Farmers in Tanzania got involved in a soil survey to learn more about the fertility status of their fields. Land degradation is seen as one of the causes of low agricultural yields as well as loss of biodiversity. Increasingly, researchers are also lin…
Many research efforts focusing on climate change do not take gender considerations into account. But gender matters, says guest blogger Nadia Manning-Thomas in this blog piece published at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and F…
CCAFS East Africa recently held an analogues workshop in Ethiopia, teaching participants all about climate prediction and weather forecasting. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT). Blog post written by Catherine Mungai, Andualem Shimeles and Ousmane Ndiaye.
On 13 November, Mario Herrero, at International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), gave a presentation on “Mitigation potentials in the livestock sector”. The presentation was live streamed from Nairobi, Kenya. View the streamed presentat…
There is a need to better coordinate climate information science in Africa. This, and other measures for climate risk management, discussed during a recent conference in Ethiopia. Photo: J. Hansen (CCAFS) Written by CCAFS East Africa Team
