y.
Full Citation
Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Zaake, Paul, Paul, Birthe K., and Mutua, John. 2021. Heat stress: Policy recommendations and engagements for Uganda…
