Do you feel vulnerable to climate change?  What is it that makes you vulnerable?  If you ask that question to 100 people, you will get 100 different answers.  In fact, we did (see below video), and  from 6 people that we talked to we got 6 different answers.  Yet we have countless vulnerability assessments across
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Climate change is expected to have varied impacts on the livelihoods of small-scale farmers around the world. Whether these changes will have negative or positive impacts will be highly dependent on the farmers’ ability to adapt and take advantage of the changing climatic conditions, while simultaneously overcoming the challenges. In light of the pending impacts
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Today the CCAFS program released a major report on climate change vulnerability, looking at it from a truly agricultural perspective and the results are pretty worrying.  The study, lead by our colleagues at ILRI, identifies 100′s of million of people in the tropics who are highly sensitive to climate change (i.e. have low adaptive capacity) and who
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We are pleased to inform you that in the frame of the CCAFS challenge programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security we have launched an Open Call for proposals on the ‘Development of an initial analogue methodology and proof of concept for identifying and mapping spatial and temporal analogue sites across the globe based
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