Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa must undergo significant productivity improvements to meet the combined challenges of population growth and climate change [...]

UNFCCC, Bonn 2013

An analysis of the determinants and the intensity of adoption of two components of Conservation Farming in Zambia. Findings suggests that farmers are using these practices as a strategy to mitigate the risk of rainfall variability, providing evidence – albeit indirectly – of a synergy between these practices and adaptation to climate variability. Click here for a presentation of the paper. A journal version has also been published on Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment and it is available at this link.

W. Mann (FAO), Doha 2012

Prepared as background to the 2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change, this paper highlights recent experiences with country-level implementation of CSA and identifies some key lessons to incorporate in ongoing efforts to expand the use of the approach in developing countries.

After two weeks of meetings, SBSTA conclusions on agriculture resulted in the few lines reproduced below, which foresee its further consideration by SBSTA 37 in Doha at the end of this year. The conclusions do not call for further submissions or an in-session workshop. They are procedural and contain no substance.By Leslie Lipper and Wendy Mann.

A. Cattaneo (FAO), Bonn 2012

In this work, EPIC proposes a rapid screening methodology to examine the 14 existing National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans (NAFSIPs), prepared in the context of CAADP, to ascertain their potential to generate climate change benefits. The screening showed that the activities planned would generate climate benefits in terms of adaptation to slow-onset climate change (60%), adaptation to extreme events (18%) and climate change mitigation (19%).

This paper provides a brief review of the adaptation and mitigation benefits from various practices, and focuses in detail on empirical evidence concerning costs and barriers to adoption, both from household and project-level data.

This paper synthesizes the results of a literature review reporting the evidence base of different sustainable land management practices aimed at increasing and stabilizing crop productivity in developing countries.