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Climate change continues to affect food production and farmers incur additional costs to adopt appropriate adaptation strategies to combat its effects and attain food security...

Changes in temperature, measured in harmful degree days (HDDs), and precipitation have a significant negative impact on agricultural productivity in Nigeria, which highlights the adverse effects of extreme...

As part of the climate-smart agriculture approach, the adoption of climate-resilient crop varieties has the potential to build farmers’ climate resilience but could also induce agricultural transformation in developing...

This series of technical briefs aims to provide a solid knowledge base for building or strengthening stakeholder capacities on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and applying CSA practices to five crops...

This book starts with an overview of major themes including the evolution of CSA, mechanisms of innovation and institutional change that will influence CSA, and the aspects of climate change that may addressed...

The Hand-in-Hand Initiative aims at facilitating partnerships and investments to accelerate the transformation of agrifood systems in the region.

This project illustrated how agroecological approaches, combined with NGO-supported access to improved seeds and irrigation technologies, can improve farmers’ incomes by diversifying and intensifying crop and forest...