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At the recent Third International Conference on Climate Services, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security showed donors, researchers and practitioners how climate services can work for smallholder farmers. The needs of agriculture were front and center at this third annual gathering of a global community of climate information producers and […]

By Janet Ranganathan The world is projected to hold a whopping 9.6 billion people by 2050. Figuring out how to feed all these people — while also advancing rural development, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting valuable ecosystems — is one of the greatest challenges of our era. So what’s causing the global food challenge, and how can the […]

More than 70 presentations were shared during the Global Landscapes Forum and as multimedia event resources in the days after the conference. Here are the slideshows most popular with the online community – five stories about landscapes approaches turned into action. 1. Importance, Key Questions on Resilience and Managing Disasters in the Hindu Kush Himalayas […]

In Zambia, the weather is changing — the rainy season begins later in the year than it once did, and its duration is now unpredictable, creating confusion about the best time for planting, a U.S.-based farmer told delegates during a presentation delivered on the sidelines of the recent U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. By […]

Certifications have become common in certain globally-trading agricultural sectors, such as the coffee industry. But scaling up certification to encompass the whole landscape – including ecosystem services – is much trickier. At the same time, researchers are experimenting with extending certification schemes to other sectors, for example livestock agriculture. Capturing the entire supply-chain can be […]

Despite the large quantity of climate-change research focused on adaptation, mitigation and gender, not much of it is leading to transformative action on the ground, said a top forestry expert at the recent U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. By Julie Mollins, published on CIFOR Forest News Improving technology, generating political will, crafting gender sensitive […]