Report on Farmers’ Field Days at Adami Tulu Jido Kombolcha and Bako Tibe Districts in 2017

Integrated assessment of the determinants of the maize yield gap in Sub- Saharan Africa: towards farm innovation and enabling policies (IMAGINE) Bringing CSA practices to …read more

Report on Farmers’ Field Day and Visits by CIMMYT Staff at Adami Tulu Jido Kombolcha District 2016

Integrated assessment of the determinants of the maize yield gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: towards farm innovation and enabling policies (IMAGINE) Bringing CSA practices to scale: …read more

A framework to parameterise nutrient management options and their impacts on maize yield, nutrient losses and long term soil fertility

Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) encompasses all practices that mitigate climate change and at the same time enhance farmers’ livelihoods and adaptation to changing climate. Nutrient …read more

Developing a running prototype of a bio-economic farm model for a trade-off analysis of different nutrient management options for maize cultivation in East-Africa

Considering projected population trends, food requirements in East Africa will drastically increase in the coming decades (van Ittersum et al., 2016). One way to ensure …read more

Multi-scale measurements show limited soil greenhouse gas emissions in Kenyan smallholder coffee-dairy systems

Farmers and climate to profit from more precise fertilizer management

Seminal study on nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer in large-scale irrigated wheat cropping systems shows that reducing nitrogen fertilizer rates significantly cuts emissions, without reducing …read more

Grow more food and mitigate climate change? Agricultural soil data could help!

Discovery and accessibility of agricultural soil data is critical to improving agricultural policies and production and increasing adaptation and mitigation to climate change. Understanding agricultural …read more

Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from conventional and modified rice cultivation systems in South India

What are the effects of agricultural management on soil organic carbon in boreo-temperate systems?

Expanding young researchers’ knowledge on options for reducing agricultural emissions

Climate, Food and Farming Network students presented current research on climate change mitigation in agriculture in November, as CLIFF call for 2018 opens. Climate change …read more