Countries need to enhance the ambition of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in order to prevent catastrophic effects of temperature increase over 2 degrees Celsius. More frequent and severe weather events across the globe have shown us the urgency of this matter. To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, economies will need to ...
In the past few years, we have seen growing calls for a transformation in global food systems in response to multiple challenges, including climate change. Food systems are responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions from human activity and agricultural yields are at risk due to climate change impacts. Although many proposals have be...
Timely agricultural advisories to farmers can enhance their decision-making and reduce production risk under challenging weather conditions. To enhance access to relevant climate information services in India, a mobile application called Meghdoot was designed to deliver weather information and crop-specific advisories, as a joint initiative of the ...
This report provides a synthesis of work by CCAFS and partners related to food and nutrition security (FNS). Written outputs by CCAFS and partners were evaluated based on indicators in the CCAFS Phase II proposal, documents from the CGIAR and the language of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG2 and SDG13). Complementing the review of written out...
CCAFS and partners have undertaken numerous activities and produced a considerable number of outputs of various kinds with the overarching goal to “catalyse positive change towards climate-smart agriculture, food systems and landscapes, and thereby contribute to the SLOs [System-level outcomes] on poverty alleviation, food and nutritional security....
The dissertation focuses on sustainable energy transitions, forming one part of climate change mitigation strategies. It combines economic, political, technical, and social aspects to analyse energy transitions of different fossil energy carriers, namely hard coal, lignite, and (liquefied) natural gas. It covers the transition processes of phase-ou...
The global population is growing rapidly and food production needs to be stepped up substantially to supply the additional demand expected by projected increased population. Further, climate change is expected to exert considerable pressure on global agriculture and food production. Crop wild relatives (CWR), which possess large untapped genetic di...
Through the Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture (RCSA) project, a consortium of national and international partners worked from 2016 to 2020 to strengthen the contribution of climate services to Rwanda’s farmers and agriculture sector. The project used a combination of communication channels to support farmers’ use of climate services. It adopt...
In many parts of the foothills of the Orinoquía region of Colombia, cattle production takes place on poorly drained soils. The region is dominated by extensive grazing systems of Brachiaira humidicola cv. Humidicola, a grass with high adaptation potential under temporal waterlogging conditions. Inadequate management practices and low soil fertility...
This report is published in collaboration with the Alliance for Mediterranean Nature and Culture (AMNC), the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), the Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment (CENESTA), the European Shepherds Network (ESN), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)...
