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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 […]

The Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012 called for the design of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of the global development framework after 2015 — the year when the Millennium Development Goals (SDGs) will expire. An Open Working Group of the UN General Assembly is currently convening around several key issues, among them land use, […]

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 […]

One-third of global emissions come from landscapes. Cutting down trees for alternative land uses, managing the soils and crops of farms, and keeping livestock all contribute to carbon emissions. However, there is huge potential for reducing these emissions, for example through setting aside certain areas for planting trees while selecting plots for farm activities. At […]

Tea farming in Kenya could be devastated by the impact of climate change unless new climate-smart agriculture is adopted. The use of an assessment tool developed by EcoAgriculture Partners and the Rainforest Alliance, which is working to transition to a landscape management approach in this region, can help identify the strengths of current activities and […]