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The Climate-Smart Governance Dashboard provides accurate data on climate-related hazards, population vulnerability, forecast climate scenarios, sector-relevant data (water, health, agriculture, ecosystem), infrastructure...

Scaling CSA climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies and innovations is essential to address climate change impacts in agriculture and food systems in West Africa. Through engagement with existing...

As countries prioritize climate action under the Paris Agreement, determining the overlap in agricultural areas requiring both adaptation and mitigation (A&M) interventions could lead to more...

Identifying and assessing adaptation options are key pre-requisite steps to adaptation prioritization and effective adaptation planning. In this paper, we presented a systematic approach for adaptation stocktaking...

Agriculture in West Africa faces the challenge of meeting the rising demand for food as national incomes and populations increase while production becomes more uncertain due to climate...

The Sahel region of West Africa has experienced some of the most severe multidecadal rainfall variability over the past 50 years. Based on recollections of the past and observations...

Crop yields, livestock productivity, and food nutritional content ar e all negatively impacted by climate change. Breeding resilient crops and livestock is crucial to address...

Climate change impacts on agrifood systems are pervasive. Increasing weather and climate extreme events have exposed millions to acute food and water insecurity, eroding...

Food systems transformation lies at the heart of climate action. Current food, climate and environment challenges are deeply interconnected, meaning solutions must address all...

In this document we present a general characterization of the food systems in the department of Caquetá, Colombia, based on a review of the literature, with a particular emphasis on livestock and cocoa. It is worth mentioning...