Tag: climate change
Adaptation of African Agriculture (AAA) Gains Momentum at COP22
Global: As global talks on including agriculture in climate negotiations stall, the Moroccan AAA initiative offers hope on a regional level.
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What Does the Paris Agreement Mean for Food & Agriculture?
Global: As COP22 in Marrakech gets under way, CCAFS Director explores the implications for the food system now the Paris Agreement has entered into force.
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A New Approach to Building Climate Resilient Supply Chains
Global: Introducing the WINnERS project, a new initiative developing weather-index based risk services based at Imperial College London.
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GACSA Forum: Making Agriculture “Climate-Smarter”
Global: Farming First launches is latest campaign in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture.
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Veneless Chimpesa: Why Agricultural Extension Matters
Global: Extension workers are as important as technologies, says Gorta-Self Help Africa agent.
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Updated Guide to Negotiations on Agriculture and Climate Change Launches
Global: Farming First, CCAFS and CTA bring the UNFCCC toolkit up to date with latest messaging and knowledge ahead Bonn Climate Change Conference.
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Youth Put Agritech Toolbox To The Test
Global: We asked four members of the YPARD network from around the world to put the brand new online model, “Agritech Toolbox”, to the test.
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What is the Role of Agricultural Technologies for Global Food Security?
Global: A wealth of technologies is now at our disposal for boosting yields of the world’s key staple crops, in order to face the large demands on our food supplies by 2050. But how can we measure which ones will be most effective, when, and where? Which combinations of technologies will have the largest impact? Until […]
Read MoreRachel Kyte: What Next for Climate-Smart Agriculture?
Global: In this guest post, Rachel Kyte, Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank, reflects on the lack of progress made in getting agriculture on the agenda at the recently concluded UN climate talks, and she looks to the newly launched Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture as a possible channel for building consensus and fostering […]
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Why Have Farmers Yet Again Been Forgotten at the UN Climate Talks?
Global: Representatives from the World Farmers Organisation (WFO) have just written two articles from their vantage point on-site at the UN climate talks in Warsaw. Despite multiple years of farmers coming together to ask UN negotiators for getting agriculture onto the climate agenda, it looks as if any progress will be postponed yet again to another […]
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“Let us Choose What Works for our Farms,” Say Farmers about the Tools and Technologies Needed to Tackle Climate Change
Global: At last week’s World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa, a panel of five farmers from four continents discussed how they are responding to the challenges which global climate change will pose to their farms. (Read the Reuters Alertnet coverage of the event here; see the full event programme and video here.) The panel was […]
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2013 World Food Prize Panel Event: Five Farmers from Four Continents: “Impacts and Opportunities of Global Climate Change”
Global: On 16th October, 2013, Farming First co-hosted a farmer roundtable event at the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa. (Read our commentary from the event and interview with the farmers here.) The event featured five farmers from around the world (Africa, Europe, South Asia and South America), who shared their thoughts on the on-farm […]
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