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How corn links Jamaica’s food supply to climate change in the US Midwest
This case study explores how Jamaica’s deep dependency on US maize affects both its economy and food security in a changing climate.
Climate risks to trade and food security: implications for policy
This policy brief presents insights from a groundbreaking assessment of climate risks to international trade in six major commodities.
Climate change, trade, and global food security
This report provides a first systematic, quantitative assessment of transboundary climate risks to trade in major agricultural commodities – maize, rice, wheat, soy, sugar cane, and coffee.
The gendered challenges of food security: Stories and lessons from ASSAR
This article provides key findings from ASSAR study sites in the semi-arid regions of Africa and India, where gender was found to have a large role in how food security is affected.
Enhancing economic benefits and resilience through pyrolysis based coffee drying
Pyrolysis technolgy offers significant economic beneftis to farmers and processors by providing energy that can be used for drying, and biochar, a natural fertilizer and soil enhancer.
Assessing Climate Service Needs In Kaffrine, Senegal: Livelihoods, Identity, And Vulnerability To Climate Variability and Change
Climate services have the potential to reduce precipitation and temperature-related risks to agricultural production, boost agricultural yields, and build resilience in rural populations.
A guide to using CIP in analysing historical and future rainfall patterns
This is a theoretical case study representing a guide in how to use CIP in analysing historical and future rainfall patterns in the Swartland region in South Africa.
Prioritizing Investments in Climate-Smart Agriculture in Guatemala
This poster is one of the posters featured at the 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9) which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, from April 24-30 2015.
Climate Change in the Lower Mekong Basin: An Analysis of Economic Values at Risk
This VAR Report assesses the current-day values of key assets at risk to climate change in the Lower Mekong Basin countries.
Using climate information to support adaptation planning and policy-making: Cape Town
A vegetable farmer in Philippi, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. Source: FLICKR/KOSMOSELEEVIKE This case study focuses on the...