Climate adaptation and mitigation — Improving small-scale producers’
resilience and reducing greenhouse
gas emissions from food systems.

Climate adaptation and mitigation

ILRI research contributes to the CGIAR impact area on Climate Adaptation and Mitigation.

Climate change poses major risks for food production, livelihoods and nutrition through high temperatures, erratic rainfall, drought, flooding, and sea level rise. On the flip side, agriculture and food systems produce almost a third of global greenhouse gas emissions—yet they could be a global carbon sink. Supporting vulnerable small-scale producers to adapt to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agrifood value chains are essential for sustaining food systems and ensuring food and nutrition security.

Innovations

Volunteer Farmer Trainers as agents of change

A vaccine against the lethal cattle disease East Coast fever

Models and methodologies to track emissions

Harnessing the power of data to transform food systems

Community-based sheep and goat breeding

Climate-smart modeling and futures

Affordable insurance for smallholder farmers and herders

Climate adaptation and mitigation research initiatives

Harnessing Gender and Social Equality for Resilience in Agrifood Systems

Livestock, Climate and System Resilience

Mitigate+: Research for Low-Emission Food Systems

Ukama Ustawi: Diversification for Resilient Agribusiness Ecosystems in East and Southern Africa

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