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ERA — Evidence for Resilient Agriculture
We're creating a big data platform for decision-makers, to help identify the impact of agricultural interventions on **productivity, resilience and mitigation**.
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CSA Country Profiles
We have conducted situational analyses in **34 countries** and **31 Kenyan counties**, providing science-backed foundation for investments.
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The CSA Papers
We published an open-source book that explores five dimensions of climate-smart agriculture to help answer decade-old questions.
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Farmer carrying crops from the field. Picture from the village of Bouwéré in Mali — Risk Explicit Investment
We're using Bayesian Networks to provide insights into profitability and risks scenarios (such as weather events and political crises) of CSA investment options.
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Climate, agriculture and nutrition
We've developed agriculture-nutrition monitoring techniques now in use by the WFP in their nutrition monitoring in the DRC, Niger and Afghanistan.
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Our Work

P4S brings together government, development and research partners to mainstream the use of evidence-based approaches for scaling up Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) through an innovative approach called the ‘CSA Plan’. Under the CSA Plan, work is conducted in 24 countries in partnership with donors, governments, NGOs and development partners, using tools developed in the partnership or by other programs.

Phase I

Phase II

Publications

Challenges and opportunities for targeting climate-smart agriculture

Planning robust climate-smart development programs can be done today with existing information. We propose a risk-household-option modeling approach to address household food security under climate change in Africa. Through a case study in Niger, we demonstrate that prioritizing CSA is possible by...

When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets

This paper describes new advances in tracking progress toward global targets. It specifically focuses on technologies and techniques that help increase the coherence in what is measured, standardized in how things are measured and decision relevance or why measurements are made. Accountability and...

Information exchange links, knowledge exposure, and adoption of agricultural technologies in northern Uganda

Peer reviewed journal article published in World Development on information exchange links, knowledge exposure, and adoption of agricultural technologies in northern Uganda. Direct training of selected individuals as disseminating farmers (DFs) can help to implement a farmer to farmer extension...

Determinants of market participation and marketing channels in smallholder groundnut farming: A case of Mudzi district, Zimbabwe

Peer reviewed paper on determinants of market participation and marketing channels in smallholder groundnut farming: A case of Mudzi district, Zimbabwe. Publication Information Publication type Journal article (peer-reviewed) Publisher African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and...

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Events

Nov 07, 2019 Nov 08, 2019

Colombo, Sri Lanka

International Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Saftety

May 07, 2019 May 08, 2019

Istanbul, Turkey

ICCSAF 2019 : International Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture and Farming

Oct 08, 2019 Oct 10, 2019

Bali, Indonesia

5th Global Conference on Climate Smart Agriculture 2019

Mar 11, 2019 Mar 15, 2019

Nairobi, Kenya

Fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly

Where we Work

To date, our work is conducted in 24 countries under a four-component framework: the CSA Plan. Under the CSA Plan, work is done in partnership with donors, governments, NGOs and development partners, using tools developed in the partnership or by other programs. Click on the regions below to find out more.

P4S Team

Todd Rosenstock

Climate Change and Environmental Scientist

Evan Girvetz

Senior Scientist

Christine Lamanna

Climate Change Decision Scientist

Jules Balaya

Principal scientist

Andreea Nowak

Research and Communications Consultant

Mary Ng’endo

Nutrition and Food Security Research Scientist

Partners

The success of P4S is underpinned by partners who are committed to help scale CSA up and out. P4S is made possible by the support of donors, development partners, governments, financial services, NGOs and research institutions.