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Site-Specific Nutrient Management: Implementation guidance for policymakers and investors

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Meryl B. Richards
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Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, ML Jat, Brian Lipinski, Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, Tek Sapkota

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GACSA
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Site-Specific Nutrient Management (SSNM) provides guidance relevantto the context of farmers’ fields.SSNM maintains or enhances crop yields, while providing savings for farmers through more efficient fertilizer use. By minimizing fertilizer overuse, greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced, in some cases up to 50%.

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Nutrient Management; climate change; implementation
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GACSA
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Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA). Site-Specific Nutrient Management: Implementation guidance for policymakers and investors. Meryl B. Richards, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, ML Jat, Brian Lipinski, Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, Tek Sapkota, 2015.

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Climate-smart agriculture: A Gender-responsive Approach to Climate-Smart Agriculture

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Sibyl Nelson
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Sophia Huyer,

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FAO
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Taking a gender-responsive approach to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) means that the particular needs, priorities, and realities of men and women are recognized and adequately addressed in the design and application of CSA so that both men and women can equally benefit.

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Climate-Smart Agriculture
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FAO
Citation

Global Alliance For Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA). Climate-smart agriculture: A Gender-responsive Approach to Climate-Smart Agriculture, 2016. Sibyl Nelson, Consultant for FAO & Sophia Huyer, Gender and Social Inclusion Research Leader, CCAFS.

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Making Adaptation Count Concepts and Options for Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation

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Margaret Spearman
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Heather McGray, World Resources Institute

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GIZ
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This paper aims to provide adaptation and development practitioners with a practical framework for developing Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems that can track the success and failure of adaptation initiatives in the development context.

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Climate Change; Indicators and GIZ
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+49 6196 79-0
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GIZ
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Making Adaptation Count Concepts and Options for Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation, Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5 D-65760 Eschborn, Germany.

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SADC Poverty and Food Security Ministers’ Workshop: Poverty and Food Security Issues

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SADC
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SADC
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This presentation was help at a SADC Poverty and Food Security Ministers' Workshop to discuss poverty and food security issues.

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Food security and poverty eradication
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SADC

Climate Smart Agriculture 101

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Author or Institution as Author
CCAFS
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Olaf Westermann (CCAFS), Dhanush Dinesh (CCAFS), Sonja Vermuelen (CCAFS/UCPH), Bruce Campbell (CCAFS/UCPH), Tobias Baedeker (World Bank), Marc Sadler (World Bank)

Peter Cooper (CCAFS), Philip Thornton (CCAFS/ILRI), Jim Hansen (CCAFS/IRI), Dough Beare (Globefish Consultancy Services), Melody Braun (IRI), Joost Vervoort (CCAFS/University of Oxford), Mikkel Funder and Julie Fogt Rasmussen (DIIS), Matthew Leete (FAO), Sophia Huyer (WISAT/CCAFS), Catherine Hill (CCAFS/CIAT), Todd Rosenstock (ICRAF), Evan Girvetz (CIAT), Caitlin Corner-Dolloff (CIAT), Alberto Millan (World Bank/CCAFS), Ioannis Vasileiou (World Bank/CCAFS/IFPRI), Tobias Baedeker (World Bank), Olaf Westermann (CCAFS), Dhanush Dinesh (CCAFS), Sonja Vermuelen (CCAFS/UCPH), Bruce Campbell (CCAFS/UCPH)

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CCAFS
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The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and partners developed a website presenting the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approach to food security and sustainable development. The website aims to help practitioners, researchers and decision-makers working with or interested in CSA. The site helps you get started and guide you on the ground, connecting you with all the resources you need to dig deeper. For countries following up on their commitments under the Paris Agreement, CSA Guide is a useful tool to set up mitigation and adaptation initiatives in agriculture.

The website is divided into six parts:

The basics - The basics section provides users with crucial information about what climate-smart agriculture is, how it helps address important challenges, how it is different from other sustainable agriculture approaches, and suggests introductory reading materials and videos.

Entry points - The next section gives an introduction into the numerous entry points for initiating CSA programmes. To help users navigate among them, they are presented under three thematic areas: Practices, Systems approaches and Enabling environments.

Develop a CSA plan - The website presents a specific approach to develop a CSA plan. This section was developed to provide a guide for operationalizing CSA planning, implementation and monitoring at scale. It consists of four subsections: Situation analysis, Targeting and prioritization, Programme support, and Monitoring, evaluation and learning.

Finance - The finance section offers an overview of potential sources of funding for CSA activities as national, regional and international levels. It also includes options to search among a range of funding opportunities according to CSA focus area, sector and financing instrument.

Resource library - In the resource library, users have access to all the references, key resources, key terms and frequently asked questions to get a quick overview that can be used as part of or independently of the other sections.

Case studies - And finally, the case studies section shows all the specific projects that are detailed in the basics and entry point sections. The interactive map allows users to view all case studies at once or filter the search by entry points. An extensive portfolio of content, a highly visual design, and user friendly interface will allow users to find specific points of interest or follow the flow of information from the basics section, over entry points to CSA, CSA plan, CSA finance, a resource library and case studies. 

Keywords
Climate Smart Agriculture
CSA
Entry points
Case study
Planning
Finance
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Olaf Westermann
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CCAFS
Citation

CCAFS 2016. Climate Smart Agriculture 101. CCAFS Program Management Unit - Wageningen University & Research, Lumen building, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.

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Regional Information, Communication and Knowledge Management (ICKM) System Pamphlet

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CCARDESA
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CCARDESA
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CCARDESA ICKM System overview pamphlet.

CCARDESA aspires to be a regional knowledge hub that facilitates the sharing of agricultural information and research across the SADC region. Thus, CCARDESA has incorporated knowledge, information and communication as one of the key Thematic Focal Areas of the organisation.

CCARDESA undertakes programmes and projects that promote knowledge generation, knowledge management and dissemination of agricultural research through the utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), among others. CCARDESA strives to ensure that credible information is made accessible to all interested stakeholders from policy makers to smallholder farmers.

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ICKM
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Dydimus Zengenene
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CCARDESA
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CCARDESA 2017. Regional Information, Communication and Knowledge Management (ICKM) System Pamphlet. Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development in Southern Africa, Gaborone, Botswana. 

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Scaling Up and Scalability: Concepts, Frameworks and Assessment Report

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Ponniah Anandajayasekeram
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Vuna
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Effective scaling up is a key measure of success for an innovation or intervention. A new approach is typically tested in a pilot project that has limited reach. With monitoring and evaluation (M&E), the lessons learned from the pilot can be used to scale up the model to create larger socioeconomic and developmental impacts. The decision to scale up, however, is often made with incomplete information. Given the high cost of scaling up, it is important for governments and development partners to carefully decide which innovations are ready for further investment. A good understanding of the scaling-up process and a framework for analysing scalability is critical for informed decision-making.

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Scaling Up and Scalability
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Vuna Africa
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+27 12 342 3819
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Vuna Africa
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Anandajayasekeram, Ponniah. 2016. Scaling Up and Scalability: Concepts, Frameworks and Assessment. Vuna Research Report. Pretoria: Vuna. Online: Anandajayasekeram, Ponniah. 2016. Scaling Up and Scalability: Concepts, Frameworks and Assessment. Vuna Research Report. Pretoria: Vuna. Online: http://www.vuna-africa.com

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Assessing the contributions of conservation agriculture to building resilience to drought - Review

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Kizito Mazvimavi
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Vuna
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This literature review summarises theory and evidence of the contribution of conservation agriculture (CA) to resilence in the event of drought. A resilient agricultural system is able to continue to function and provide essential ecosystem services, such as food provisioning, following an external shock. If drought occurs, a more resilient system should o er higher productivity and food security. The review asks whether CA improves productivity and food security when rainfall is poor, and what aspects of CA contribute most to these benefits. The review will guide the design of a eld study on the impacts of CA after the 2015/16 El Nino drought in southern Africa.

Other Partners

Adam Smith

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Conservation Agriculture
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Vuna Africa
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+27 12 342 3819
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Vuna Africa
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Brooks, Nick. 2016. Transformational Adaptation to Climate Change: Concepts, Examples, and Relevance for Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa. Pretoria: Vuna. Online: http://www.vuna-africa.com

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Assessing the contributions of conservation agriculture to building resilience to drought - Report

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Kizito Mazvimavi
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Vuna
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Climate policy commonly carries an implicit assumption that incremental improvements in agricultural systems are adequate to make them resilient to climate change. In some cases, however, agricultural systems may cross certain environmental thresholds that require more transformational adaptation.

Governments and development agencies need to improve their understanding of climate thresholds and their preparedness for transformational adaptation. Climate smart agriculture frameworks should consider the piloting of strategies for transformational adaptation.

Other Partners

Adam Smith

Keywords
Conservation Agriculture
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Vuna Africa
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+27 12 342 3819
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Vuna Africa
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Brooks, Nick. 2016. Transformational Adaptation to Climate Change: Concepts, Examples, and Relevance for Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa. Pretoria: Vuna. Online: http://www.vuna-africa.com

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Transformational Adaptation to Climate Change Report

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Nick Brooks
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Luna
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Climate policy commonly carries an implicit assumption that incremental improvements in agricultural systems are adequate to make them resilient to climate change. In some cases, however, agricultural systems may cross certain environmental thresholds that require more transformational adaptation. Governments and development agencies need to improve their understanding of climate thresholds and their preparedness for transformational adaptation. Climate smart agriculture frameworks should consider the piloting of strategies for transformational adaptation.

Other Partners

Adam Smith

Keywords
Adaptation to Climate Change
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+27 12 342 3819
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Vuna Africa
Citation

Brooks, Nick. 2016. Transformational Adaptation to Climate Change: Concepts, Examples, and Relevance for Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa. Pretoria: Vuna. Online: http://www.vuna-africa.com

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Funding Partners

4.61M

Beneficiaries Reached

97000

Farmers Trained

3720

Number of Value Chain Actors Accessing CSA

41300

Lead Farmers Supported