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People in the industrialized world reap the benefits of a well-connected and seamlessly functioning network of weather stations. Instant accessibility to real-time weather information guides society’s day-to-day decision making – from what clothes to wear, how to get to and from destinations, to what crops to plant. It’s difficult to imagine a world where a weekend weather […]

I am pleased to see the two leading international consortia on forests and agriculture and rural development coming together at the Global Landscapes Forum to tackle pressing development and climate change issues from a wider perspective. It is well known that the fate of forests and food is bound. Because deforestation, climate change and food […]

The risk of drought is high as climate changes. But agriculture can become resilient, say senior researchers from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in a special Nature Outlook. Agriculture will be faced with alarming challenges under a changing climate, with many parts of the world facing more severe […]

Our Data and Tools for Planning team has recently coordinated and released a site atlas for the research sites in East Africa, West Africa and South Asia. The recently released atlases add to the growing suite of documents that provide background information on the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) […]

Kenya held a successful National Adaptation Planning meeting for the Agriculture Sector in mid-September 2013. The meeting brought together stakeholders in agriculture to  consider how Kenya should proactively deal with food production challenges and opportunities presented by climate change. Read the full post here. Original post by Vivian Atakos, Vanessa Meadu, Maren Radeny and James […]

Farming provides services outside of crop production, it can aid in carbon capture among other ecological side benefits. These ecosystem services could be a boon to farmers if there were a feasible means to provide compensation for them. This blog provides an analysis of how a landscape level approach can be used to enhance any […]