UN Climate Summit 2014
CGIAR Development Dialogues 2014
What will a new climate mean for farming?
By Cecilia Schubert, CCAFS
The climate challenges we are facing as a globe are enormous. Changing cropping patterns, new pests and diseases, land becoming unsuitable for farming and recurrent droughts and flooding are just a short list of the many dire consequences from a changing, uncompromising, climate. Research represents here an important tool, as it delivers the much needed models, future climate predictions and knowledge on best approaches towards battling climatic change.
The research magazine Nature Climate Change recently released a special edition highlighting 16 thought-provoking and original articles on current knowledge on how how climate change will impact agriculture, how agriculture is affecting the climate and if we have the capacity to adapt to the challenges. The special edition is unique in its own sense, as it is a major dive into what climate knowledge we have so far, and what is currently missing.
New study suggests ways to get the agriculture sector climate ready
By Lini Wollenberg, CCAFS
Donor support for “climate readiness” in the forestry sector is helping countries prepare "Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programs. A new report, “Climate readiness in smallholder agricultural systems: Lessons learned from REDD+” by Monika Zurek, Charlotte Streck, Stephanie Roe and Franziska Haupt, examines the lessons learned from REDD+ readiness processes to inform the agriculture sector.
