This paper assesses farmers' incentives and conditioning factors that hinder or promote adaptation strategies and evaluates its impact on crop productivity by utilizing household level data collected in 2011 from nationally representative sample households in Malawi [...]

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

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.

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.

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.

Building on FAO policy advice and incorporating lessons from ongoing agricultural carbon finance projects of FAO and other organizations, this document provides an overview of potential mitigation finance opportunities for soil carbon sequestration.

Developing Climate-Smart Agriculture is crucial to achieving food security and climate change goals. This paper examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation.    

Potential synergies between food security, adaptation and climate change mitigation from land-based agricultural practices could help to generate multiple benefits needed to address the multiple demands placed on agriculture. This work explores these synergies and indicates promising mitigation options with synergies, options that involve trade-offs, possible options for required financing, and possible elements in designing country implementation processes.