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Subsequent to the National Climate Change Strategy (2012), the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security, and Co-operatives (MAFC) sought to outline a sector specific response to climate change impacts. This plan aims to provide the crop-agriculture sub-sector of Tanzania with a risk-based analysis and, subsequently, a plan for meeting the most urgent challenges posed by climate change.

Government is committed to adopt best practices which can accommodate climate change impacts to boost the agricultural sector in the country.

This remark was made in Dar es Salaam yesterday by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Dr Florens Turuka, during a Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Guidelines National Validation Workshop.

Conservation agriculture (CA) is promoted extensively to increase the productivity and environmental sustainability of maize production systems across sub-Saharan Africa and is often listed as a climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practice. However, the impacts of CA on food security, resilience/adaptive capacity and climate change mitigation are location-dependent and it is unknown whether CA can simultaneously address CSA’s multiple objectives. Here we evaluate four variations of CA: reduced tillage plus mulch (mulch), reduced tillage plus mulch and leguminous cover crop (Lablab), reduced tillage plus mulch and leguminous trees (CAWT), and reduced tillage plus mulch and nitrogen fertilizer (CA + F)—for their effect on CSA-relevant outcomes in highland Tanzania maize production.

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The theme of this year’s Annual Forum is Climate-Smart Agriculture in Action. GACSA’s ambitious future is based upon supporting and inspiring action. Farmers, fishers, foresters, and ranchers are at the center of this action, and therefore GACSA is devoting its Annual Forum to showcasing climate-smart agriculture in action.

The roles of indigenous crops and plants in improving nutrition and fighting HIV/AIDS Josep A. Garí Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) Distance-learning training course to build national capacities for integrating local knowledge into multi-sectoral AIDS projects Vide-conference connection with various African countries 9 September 2005

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Smallholder farmers in East Africa need information and knowledge on appropriate climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies and practices, and institutional innovations in order to effectively adapt to climate change and cope with climate variability. This paper assesses farmer uptake of climate-smart agricultural practices and innovations following a farmer learning journey through the Farms of the Future (FotF) approach.

Madagascar a connu plusieurs événements extrêmes liés aux variabilités climatiques actuelles et passées durant ces dernières décennies. Les plus importants sont les cyclones, les inondations et les sécheresses. Ces perturbations deviennent de plus en plus fréquentes et intenses et génèrent des impacts importants notamment en matière de pertes de vie humaine, de diminution de production agricole et animale, de destruction des infrastructures, de dégradation des ressources naturelles (eaux, sols et forêts) et d’érosion côtière, rendant ainsi précaires la sécurité alimentaire, l’alimentation en eau potable et l’irrigation, la santé publique et la gestion de l’environnement et du mode de vie. Ces impacts mettent la population malgache et ses activités de développement en situation de vulnérabilité répétitive et croissante.

There are few direct measurements of anthropogenic climate-forcing emissions in Africa, making it difficult to accurately assess current emissions and to anticipate changes in future emissions. Emissions databases suggest that sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), home to less than 15% of the world's population, is responsible for 11% of anthropogenic methane (CH4) and 18% of anthropogenic nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions globally, though this includes substantial emissions from biomass burning that would occur in the absence of contemporary anthropogenic activity, and which may be over-estimated. SSA is also an important source of precursors to the greenhouse gas tropospheric ozone, and of mineral dust, which has a range of impacts on climate. Eliminating food insecurity and poverty is likely to take priority over greenhouse gas mitigation in the region, so innovations in mitigation must focus on ways to reduce emissions as an ancillary benefit of improving livelihoods.