Taming heat stress – climate change adaptation of pig and dairy sector in Uganda

by CIAT Comunicaciones | May 6, 2020

Pig production is an important source of livelihoods for many smallholder farmers in Uganda. Authors: John Mutua, Birthe Paul, Mireille Ferrari (ILRI) and Rosemary Nzuki, Global heat stress is a growing problem that stands to impact health, livelihoods and the very...

Making adaptation efforts actionable at scale towards a climate-smart cocoa sector

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Mar 12, 2020

Cocoa farmers are struggling with climate change effects, and the situation will not change unless adaptation measures are timely put in place. Most good agricultural practices, if correctly applied, can provide resilience against shocks and provide sustainability for...

With 30,000 surveys, researchers build the go-to dataset for smallholder farms

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 9, 2020

Farmer input is essential to tackling global challenges of climate change, rural poverty and nutrition. A new data collection tool aims to build the biggest open-access dataset of its kind for development and research Top-down projects for improving the lives of poor...

Grass height in cow nutrition: size does matter

by José Luis Urrea | Dec 21, 2019

Unlike humans, cows have the ability to convert grass into foods of high nutritional value such as meat and milk. This is because one of their stomachs, rumen, is responsible for the fermentation process that converts pasture into milk precursors. However, other...

Sharing new approaches to bring together gender, youth, nutrition and climate

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Oct 17, 2019

Participant from Malian delegation at seed producer cooperative in Lemo Bilbilo District. Photo credit: S. Samuel, CCAFS Cross-posted from IFAD social reporting blog Emerging evidence show that interventions that can fully integrate multiple disciplines have greater...