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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms that in the next few decades climate change will result in crop losses. However, is disaster really inevitable? A lot is determined by how farmers, investors and policy makers handle the situation.  By Sonja Vermeulen, Head of Research CCAFS; originally published on CCAFS blog   This week the […]

If conventional farming practices remain unchanged it could result in agricultural yield decreases of 10-15% globally in the face of climate change. Experts agree that the world is already committed to a 2°C mean temperature increase, but what happens if the climate changes more dramatically than our modest estimates suggest?  The need for planned agricultural […]

By Robert Zougmoré, Regional Program Leader CCAFS West Africa Members of the Ghanaian Parliament have committed to support the mainstreaming of climate change into agricultural investment initiatives in Ghana, including research on climate-smart agriculture to benefit the most vulnerable populations. On 29 January 2014, government ministers, members of parliament and other high-level policy makers in […]

As climate variability increases, regions are becoming more vulnerable to its negative impacts. The agricultural sector will be hit hardest by climate change, not only suffering from direct influences but also from multiplier effects. In order to adapt, farmers need to know how weather will change in their area – requiring data that goes beyond […]

Farmers require financing to meet the growing demand for food. A new working paper identifies opportunities for investing in sustainable agriculture in ways that benefit smallholders. Smallholder agriculture and forestry is constrained by the high risk embedded in current approaches to providing capital for longer-term investments in sustainable practices.  Authors of the working paper Financing sustainable […]