Our food systems are progressively more industrialized and consolidated with many modern food value chains involving multiple countries and continents, and as such being associated with changes in risk profile and impacts of emerging and re-emerging diseases. Disease outbreaks that sweep through a single region can have massive impacts on food supp...
Multiple cropping, defined as harvesting more than once a year, is a widespread land management strategy in tropical and subtropical agriculture. It is a way of intensifying agricultural production and diversifying the crop mix for economic and environmental benefits. Here we present the first global gridded data set of multiple cropping systems an...
The 2020 CLIFF-GRADS Science Collaboration Series was developed to facilitate technical capability building, knowledge transfer and international collaboration for the CLIFF-GRADS Alumni. Particularly for the Round 3 CLIFF-GRADS whose research stays have been delayed due to the global Covid-19 Pandemic. In addition to a series of special sessions w...
This rapid climate risk assessment for the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) uses the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2014 risk analysis framework to assess the distribution of climate hazards and social and biophysical vulnerability to those hazards in order to identify climate risk hotspots. The assessment uses regiona...
Foresight planning allows governments to construct development narratives of their desired futures and can help policymakers to better frame future policy environments. In this light, foresight can be used to influence SADC’s regional and member state strategies and policy development to ultimately enhance climate-resilient development pathways, in...
In the face of change, complexity and global interdependence, foresight, as a set of methods and approaches for future planning, provides a perspective and a set of tools that can help SADC member states build effective governance systems and policy responses to enhance climate-resilient agricultural development in the region. While it is impossibl...
The 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) introduced the idea of “climate-resilient development pathways” (CRDPs) as key responses to the threat of climate change (Roy et al. 2018). CRDPs are not merely scenarios to envision possible futures but are processes of deliberation and implementation that address so...
SADC Future project supplementary material: Systems analysis and sectoral linkages impacting climate resilient development in the SADC region.
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) hosted a virtual workshop on Advancing Climate Action in Agriculture and Food Systems facilitated by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). This workshop had as objective to raise awareness on what can be done to advance climate action in agriculture and food s...
