CGIAR (Montpellier)
Website: http://www.cgiar.org
June 14
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Africa: New Report Identifies "Regret-Free" Approaches for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change [press release]
Whether it's swapping coffee for cocoa in Central America or bracing for drought in Sri Lanka with a return to ancient water storage systems, findings from a new report from the... Read more »
June 13
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Africa: More Vitamin A Possible from Cassava, Says New Study [press release]
New research shows that the human body can absorb twice as much beta-carotene from vitamin A cassava than was previously assumed. This conventionally-bred cassava has higher... Read more »
September 7, 2012
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East Africa: Survey Finds Farmers Adapting to Climate Change
Smallholder farmers across East Africa have started to embrace climate-resilient farming approaches and technologies, according to new research recently published by the CGIAR... Read more »
January 19, 2012
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Africa: Researchers Outline Food Security-Climate Change Road Map [press release]
While last month's climate negotiations in Durban made incremental progress toward helping farmers adapt to climate change and reduce agriculture's climate footprint, a group of... Read more »
December 8, 2011
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Africa: Growing Conditions Today Mirror Future Climates - Scientists [press release]
With climate change posing a threat to food production around the world, scientists are developing a form of virtual time travel that can offer farmers in many countries a glimpse... Read more »
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