Two Degrees Up climate change films published by Reuters AlertNet

19 June, 2012 by (comments)
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The Two Degrees Up series of short films about the possible impact of climate change on smallholder agriculture has recently been published by Reuters AlertNet. The films, originally produced to coincide with the launch of the CGIAR’s Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Research Program, take a look atRead More …

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Filed Under: Africa, CIAT in the media, Climate Change, Latin America and the Caribbean, Multimedia

BBC features CIAT’s work on coffee and climate change

30 June, 2011 by (comments)

BBC Mundo has just published this great in-depth article about coffee and climate change in Latin America. The article features the insights of CIAT climate change experts Peter Laderach and Andy Jarvis of our Decision and Policy Analysis program, as well as an abridged version of the Two Degrees Up: ColombiaRead More …

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Filed Under: CIAT in the media, Climate Change, Latin America and the Caribbean, Regions

Two Degrees Up video series – 10,000 online hits, and rising

5 May, 2011 by (comments)

If you still haven’t seen them, the recent series of Two Degrees Up climate change photofilms, released for the launch of the CGIAR’s Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in December last year, are continuing to attract plenty of online viewers. This week they reached andRead More …

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Filed Under: Africa, Climate Change, Latin America and the Caribbean, Multimedia, Regions

Heat hits Colombian coffee production

14 March, 2011 by (comments)

The New York Times reports that coffee producers in Colombia are struggling with higher temperatures and unpredictable rains, contributing to a slump in yields. This is something we heard repeatedly from farmers in Colombia’s Cauca department, while recording material for the Two Degrees Up series of climate change photofilms. WhileRead More …

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Filed Under: Latin America and the Caribbean, Regions

Coffee and climate change photofilm now in Spanish

1 March, 2011 by (comments)

Click to watch the Spanish version of Two Degrees Up – PART ONE: Colombia. The 6-minute photostory documents the experiences of smallholder coffee farmers in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department, who are already feeling the effects of rising temperatures on their crucial, high-value cash crop. The English version on the storyRead More …

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Filed Under: Climate Change, Latin America and the Caribbean, Multimedia, Regions

Two Degrees Up on the Oxfam blog

10 February, 2011 by (comments)

Our friends at Oxfam International have posted a piece about Two Degrees Up on their From Poverty to Power blog. The Two Degrees Up series of photofilms, produced by CIAT, was unveiled at the United Nations COP16 climate change conference in Cancun in December, during the launch of the CGIAR’sRead More …

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Bruce Campbell: rising to the challenges of a warmer world

10 February, 2011 by (comments)

Have a look at this guest article on the International Institute for Sustainable Development website by Bruce Campbell, director of the CIAT-led CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Bruce outlines the challenges to agriculture and food production of even small changes in temperature, and howRead More …

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Filed Under: Climate Change