Our changing climate is changing trees’ flowering times and the length of their growing season. But the results are not as easy to predict as you might expect, say scientists.
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Groundnuts in Ghana: how change on the ground can combat change from above
10 years ago, Domogyelle Naalubaar, a groundnut farmer in Ghana’s Upper West, travelled south to look for work. The Upper West and Northern regions of Ghana had been experiencing increasingly unpredictable rain patterns in recent years, placing h…

How a group of elderly and disabled farmers turned vulnerability into strength
When subsistence depends on your ability to toil in the fields or travel long distances to market, the elderly and people with disabilities are among those most vulnerable to the threat of food insecurity. By Caity Peterson, CIAT/CCAFS. Photo: C. Peter…

CCAFS is now a member of the Global Gender and Climate Change Alliance (GGCA)
CCAFS has recently been accepted as a member of the UN launched Global Gender and Climate Change Alliance (GGCA), whose goal is to bring a human face to climate change decision-making and initiatives.

Villages can become climate-resilient. This is how!
The earth’s climate is a’changing. And there are many indicators of that. Temperatures are either going up or dropping in some areas, snow and rainfall patterns all over the world are a mess. I don’t remember when our meteorological depar…
