New project aims to ensure that key actors in the livestock sector increase climate change adaptation and mitigation in farming practices, sector strategies and investment projects. Continue reading
Category Archives: CCAFS
Livestock and climate change: 16 West and Central African countries to move forward
Experts from 16 African countries come together to discuss issues around the livestock sector and identify opportunities for national capacity building Continue reading
National livestock sector policies and planning under a changing global economy
New study analyzes the impact of demand and supply of livestock-derived food on managing the livestock sector Continue reading
How will climate change impact rangelands in the next few decades?
Philip Thornton contributed a chapter to Grasslands and Climate Change, the latest volume of the Ecological Reviews series. In this post Philip tells us more about the chapter, which explains the impacts of climate change on open grasslands used for livestock grazing. Continue reading
Tracking Ethiopia’s livestock emissions to identify low-carbon development pathways
Key partners come together to develop robust systems for measurement, reporting and verification of emissions from Ethiopia’s livestock sector. Continue reading
Selective breeding manuals reveal best practices for small ruminant productivity
Community platforms in rural Kenya serve as the backbone for catalyzing innovative livestock interventions Continue reading
Thinking ‘beyond the farm’—On Germany’s longstanding commitment to agricultural research for development
Watch and listen to Stefan Schmitz, head of Food, Agriculture & Rural Development at Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), as he delivers a short (6-minute) filmed presentation at one of several linked collaborative events led by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and held on the sidelines of the 23rd Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP23) to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 7 Nov 2017 in Bonn, Germany. Continue reading
Agriculture can rein in greenhouse gas emissions ‘immediately’, say UN and CGIAR
‘”In the next few years . . . agriculture . . . could produce early results immediately, cost-effectively and all over the world”, René Castro of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) told the COP23 climate talks in Bonn.’ Continue reading
Delivering smart climate change adaptation and mitigation options for East African agriculture
On 30 May 2017, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) held a science seminar at ILRI’s campus in Nairobi on delivering climate change options for the region. Participants shared knowledge and discussed best practices—and persistent gaps—in climate change adaptation and mitigation options for East Africa’s millions of small-scale food producers. Continue reading
Fighting climate change in a post-modernist world of pop art politics—Opinion by Phil Thornton
Phil Thornton leads CGIAR research on institutions and policies for climate-resilient food systems. He makes the case for better and closer scientist-citizen engagement in an opinion piece published this week in the wake of this year’s national political election results in Australia, the UK and the USA. Continue reading