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Printer-friendly versionWhich climate services do farmers and pastoralists need in Malawi?
This report presents final findings from the baseline data collection exercise conducted for the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) Adaptation Programme in Africa. The GFCS programme seeks to improve climate services for agriculture, food security, heath and disaster risk reduction in Tanzania and Malawi.
Type of Risk:
Production related-risks
Type of Risk management option:
Risk Coping
Organization:
CGIAR CCAFS
Publication Date:
2015
Online Location:
https://ccafs.cgiar.org/publications/which-climate-services-do-farmers-and-pasto...
Number of Pages:
47
Language:
English
Region:
Africa
Country:
Malawi
Country:
Tanzania Publications Link:
https://ccafs.cgiar.org/publications/which-climate-services-do-farmers-and-pasto...
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/65727/WP%20112.pdf
Windward Islands bananas/diversification
Region:
Latin America and Caribbean
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2750/Default.aspx Description:
The threat to the Windward Isl
Project Date:
Wed, 01/01/1997
Organization:
Natural Resources International Limited
Social Sciences Department, Natural Resources Institute
Water and Food Challenge Programme
Region:
Global
Country:
Brazil
Country:
Japan
Country:
Philippines
Country:
Sweden
Country:
Uganda
Country:
United States of America
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60685/Default.aspx Description:
In developing countries, wa
Project Date:
Tue, 04/01/2008
Organization:
Challenge Program on Water and Food Secretariat
- agricultural land
- agricultural research
- agriculture
- Agroforestry
- Aquaculture
- aquifers
- biodiversity
- Capacity Building
- catchment hydrology
- civil society
- Climate
- climate models
- communicable diseases
- communication policy
- communication process
- communications strategy
- community participation
- community-based management
- conflict management
- conflict resolution
- Constraints
- cost benefit analysis
- Crop Management
- Crop production
- cropping systems
- crops
- customary law
- dams
- decision making
- decision support
- decision support systems
- decision support tools
- Development
- disease transmission
- disease vectors
- Drought
- ecosystem services
- ecosystems
- electricity
- electricity generation
- energy
- environmental management
- Environmental services
- Evaluation
- farmer participatory research
- Farming systems
- Financing
- fish culture
- fish management
- fisheries
- fisheries management
- fishery development
- fishery management
- fishery resources
- fishing communities
- flood plains
- floodplain management
- floodplains
- Food Crops
- food production
- Food Security
- gender equity
- geological surveys
- geology
- GIS (geographical information systems)
- Globalization
- governance
- grazing lands
- Groundwater
- groundwater abstraction
- health
- human nutrition
- hydroelectric schemes
- hydrological models
- Hydrology
- impact
- impact assessment
- implementation
- inland fisheries
- innovation adoption
- institutional change
- institutional issues
- institutional management
- institutions
- integrated management
- integrated water resources management
- Investment
- investments
- irrigated farming
- irrigation
- irrigation schemes
- knowledge
- lakes
- land management
- land use
- livelihood impact
- livelihoods
- Livestock
- livestock farming systems
- livestock production
- malaria
- modelling
- models
- Monitoring and evaluation
- mosquito-borne diseases
- mosquitoes
- natural resources
- natural resources management
- Oryza sativa
- outcome assessment
- parasitic diseases
- Pastoralism
- pastoralists
- Payment for environmental services
- Plant Breeding
- ponds
- Poverty
- poverty alleviation
- Poverty Reduction
- precipitation
- project evaluation
- public health
- public investment
- rain
- rainfed farming
- rainwater
- research programmes
- research projects
- research results
- research uptake
- Rice
- rice field aquaculture
- river basins
- rivers
- rural livelihoods
- saline soils
- salinity
- shrimp culture
- Simulation Models
- small farmers
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
- soil
- soil analysis
- soil classification
- soil conservation
- soil fertility
- soil surveys
- sustainability
- Sustainable Agriculture
- sustainable livelihoods
- Trade
- upland rice
- upper catchments
- urban agriculture
- wastewater
- wastewater irrigation
- Water
- water access
- water allocation
- water availability
- water conflict
- water conservation
- water demand
- water development
- Water harvesting
- water law
- water management
- water policy
- water productivity
- water quality
- water reservoirs
- water resources
- water scarcity
- water security
- water storage
- water supply
- water systems
- Water use
- watershed management
- watersheds
- wetlands
- Wheat
- whole catchment management
Underlying causes of qualitative and quantitative changes in forest cover in Cameroon.
Region:
Africa
Country:
Cameroon
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1662/Default.aspx Description:
Progress has been made in rece
Project Date:
Sat, 01/04/1997
Organization:
Center for International Forestry Research
Institute of Agricultural Research for Development
Observatory of Change and Innovation in Cameroon
Overseas Development Group, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia
University of East Anglia
- Case Studies
- cropping systems
- deforestation
- Farming systems
- forest communities
- forest land
- forest management
- forest plantations
- forest policy
- forest products
- forestry
- forestry development
- forests
- GIS (geographical information systems)
- household surveys
- land use
- large scale farming
- Livelihood Diversification
- livelihoods
- Remote Sensing
- shifting cultivation
- small farms
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
To determine post-harvest practices for rice, particularly those associated with small scale milling, in Tanzania
Region:
Africa
Country:
Ghana
Country:
Tanzania
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2428/Default.aspx Description:
There is evidence of differenc
Project Date:
Sat, 01/01/2000
Organization:
Marketing Development Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania
Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives Agriculture and Livestock Division, Tanzania
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
The Research Into Use Programme (RIU)
Region:
Global
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60328/Default.aspx Description:
Research into Use (RIU) is
Project Date:
Fri, 01/06/2006
Organization:
Research Into Results Ltd, University of Edinburgh
- Acacia
- access to information
- action planning
- advocacy
- aflatoxins
- African trypanosomiasis
- agricultural and rural development
- Agricultural Development
- agricultural information
- Agricultural Policy
- agricultural research
- agricultural sector
- agriculture
- Agroforestry
- agronomy
- anaemia
- animal diseases
- animal feeding
- animal feeds
- animal health
- animal husbandry
- animal nutrition
- animal power
- animal production
- animal welfare
- Aquaculture
- aquaculture development
- aquaculture techniques
- Arachis hypogaea
- armyworms
- baits
- banana bunchy top virus
- bananas
- barley
- Beans
- biodiversity
- biological control
- biological control organisms
- biopesticides
- Biotechnology
- botanical pesticides
- Breeding
- Cajanus cajan
- Capacity Building
- carp
- Case Studies
- cassava
- cassava mosaic virus
- catchment hydrology
- cattle
- cereals
- checklists
- chickens
- chickpeas
- children
- Climate
- coastal areas
- coastal fisheries
- Cocoa
- coconut oil
- coconuts
- Coffee
- commercialization
- communicable diseases
- communication
- communication technology
- communications media
- communities
- community forestry
- community involvement
- community-based organizations
- computer simulation
- computer software
- conflict
- consensus building
- Contract Farming
- Contracts
- cost benefit analysis
- costs
- Cotton
- cotton industry
- cowpeas
- crabs
- Credit
- crop losses
- Crop Management
- Crop production
- crop protection
- crop residues
- crop yield
- cropping systems
- crops
- cultivation
- dairy cattle
- dairy industry
- data analysis
- data processing
- databases
- decentralization
- decision making
- Development
- development planning
- development policy
- development projects
- diagnosis
- diagnostic techniques
- diet
- diet studies
- dietary supplements
- diffusion of information
- diffusion of research
- direct sowing
- disease control
- disease resistance
- disease transmission
- disease vectors
- dissemination of research
- Diversification
- dogs
- domestic markets
- Draught Animal Power
- draught animals
- drought resistance
- drying
- Early Warning Systems
- East Coast Fever
- economic analysis
- Economic Development
- Economic Growth
- economic plants
- education and training
- empowerment
- Environment
- environmental conditions
- equipment
- erosion
- erosion control
- Evaluation
- exports
- Extension
- extension activities
- extension services
- fallow
- farm storage
- farmer outreach
- farmer participatory research
- farmers
- farmers associations
- farmers income
- farming
- Farming systems
- feed crops
- feeding systems
- feeds
- feedstuffs
- fermentation
- Fertilizers
- finger millet
- fish
- fish culture
- fish diseases
- fish farming
- Fish Genetics
- fish hatcheries
- fish industry
- fish processing
- fish products
- fisheries
- fisheries management
- fishermen
- fishery development
- fishery management
- fishery policy
- flours
- fodder
- fodder production
- food analysis
- food contamination
- Food Crops
- food hygiene
- food processing
- Food Products
- Food Safety
- Forecasting
- forest management
- forest policy
- forest products
- forest resources
- forestry
- forests
- fruit
- fruit crops
- fruit flies
- fruit vegetables
- Fruits
- fuelwood
- fungal diseases
- fungicides
- Fusarium
- gender
- genetic engineering
- genetic transformation
- GIS (geographical information systems)
- global warming
- Globalization
- GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms)
- goats
- gossypium
- governance
- grain crops
- grain legumes
- grazing
- grazing lands
- green manures
- groundnuts
- Harvesting
- health
- herbicides
- highlands
- horticulture
- households
- human diseases
- hydrological models
- Hydrology
- hygiene
- ICTs (information and communication technologies)
- identification
- impact assessment
- implementation
- indigenous knowledge
- industrial crops
- infiltration
- information
- information dissemination
- information flow
- information management
- information needs
- information provision
- information services
- information sources
- Information systems
- information technology
- Infrastructure
- inland fisheries
- innovation
- innovation adoption
- innovation partnerships
- insect pests
- insect vectors
- insecticides
- insects
- institutional capacity
- institutional development
- institutional issues
- intensification
- intercropping
- intermediate means of transport
- internet
- introduced varieties
- invertebrate viruses
- IPM (integrated pest management)
- irrigated rice
- irrigation
- knowledge
- knowledge management
- knowledge sharing
- lake fisheries
- lakes
- land management
- land use
- land use change
- land use planning
- Learning
- legislation
- legumes
- lentils
- lessons learned
- liming
- livelihoods
- Livestock
- livestock development
- livestock farming systems
- livestock management
- livestock production
- livestock trypanosomiasis
- locusts
- losses
- Maize
- mangoes
- manuals
- manufacture
- market intelligence
- market research
- Marketing
- marketing channels
- markets
- mechanization
- medicinal plants
- Microcredit
- microirrigation
- milk production
- milk yield
- millet
- models
- Monitoring
- multipurpose trees
- mung beans
- mycotoxins
- natural drying
- natural resources
- nematode control
- nematode infections
- nematodes
- networking
- non-motorized transport
- non-wood forest products
- nutritive value
- nuts
- oilseeds
- Oryza sativa
- parasites
- parasitic diseases
- parthenium
- participation
- participatory development
- participatory research
- pearl millet
- peri-urban areas
- peri-urban communities
- pest control
- pest insects
- Pest Management
- pest resistance
- Pesticides
- Pests
- Phaseolus
- Phaseolus vulgaris
- Pheromone traps
- photography
- pigeon peas
- planning
- Plant Breeding
- plant diseases
- plant establishment
- plant genetic resources
- plant nematodes
- plant nutrition
- plant pathology
- plant pests
- plant protection
- plant viruses
- plantations
- plants
- Policy
- politics
- pollution
- ponds
- postharvest
- postharvest losses
- postharvest technology
- potatoes
- poultry
- poultry farming
- Poverty
- Poverty Reduction
- poverty reduction strategies
- presses
- Private Sector
- processing
- processing technology
- project evaluation
- Prosopis juliflora
- Prostephanus truncatus
- public finance
- public health
- public private partnerships
- quality control
- rabies
- radio
- rain
- rainfed farming
- rainwater
- Remote Sensing
- renewable natural resources
- renewable resources
- Research
- research methods
- research monitoring
- research networks
- research projects
- research uptake
- research workers
- resources
- restocking
- Rice
- rice field aquaculture
- rice tungro virus
- road infrastructure
- root rots
- root systems
- rooting
- rotational cropping
- rubber
- rural areas
- rural communication
- rural communities
- Rural development
- rural livelihoods
- seafoods
- seed certification
- seed industry
- seed potatoes
- seed production
- seed quality
- seed storage
- seed treatment
- Seeds
- self help
- semiarid zones
- sheep
- silos
- Simulation Models
- skills training
- small and medium enterprises
- small animal rearing
- small businesses
- small enterprises
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
- social capital
- socioeconomic development
- socioeconomics
- soil conservation
- soil erosion
- soil fertility
- soil management
- soil pollution
- soil quality
- solar energy
- Sorghum
- Soybeans
- Spodoptera
- Spodoptera exempta
- stakeholders
- starch
- starch crops
- starch industry
- Statistics
- Storage
- storage losses
- storage structures
- stored products pests
- straw
- Striga
- Striga asiatica
- subsistence farming
- sustainability
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Sustainable Development
- sustainable livelihoods
- sweet potatoes
- tannins
- technological innovations
- Technology transfer
- Tectona grandis
- television
- testing
- tilapia
- tillage
- tillage equipment
- timber
- tissue culture
- tomatoes
- toolkits
- tools
- trace elements
- trade policy
- traditional medicines
- Training
- training packs
- training programmes
- transgenic plants
- transport
- trapping
- traps
- tree crops
- tree fodders
- trees
- tropical coastal aquaculture
- tropical forests
- tropical fruits
- tropics
- Trypanosoma
- trypanosomiasis
- tuberculosis
- tubers
- urban agriculture
- urban areas
- urban development
- urban planning
- urbanisation
- vaccination
- vaccines
- varieties
- variety trials
- vegetable crops
- vegetable growing
- Vegetables
- veterinary services
- video
- Vigna mungo
- vigna subterranea
- Water
- water conservation
- water development
- Water harvesting
- water management
- water pollution
- water resources
- Water use
- watershed management
- watersheds
- websites
- weed control
- weeds
- Wheat
- whiteflies
- women
- working animals
- Xanthomonas
- yams
- youth
- Zea mays
- zoonoses
The development of integrated weed management strategies for hillsides in the valleys of Cochabamba, Bolivia
Region:
Latin America and Caribbean
Country:
Bolivia
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2201/Default.aspx Description:
Within Bolivia, poverty and fo
Project Date:
Sat, 01/02/1999
Organization:
Centro de Investigacion Formacion y Extension en Mecanizacion Agricola, Universided Mayor de San Simon
Faculty of Agriculture and Livestock Science, Universidad Mayor de San Simon
Gonzales Associates
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Silsoe Research Institute
- agriculture
- browse plants
- ethnobotany
- Farming systems
- hillsides
- legumes
- Research
- root crops
- sloping land
- Smallholder farmers
- smallholders
- soil conservation
- sustainability
- Vegetables
- water conservation
- weed control
- weed management
- weed science
- weeds
Testing biological control of pest termites for maize-based farming systems in Uganda
Region:
Africa
Country:
Uganda
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2858/Default.aspx Description:
Biological control strategies
Project Date:
Tue, 01/04/2000 - Thu, 01/04/2001
Organization:
Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
Technical advice on the ecology of grasshopper pests of oil palm in PNG
Region:
East Asia and Pacific
Country:
Papua New Guinea
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/3242/Default.aspx Description:
The major pest of oil palm in
Project Date:
Wed, 01/03/2001
Organization:
Natural Resources Institute
Natural Resources International Limited
PNG Oil Palm Association
- grasshoppers
- IPM (integrated pest management)
- oil palms
- pest insects
- Segestes defoliaria
- Segestidea decoratus
- smallholders
Sustainability of modern irrigated agricultural systems
Region:
Africa
Country:
Zimbabwe
Website Link:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/1442/Default.aspx Description:
The World Bank estimated that
Project Date:
Sat, 01/06/1996
Organization:
AGRITEX, Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Water
HR Wallingford Group Ltd
- agriculture
- community development
- design
- Developing Countries
- farmers attitudes
- farmers income
- irrigated farming
- irrigation
- irrigation equipment
- irrigation systems
- pipelines
- Research
- Rural development
- small farms
- smallholders
- sprinkler irrigation
- sprinklers
- sustainability
- technical aid
- W5
- Water
- water distribution systems
- water resources
- water scarcity
- water supply