This study uses the political will and public will approach to identify the obstacles and opportunities for upscaling of climate-smart agriculture innovations. In 2015 and 2018, two rounds of semi-structured stakeholder and expert interviews conducted by researchers in Uganda identified four relevant ...
This study aimed at understanding the influence of policy frameworks on climate changeadaptation in Uganda. It combined literature review on existing natural resource managementpolicies, focus group discussions with farming communities and interviews with keyinformants across various policy implementation levels...
Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Climate-Smart Agriculture Papers Todd S. Rosenstock, David Rohrbach, Andreea Nowak, and Evan Girvetz 1.1 Tracking Progress In 2001, the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighted the potential impacts ...
Comprehensive training programs Climate-smart agriculture Endogenous switching regression Adoption Welfare effects 1. Introduction In developing countries, most households depend on the agricultural sector for livelihood support. Yet, persistent low agricultural productivity and limited transformation of the food ...
We also investigated if perceiving a greater number of climatic changes influenced adaptation responses, using mixed-effects models (Methods). In Uganda, it has been shown that farmers with better skills on climate tracking (for example, recall of rainfall patterns which align with meteorological data...
Each measure is based on a proven trial in a smallholder farming environment. For example, one measure related to animal production practices focuses on improving livestock breeding systems for increased productivity and reduced GHG emissions. The approach was used in Malawi and Uganda fo...
This module provides guidance and a comprehensive menu of practical tools for integrating gender in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of projects and investments in climate-smart agriculture (CSA). The module emphasizes the importance and ultimate goal of integrating gender in CSA pr...
putting Uganda on the path to achieving 20 million bags of coffee production per year by 2025. The plan includes the distribution of 300 million seedlings per year for three years from 2016-2019. For a deep-dive into the overall policy environment, please readClimate-Smart Coffee in Uganda. ...
This work was led by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in col- laboration with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). It was implemented as part of the Partnerships for Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture (P4S) project under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, ...
2023). However, IK-based weather forecasting remains the main source of weather-related information in communities that lack science-based forecasting services, like Borana, Ethiopia (Filho et al. 2023). On the contrary, Indigenous people in Uganda don’t use IK to forecast weather because of ...