By Chase Sova (re-posted from the CCAFS blog) Persistence and diversification. Oddly enough, these two themes prove common between successful climate change adaptation, as well as getting to meet the Prime Minister of Nepal, Mr. Baburam Bhattarai. At least, this is the light-hearted lesson that The Adaptation to progressive climate change- and Oxford University Research Team
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Fifty-five year old Rosalia Shemdoe feels empowered. She lives and works in Yamba village in the Lushoto district of northern Tanzania, but she just got back from what could be the longest journey she’s ever taken – one that ended in Mbinga, a district over 1,000 km away.

By Chase Sova ( CCAFS theme 1 and visiting researcher at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)) Putting agriculture in the climate change agenda has raised a number of important issues such as threats of trade barriers, diversion of REDD+ funds to agriculture, how to deal with its cross-cutting and complex nature, and the
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 by Jeremy Cherfas, Bioversity International (re posted from CCAFS blog) A new climate change tool will not only help farmers to prepare for the future, it may also spur implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Although 127 countries rushed to ratify the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources
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Blog post written by Ewen Leborgne (ILRI) They came and met; they discussed, argued, they laughed and they planned, they went around and went away. But they did it all together, and after three days of intensive work, African breeders and modelers came out one step closer to uniting around the challenge of climate-smart crops.
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Within CCAFS Adaption to Progressive Climate Change theme, one of the objectives is to generate comprehensive strategies for crop improvement through a combination of modeling, expert consultation and stakeholder dialogue, and translating these insights into coordinated global, regional and national research and technology investment policies. As part of its 2011 activities and in collaboration with
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(REPOSTED FROM CCAFS Blog, Submitted by Vanessa)   The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change has outlined outlines crucial policy responses to the global challenge of feeding a world confronted by climate change. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT). Scientific experts outline concrete steps toward a sustainable global food system COPENHAGEN (16 November 2011) — In
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Last Friday, scientists from DAPA visited the municipality of Candelaria and had a very pleasant meeting with the local community. A diverse audience was waiting for us at the community center. Local farmers, teachers, youth people, representatives from environmental associations and from the local government were there; all curious and eager to learn about Climate
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A short piece introducing the recently completed Two Degrees Up series of climate change photofilms is now online. Narrated by CIAT’s Andy Jarvis, the video outlines theTwo Degrees Up concept and gives an overview of three case studies that look at the impact of climate change on smallholder farmers in Colombia, Ghana and Kenya. The
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Part 3 of the series… See the other videos in the series: Part 2: Ghana Part 1: Colombia