Responding to climate related risks to address food insecurity in Nyando, Kenya
Since 2011, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is facilitating a partnership around collective action in seven villages that integrates a science approach to deliver development outcomes in Nyando. The approach is based on a climate-smart village...
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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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| author | CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security |
| author_browse | CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security |
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| description | Since 2011, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture
and Food Security (CCAFS) is facilitating a partnership around
collective action in seven villages that integrates a science approach to
deliver development outcomes in Nyando. The approach is based on a
climate-smart village (CSV) model, focusing on improving local knowledge
of climate risks and variability in seasonal rainfall, dry spells, and
diseases and pests to inform farming decisions. The goal is to respond
to climate variability, improve food security and enhance household
incomes. This is achieved through the participatory testing of resilient
technologies, training to build the knowledge and capacity to change
local practices and improve planning for adaptation to changing farming
conditions. Through participatory action research approaches, the
partnership is facilitating the testing of a portfolio of climate-smart
agriculture (CSA) interventions, allowing farming households to make
progressive changes to their crops and cropping patterns as well as
introducing new resilient livestock breeds. The new livestock breeds
are able to withstand heat stress, better utilize low quality forage, cope
with the disease burden, recover from drought with faster compensatory
growth, therefore maturing to market weight within a shorter
period compared to the local breeds. The farming households are able
to combine these scientific tools and products with changes from adaptive
management to address climate related risks and build resilience at
local scales. |
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| institution | CGIAR Consortium |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2015 |
| publishDateRange | 2015 |
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| spelling | CGSpace683892024-01-09T09:47:53Z Responding to climate related risks to address food insecurity in Nyando, Kenya CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security agriculture adaptation livestock risk management crops gender Since 2011, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is facilitating a partnership around collective action in seven villages that integrates a science approach to deliver development outcomes in Nyando. The approach is based on a climate-smart village (CSV) model, focusing on improving local knowledge of climate risks and variability in seasonal rainfall, dry spells, and diseases and pests to inform farming decisions. The goal is to respond to climate variability, improve food security and enhance household incomes. This is achieved through the participatory testing of resilient technologies, training to build the knowledge and capacity to change local practices and improve planning for adaptation to changing farming conditions. Through participatory action research approaches, the partnership is facilitating the testing of a portfolio of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) interventions, allowing farming households to make progressive changes to their crops and cropping patterns as well as introducing new resilient livestock breeds. The new livestock breeds are able to withstand heat stress, better utilize low quality forage, cope with the disease burden, recover from drought with faster compensatory growth, therefore maturing to market weight within a shorter period compared to the local breeds. The farming households are able to combine these scientific tools and products with changes from adaptive management to address climate related risks and build resilience at local scales. 2015-05-07 2015-10-01T08:40:09Z 2015-10-01T08:40:09Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68389 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS EA. 2015. Responding to climate related risks to address food insecurity in Nyando, Kenya. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), East Africa. |
| spellingShingle | agriculture adaptation livestock risk management crops gender CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Responding to climate related risks to address food insecurity in Nyando, Kenya |
| title | Responding to climate related risks to address food insecurity in Nyando, Kenya |
| title_full | Responding to climate related risks to address food insecurity in Nyando, Kenya |
| title_fullStr | Responding to climate related risks to address food insecurity in Nyando, Kenya |
| title_full_unstemmed | Responding to climate related risks to address food insecurity in Nyando, Kenya |
| title_short | Responding to climate related risks to address food insecurity in Nyando, Kenya |
| title_sort | responding to climate related risks to address food insecurity in nyando kenya |
| topic | agriculture adaptation livestock risk management crops gender |
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