Publications

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...

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...

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...

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...

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is increasingly seen as a promising approach to feed the growing world population under climate change. The review explored how institutional perspectives are reflected in the CSA literature. In total, 137 publications were analyzed using institutional analysis...

Study of the effects of productive diversification of African agriculture on resilience and nutrition outcomes in partnership with the World Bank, FAO and IAPRI. The agriculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the backbone of national economies, sustaining rural and urban livelihoods...

This chapter described the motivation and layout of the CSA Papers. Publication Information Publication type Book chapter Publisher Springer Open Access Geographic scope Sub-Saharan Africa Authors Todd S. Rosenstock, David Rohrbach, Andreea Nowak, Evan Girvetz Year 2018 Citation Rosenstock T.S...

This paper offers an overview of how climate change is already affecting farmers across eastern and southern Africa, and how it will continue to affect them in the future. It is published as part of the CSA Papers project. Publication Information Publication type Book chapter Publisher Springer Open...

In this book chapter, we evaluate the climate smartness of CSA-based agroforestry practices in Tabora and Dodoma, Tanzania using unpublished data from earlier studies. The analysis illustrates key principles for understanding multidimensionality of CSA objectives, including: appropriate indicators...

This chapter assessed the influence of socioeconomic factors, plot characteristics, food security, and climatic variables on the adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) technologies in southern Tanzania. Using data collected from 357 households and 464 agricultural plots, a multivariate probit...

While the commercialization and diversification of agricultural and livestock systems have been identified as key global strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation, less is known as to the large-scale gendered impacts that are implicated in these transformations among smallholder crop...

Agroforestry—the integration of trees with crops and livestock—generates many benefits directly relevant to the UNFCCC’s Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture, including: (i) building resilience, (ii) increasing soil carbon and improving soil health, (iii) providing fodder and shade for sustainable...