Building a Better Future: How Gender Research Supports Rural Women During Times of Crisis
Gender research supports more equitable outcomes during and post-crisis, while helping to build more resilient systems. While scientists and climate activists have sounded the alarm for decades, calling attention to the impending impacts of climate change, it has proven to be
Multiple Cropping Could Help Feed the World
For the first time, the global area of different multiple cropping systems is quantified. This could be a game-changer for farmers and not only farmers. The key: Crop production can be increased without increasing the surface of cultivated land. Feeding
What’s At Stake: Gender, Agriculture and Crisis
As women face unprecedented upheavals, the development community has an opportunity to not only meet immediate needs, but to support a more innovative, equitable future. While agriculture is the primary source of income and food security for billions of people globally,
The Future of Agriculture? Integrating Agroecology and Climate-Smart Agriculture
Re-assessing agroecology's role in sustainable agriculture. Integrating agroecology and climate-smart agriculture in CCAFS activities. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is committed to tackling humankind's greatest challenges in the 21st century: food security, adaptation to
Crop Loss Assessment Monitor: A Multi-Model and Multistage Decision Support System
Study shows how the Crop Loss Assessment Monitor - a decision support system - could help improve loss assessment and make crop insurance more efficient. Farming has often been quoted as one of the noblest professions, shouldering the responsibility of feeding
North-South Collaboration Through Rapid Prototyping: Doing it the Minimum-Viable Way
Researchers walk the talk of North-South collaboration using international rapid prototyping. Everyone seems to be talking about fostering collaboration between actors in the Global North and the Global South. However, "putting your money where your mouth is" does not always come
Triple-win: The economic, environmental, and social benefits of planting cassava
Running for almost two decades already, a local project in Vietnam has been exhibiting the economic, environmental, and social benefits of cassava-based conservation models. By the early 2000s, the Van Yen District in Yen Bai Province, Vietnam, had experienced yield loss
How can young African agripreneurs survive COVID-19 and the climate crisis?
Climate breakdown and COVID-19 are pushing food systems to the brink. Find out how young African agripreneurs are adapting. The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting agricultural value chains in Africa by threatening food, nutrition and security, as well as the livelihoods of
Equality in a post-pandemic era: gender, COVID-19, agriculture and climate change
Combined with climate change, pandemics threaten to slow down or reverse progress in gender equality, further threatening food, income, and nutrition security. COVID-19 is intensifying climate change impacts, adding extra pressure to food systems, livelihoods, and health. Women are especially affected by this added
Strengthening climate services for agriculture in Latin America
Climate services are helping Latin America agricultural sector to close the gap between climate information, knowledge and its use by farmers. Climate information has become a precious commodity for thousands of farmers in Latin America, who use it to make decisions
Flipping the script on rainfall data
In the cover image: Installation of cheap, recyclable IoT rain gauges prototypes conceived by Manobi Africa and Viveris to reduce basis risk, insurance premiums and interest rates on smallholder credit. Photo: P.C.S. Traore (ICRISAT/Manobi Africa) Simple rain gauges are positioned to
Integrating climate resilience into Farmer Field Schools
The inclusion of climate resilience into Farmer Field School methodologies is a novel and highly promising approach in East Africa. Here is why. Farmer Field Schools (FFS) were introduced in East Africa in the late nineties as an alternative to top-down extension