Climate change adaptation and mitigation requires climate-smart agriculture. Efforts are growing guided by a target of 11 million farms using climate-smart techniques, to be achieved by 2022. Here is how.
We proudly present some of our recent achievements that show how CCAFS and partners help farmers cope with climate change.
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In the Exposure story below, read about our top 12 recent outcomes that show how we’re getting closer to to the target of 11 million farm households adopting climate-smart agriculture by 2022.
We are moving closer to achieving climate change adaptation around the world, as shown by the following results:
- Kenya: State Department of Livestock catalyzes investments of USD 223 million in the dairy sector
- Rwanda: Face-to-face training on climate services reaches 106,000 farmers
- Ghana: Informing the adoption of a public-private partnership business model for climate information services
- Ghana: CCAFS science supports COCOBOD Ghana steps towards climate-resilient cocoa production for 800,000 farmers
- CCAFS knowledge and evidence inform World Bank investments in agricultural development
- Root Capital uses CCAFS data to evaluate 251 loans including 199 for coffee worth 146 million USD
- Latin America: Agro-climatic services help 500,000 farmers better plan their crops
- Colombia: NDC mitigation options are refined and a sustainable livestock strategy is developed
- Colombia: CCAFS science informs the national Green Growth Policy
- Nepal: Two states implement Climate-Smart Villages, aiming to reach 6,000,000 farmers
- Thailand: EUR 15 million invested for mitigation action in the rice sector
- Vietnam: 600,000 hectares of rice are planted earlier to avoid the risk of salinity intrusion from the 2019 El Niño
About the author: Lili Szilagyi is the Communications Consultant for the CCAFS Flagship on Priorities and Policies for CSA and the CCAFS Flagship on Low Emissions Development.
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