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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS

CCAFS

CCAFS brings together some of the world's best researchers in agricultural science, climate science, environmental and social sciences to identify and address the most important interactions, synergies and trade-offs between climate change and agriculture.

Multiple cropping can increase production, crop diversity and income, as well as improve the functioning of agricultural systems. Photo Credit: M. Edliadi (CIFOR)

Multiple Cropping Could Help Feed the World

Global area of different multiple cropping systems is quantified for the first time.

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS

Nov 11, 2020

Agricultural Productivity Food Safety

Better Foresight for Climate Resilience: New E-Learning Course and Toolkit Launched

Check out these new training materials designed for those interested in diving into foresight for climate resilience.

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS

Oct 29, 2020

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Resilience

Everth and Selena Castro have common bees and some species of stingless wild bees on their ecofriendly farm in Nicaragua. Photo Credit: G. Vuillermoz (Trocaire)

Agriculture's Future: Integrating Agroecology with Climate-Smart Changes

This post explores the importance of re-assessing agroecology’s role in sustainable agriculture and integrating agroecology and climate-smart agriculture in CCAFS activities.

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS

Oct 26, 2020

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Food Safety

How Climate-Smart Village Farmers Are Adapting to COVID-19 Induced Lockdown in India

Enhanced capacities of farmers in climate-smart villages have enabled them to take constructive measures to better respond to COVID-19 induced lockdown.

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS

Sep 30, 2020

Resilience

crop phenotyping platform, ICRISAT’s HQ Patancheru, India

Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Crop Improvement for Faster Climate Change Adaptation

Sakshi Saini is the Communications Specialist for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) South Asia. Below, she explores a strategic research framework for crop...

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS

Sep 28, 2020

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Resilience

Farmers exchange seed at the seed fair in Nawalparasi, Nepal in May 2019. Photo Credit: R. Vernooy (Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT)

Nepali Community Seed Banks Conserve Agrobiodiversity

On the International Day for Biological Diversity, we celebrate community seedbanks that maintain and harness Nepal’s rich agricultural biodiversity for human health and well-being.

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS

Aug 19, 2020

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Food Safety Nutrition

We need to treat climate change just as serious as the COVID-19 pandemic and help combat the effects of climate change on food and livelihood systems.

What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Responding to Climate Change

COVID-19 shows behavioural responses to global challenges can be both massive and rapid, note Philip Thornton and Mario Herrero in the latest The Lancet Planetary Health.

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS

Aug 05, 2020

Climate and Natural Resources Markets and Trade Resilience

Assessing Gender and Nutrition Integration in Ugandan Policy

This post is written by Lili Szilagyi, Communications Consultant for the CCAFS Priorities and Policies for CSA Flagship, and Patricia Bamanyaki, Project Leader for the Policy action for nutrition-sensitive climate-smart...