Climate Change

Flows under stress: availability of plant genetic resources in times of climate and policy change

September 7th, 2012 | Featured, middle, Publications

A policy analysis of the issues around the flow of PGR within the CGIAR

The working paper presents the findings of a study of how plant genetic resources move into and out of the CGIAR, carried out for the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) program. The study reveals the invisible flows of material and identifies some of the blockages which are becoming more frequent and harder to get around.

Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change: A report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

March 29th, 2012 | Featured, middle, News, Publications

The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change has launched its report on “Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change” on 28 March at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London. In its final report, the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change proposes specific policy responses to the global challenge of feeding [...]

The World Agroforestry Centre is seeking a Social Scientist / Adaptation Specialist

March 14th, 2012 | Featured, Job opportunities, middle, News

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is an independent research institution which generates science-based knowledge about the complex role trees play in agricultural landscapes and rural livelihoods. As part of the Centre’s work to bring tree-based solutions to bear on poverty and environmental problems, researchers – working in close collaboration with partners – are developing new [...]

Kenyan weather forecasts incorporate traditional weather predictions

February 10th, 2012 | Featured, middle, News

EMUHAYA, Kenya (AlertNet) – In Essong’olo village, some 32 km west of Kenya’s Kisumu city, Japheth Olukune Akhati and his neighbours are busy tilling their small plots of land in preparation for planting. It hasn’t rained for a few months here, and the skies are still azure blue. But thanks to traditional knowledge, the farmers [...]

National Geographic features climate change, agrobiodiversity

June 17th, 2011 | Featured, General, middle, News, Publications

“A crisis is looming,” begins National Geographic reporter Charles Siebert in “Food Ark,” this month’s feature article. “It took more than 10,000 years of domestication for humans to create the vast biodiversity in our food supply that we’re now watching ebb away.” The article is an anecdote-rich crash course on the essentials of modern relationships between agrobiodiversity, [...]