Planning for Climate Change
The Center for Global Development has compiled a map of vulnerability to climate change, illustrating four primary dimensions: extreme weather events, sea level rise, agricultural productivity loss,...
View ArticleCommunity Action for Food Security and Resilience
By Deborah Hines, Representative of the UN World Food Programme in Ecuador and Catherine Zanev, Policy Officer, Climate Change, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction Office World Food Programme,...
View ArticleAdapting Bit by Bit
Smallholder farmers in East Africa have begun shifting practices and use of technology towards those that are more climate-resilient, according to a recent survey published in the journal Food...
View ArticleSeeds for a Changing Climate
Yesterday launched the first day of the 18th Conference of the Parties (COP18) for the UNFCCC. Already, references to agriculture have been made at the Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technical...
View ArticleBringing the Community to Carbon
It’s all about the institutions. That message came through strongly yesterday at an event on engaging communities in sustainable landscapes held by Rainforest Alliance and The Center for Peoples and...
View ArticleLandscape of the Week: Restoration for Climate Resilience in the Tigray Region
In the Tigray Region of Ethiopia, severe land degradation, population growth and immigration, and unsustainable agricultural practices and management have undermined food security and rural...
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Ecosystem-Based Approaches for Resilience
Categories: Staying CurrentTags: AdaptationAgricultural DevelopmentClimate ChangeEcosystem ServicesEventsMulti-stakeholderResilienceWhether for banana management in Uganda or a mixed crop and livestock...
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A COP19 Must: Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in Climate Finance for...
Categories: Exploring the Evidence Staying CurrentTags: AdaptationClimate ChangeCOP19FinanceMitigationUNFCCCBy Sara J. Scherr, President, EcoAgriculture Partners The UNFCCC 19th Conference of Parties...
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Climate Infographic Break: Trajectories for a Climate-Smart Paradigm
Categories: Staying CurrentTags: AdaptationClimate Changeclimate-smart agricultureMitigationWhen it comes to climate change planning, we must remember that people live in the places where climate...
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Rice, Rain, and Harvests: How Vision and Collaboration Can Put Climate...
Categories: Exploring the Evidence Voices from the FieldTags: AdaptationCCAFSClimate ChangeNepalSmallholder FarmerBy Jessica Thorn, Biodiversity Institute in the Department of Zoology, University of...
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The Landscapes Blog’s Big Issues 2013
Categories: Staying CurrentTags: Adaptationclimate-smart landscapesIntensificationMarketsMitigationResilienceSupply ChainSustainable DevelopmentHappy New Year! With 2014 upon us, it’s a good time to...
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The Pablo Standard: Encouraging Place-based Agroecology in El Salvador
Categories: Voices from the FieldTags: AdaptationagroforestryEl SalvadorLandscape ApproachesLatin AmericaBy Abigail Hart, Project Manager, EcoAgriculture Partners Just northeast of San Salvador, the...
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What Exactly Is Climate-Smart Agriculture?
Categories: Exploring the EvidenceTags: AdaptationAgricultureClimate Changeclimate-smart agricultureMitigationPublicationsClimate-smart agriculture (CSA) acknowledges the fact that climate change is a...
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Malagasy Smallholders: Coping Mechanisms & Adaptation Strategies
Categories: Exploring the EvidenceTags: AdaptationAfricaAgricultureClimate ChangeFood SecurityResearchThe 38th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) met from March 25-29, 2014...
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Oxfam Highlights Critical Lessons Learned in IPCC Report
Categories: Staying CurrentTags: AdaptationAgricultureClimate ChangeFood SecurityIPCCOxfamPublicationsThe latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change – the leading body for the...
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How Can We Meet Global Food Needs while Lowering Emissions?
Categories: Exploring the EvidenceTags: AdaptationAgricultureClimate ChangeFood SecurityLivestockMitigationResilienceBy Jes Walton, EcoAgriculture Partners When you hear “low emissions agriculture,”...
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Beyond Pipes and Pumps: Learning about Landscapes
Categories: Voices from the FieldTags: AdaptationAgricultureClimate ChangeLandscape ApproachesSri LankaBy Miuru Jayaweera, CGIAR Research Programme on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Heenbanda was...
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Life Isn’t Always Easy in the Islands: A Closer Look at World Environment Day
Categories: Staying CurrentTags: AdaptationAgricultural DevelopmentClimate ChangeResilienceWaterBy Eva Fillion, EcoAgriculture Partners You can tell that World Environment Day is taken seriously when...
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Climate Change: What’s at stake for Smallholder Farmers?
Categories: Staying CurrentTags: AdaptationClimate ChangeSmallholder FarmerUnited NationsFrom June 4-15, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings are taking place in Bonn, Germany to...
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Climate Change Adaptation and Prawn-Fish-Rice Agroecosystems
Categories: Exploring the EvidenceTags: AdaptationAgricultureClimate ChangeFood SecurityWaterBy Stuart Bunting, University of Essex and Nesar Ahmed, Bangladesh Agricultural University Prawn-fish-rice...
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