This info note describes the methodology and findings of the risk and Climate Smart Agriculture impact assessment conducted for eight agrifood businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa as part of the CLIC Agrifood Investment Connector.
In strict adherence to the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) as well as the applicable legal and regulatory frameworks of Ghana for the pilot of CSA innovations, it is important to monitor the environmental impact of CSA innovation and ensure they pose no harm to the health of humans, animals, plants and their shared environment.
Climate change remains a major threat to Ghana’s agricultural productivity and food security especially in developing countries. One of the promising pathways to achieving sustainable food production is building communities resilience to climate risk through technology parks which can serve as platforms to promote climate-smart agricultural technologies.
This paper presents a temperature-based early warning alert system for fish farmers in Zambia. The decision support tool indicating the conditions under which air temperatures may result in a normal, high risk or emergency scenario, combined with the monitoring and management mitigations recommended under each scenario.
The Shamba Showdown project emerges in response to a critical, yet under-addressed issue in Kenya's agriculture sector: the aging farmer population and the disinterest of the youth in farming. Despite the fact that 85% of Kenya's food supply is domestically grown, primarily by smallholder farmers, there is a looming food crisis driven by the aging demographic of these farmers.
Employing Citizens’ Juries (CJs) for Identifying Pathways to More Sustainable Food Systems is one of the proposed research endeavors of work package 3 (WP3) within the One-CGIAR initiative “Mitigate+: Low-Emission Food Systems†(2022-2024).
Open-pollinated varieties (OPVs), such as beans, sorghum, and groundnuts, are important for increased income, job creation, food security, and nutrition of both urban and rural households in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Tanzania is endowed with a diversity of ecosystems, huge number of cattle farming and available arable land. However, the productivity per cow is still very low due various reasons.
Tanzania smallholder dairy is constrained by lack of access to high yielding and locally adapted genetics. To improved dairy genetics Artificial insemination (AI) is the best tool to use. However, uptake of AI services is variable across the country.