Themes: Agriculture and food security

Themes: Agriculture and food security

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23rd April 2014
Image of green Ugandan fields To accompany the report What’s in it for Africa, CDKN is offering high-quality images for use by developing country journalists when writing on the contents of the report. This image shows green Ugandan fields.
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23rd April 2014
Farmer in fields, Kenya To accompany the report What’s in it for Africa, CDKN is offering high-quality images for use by developing country journalists when writing on the contents of the report. This image shows a Kenyan farmer.
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22nd April 2014
Sunflower farmers, Africa To accompany the report What’s in it for Africa, CDKN is offering high-quality images for use by developing country journalists when writing on the contents of the report. This image shows a farmer tending her sunflowers in East Africa.
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22nd April 2014
Silhouettes of farmers in Africa To accompany the report What’s in it for Africa, CDKN is offering high-quality images for use by developing country journalists when writing on the contents of the report. This image shows the silhouettes of farmers in East Africa.
Feature
14th April 2014
How Kenya can turn its gender and climate change commitments into reality Kenya has strongly promoted gender equity and women’s participation in climate change mitigation and adaptation programmes. Emma Bowa of CARE Kenya talked to CDKN's Giovanna Grandoni about whether these aspirations have translated into reality.
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Project
Completed
Project : Climate impacts and resilience in Caribbean agriculture

This project aims to bridge the knowledge gap and increase the dialogue between cocoa and tomato growers and researchers in the Caribbean. It also seeks to establish a set of protocols that can be used to screen tropical plants for resilience to drought and heat stress and create models to help visualize the various ways that climate change could impact current crop production.

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4th April 2014
Supporting climate resilient value chains Supporting climate resilient value chains
Feature
31st March 2014
Let's respond to the IPCC’s latest report with inspired action Sam Bickersteth and Mairi Dupar of CDKN respond to the IPCC’s Working Group II report on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation.
Feature
12th February 2014
How can we grow more, sustainably, and pay for it? Financing agricultural intensification CDKN's Chief Executive Sam Bickersteth reflects on the challenge of growing more, nutritious food, with least environmental impact, and getting the institutional channels in place to finance it.
News
6th February 2014
Workshop drives south-south collaboration in modelling the costs of mitigation actions A group of southern research institutions are breaking new ground in understanding the socio-economic costs of mitigation actions, like carbon taxes, on national economies.
Feature
5th February 2014
The collapsing energy, water and food triangle in Asia Elizabeth Gogoi from CDKN reflects on the central theme of this year’s Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) and what learning CDKN can offer from Madurai, India
Feature
31st January 2014
Encouraging agroforestry for REDD+ in Zambia Are public funds best spent subsidising the initial cost of trees or rewarding farmers for tree survival? Kelsey Jack shares findings from a recent CDKN-supported study.