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Susan Onyango
Susan Onyango is the Global Communications Coordinator at the World Agroforestry Centre and is based at the headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. With over 15 year’s experience in communication, she ensures efficient and effective coordination of communication support to units and regions at ICRAF. She joined ICRAF in 2014 as communications specialist for the Climate Change Unit. Susan holds a MA communication studies and a BA in English. Twitter: @susanonyango
Growing more trees on agricultural land will help farmers and the world adapt to, and mitigate, climate change, something the world’s nations began to implement at the 23rd climate-change conference as they brought agriculture onto the agenda In...
By adopting agroforestry and improved agricultural practices, a community in western Kenya has increased their income and improved their living standards. They are now training other farmers to do the same.
A group of women in Kamotony area in Kenya were worried that they were unable to provide food for their children in the face of climate change impacts. They would ask themselves, “Sasa sisi tutafanya nini kutoka hali...
As part of the historic UN Paris Climate Agreement of 2015, countries committed to fight climate change by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions from various sectors, including agriculture. Kenya is not being left behind. Stakeholders from the dairy...
Originally published on the website of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change and Food Security (CCAFS) Over half of developing countries intend to decrease greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, but commonly used methods to estimate agricultural emissions...
A blog by Kristi Foster Rural farmers in many parts of the world are already using ‘smart’ agricultural practices like intercropping, agroforestry and rainwater harvesting. But what if those practices benefitted the livelihoods and landscapes of millions...
In February, as northern Viet Nam was hit by the coldest weather in 40 years, villagers popped by Mr Trong’s house to ask about the temperature and the diligent village leader, Mr Tham, used the locally updated...
Little empirical evidence has been put forth to systematically evaluate the outcomes of climate-smart agriculture practices. A team of experts evaluated the scientific substantiation on the impacts of climate-smart agriculture. It is expected that this systematic review...
To help farmers, governments and companies adapt to a changing climate, researchers have been studying different ways of ensuring any given landscape can be ‘climate proofed’. At Asia-Pacific Forestry Week, SNV and the World Agroforestry Centre shared some...
Blog originally published on the website of the CGIAR Research Program for Climate Change and Food Security (CCAFS) Coordinated by the World Farmers’ Organisation in collaboration with the UNFCCC Secretariat, Farmers Day marked on 2 December 2015 brought together farming...
“No goal is more complicated than the goal of sustainable development,” writes Bruce Campbell, director of the CGAIR research programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in an article on the website of the World Economic...
The connection between food security and climate change cannot be understated. Governments, development organizations and scientists are teaming up to search for solutions to address this challenge. In the process, the concept of climate-smart agriculture has emerged as...
New evidence shows that having trees on farms helps farmers be more resilient to most types of natural disasters. But to support farmers making the gradual change to more trees, land-use planners themselves need support. Although tree-based...
It is a huge challenge that we have to satisfy an ever-increasing demand for food under a changing, more variable climate. But it is a dilemma that we have to do so while also having to reduce greenhouse...