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This study investigates the impact of climate change adaptation strategies on household food security in Indonesia based on a comprehensive analysis of data from 445 shrimp farmers. Employing the innovative...

Climate-induced increase in temperature and rainfall variability severely threaten the agricultural sector and food security in the Indian state of Odisha. Climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices, such as crop...

Climate change, poverty, and low environmental education have contributed to increasing vulnerability of poor farmers in Mali. This study was done to determine the impact of low-cost adaptation...

Highlights: A participatory framework was applied to prioritize CSA innovations in four rice-growing environments in Mali. Best-bet CSA innovations varied with rice-growing environments. The adoption level...

"Management of Agricultural Resources and Adaptation to Climate Change in the EU”, video message delivered by Mr Janusz Wojciechowski at the Bucharest Leaders' Summit

The story of global agriculture is largely one of small farms, as small-scale operations account for 90% of the 570 million farms around the world and are responsible for a notable share...

IFAD is the only international financial institution that measures the impact of its investments by systematically conducting impact assessments (IAs) on a sample of at least 15 per cent of projects...

Highlights We assessed income and nutritional effects of small scale irrigation for smallholder households. Investment in small scale irrigation generates high economic returns and...

Climate change and weather shocks pose major challenges for household income security and well-being, especially for smallholder farmers’ communities. In such communities, imperfect risk insurance...