Climate change

Originally posted on CCAFS’s News Blog. By Sekou Toure, Mathieu Ouedraogo, Mainmuna Fane (CCAFS West Africa)  Researchers outline the current state of climate-smart agriculture in West Africa. Agriculture plays a key role in the economic development of West African countries. By directly providing employment and income to about 70% of the population, agriculture is the […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News By Barbara Fraser Farming and ranching remain the main drivers of deforestation in Brazil, a new study from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has found. But any new government policy to combat the problem may be undermined by lack of coordination and communication, says one of the […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Samuel McGlennon. BOGOR, Indonesia – Indonesia’s mangroves are a massive storehouse of carbon and a key bargaining chip for the country in the upcoming climate change negotiations in Paris, according to the authors of a new study published in Nature Climate Change. “Indonesian policymakers should see protecting and […]

 

Originally posted on CCAFS’s News Blog. By David Valentin Schweiger (CCAFS Coordinating Unit) SAMPLES is a framework which aims to fill the gap in current greenhouse gas emissions monitoring in tropical developing countries. Climate change is a hot topic in Paris this year. The City of Light not only hosted the Our Common Future Under […]

By Bee Wuethrich for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Having our cake and eating it, too: Can we grow more food on the world’s range lands while at the same time conserving the wealth of biodiversity those range land support? Rangelands cover one-quarter of earth’s land mass and they are storehouses of biodiversity. The […]