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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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

Maize – highly sensitive to rising temperatures

15 March, 2011 by (comments)

A one-degree Celsius temperature rise can cause massive yield losses in maize, according to a soon-to-be-published study from Stanford University and CIAT sister center, the International Center for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT). The study, due to be published in Nature Climate Change, found that a single degree Celsius increase inRead More …

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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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Ghana’s water-stress timebomb

31 January, 2011 by (comments)

Ghana could soon become one of the most water-stressed nations on Earth. That’s one of the findings of a new report from Ghana’s Water Research Institute, part of the West African country’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which has linked the likelihood of acute water shortages to climateRead More …

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Filed Under: Africa, Regions