Agroforestry World
By Lou Munden In May of 2011, my staff and I began to examine a really interesting finance challenge – smallholder agriculture projects in Africa. Our question was simple: how could we connect those projects with reliable sources...
Improving developing country farmers‘ income is one of the most effective ways to reduce their vulnerability to climate change. This is one of the conclusions that Henry Neufeldt, climate change scientist at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, and Tannis...
Written by Paul Stapleton Paradoxically, a group of scientists packed into a meeting room at the Planet under Pressure conference to discuss how to communicate climate change and improve the public’s consideration of the issue.
The most common type of “social protection” that farmers have access to either provides relief from deprivation through cash transfers or through weather indexed insurance.
Two popular themes at the Planet under Pressure conference seem to be integration of knowledge and promotion of dialogue. Scientists, regardless of disciplines are all for this – at least in theory.