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The Global Yield Gap Atlas project (GYGA - http://yieldgap.org ) has undertaken a yield gap assessment following the protocol recommended by van Ittersum et. al. (van Ittersum et. al., 2013). This datafile holds the results for rainfed rice.

A total of 256 surveys were analyzed for Caquetá and 227 surveys forYurimaguas. These surveys belong to the project "Sustainable Amazonian Landcapes" ( see below Related Datasets). All the households that participated in the survey did it freely and under prior informed consent. Households were asked about their farms’ agrobiodiversity (crops, cattle ranching, and pastoral diversity), farming activities, agroecological management practices and livelihood assets. These surveys provided the information required for defining the household typologies based on farming livelihood diversification and to obtain indicators of vulnerability to climate change. People surveyed usually were household heads or their spouses. The supervisors were the direct link with CIAT. The data was collected through Android Devices using the software CsPro 6.2 and 6.3. (Reporte Interno)

Estimate the effects of adaptation to climate change on productivity variables by coffee-growing households.

This dataset contains files produced for and generated from the CCAFS Household Baseline Study carried out in sites in Latin America (Trifinio in Honduras/Guatemala, and Cauca in Colombia) and in South-East Asia (a site in each of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) in the latter months of 2014 and the early months of 2015. There are six sites in all (two sites from Trifinio). Before downloading any of the files, particularly the data files, please download and read the CCAFS ReadMe file which is prefixed by the code 0000. To gain access to the GPS coordinates from the restricted files please download and complete the Non-disclosure agreement from the file "0002 Non-Disclosure Agreement 2013-01-20.pdf" and send this to Wiebke Foerch at w.foerch@cgiar.org The study was based on earlier baseline studies carried out in sites in West and East Africa and in South Asia. Data and other files from these earlier studies are available in a separate dataset in this Dataverse archive. (CCAFS Household Baseline Survey 2010-2012). If you are intending to use data from both studies together we suggest you read the file "0001 Questionnaire Differences & Recoding Details 2015-10-29.pdf" which explains differences between the two studies.

Methodology: To carry out the calculation of these agroclimatic indicators, daily data of the following climatic variables were used at a resolution of 5 km: Maximum and minimum temperatures (source: CHIRTS). The indicators were calculated for each month during a period of 33 years (1983 - 2016). With the above, the indicators were calculated per month during 1983 -2016 and finally, in order to summarize the calculated indicators, an aggregation of data was carried out, calculating the average in the following time periods: 1983 - 2016, 1990 - 2016, 1995 - 2016, 2000 – 2016, 2005 – 2016, 2010 – 2016. The purpose for which these crop-specific indicators were created is to group or characterize the different accessions available in the Genesys database, considering the climatic data from where they were collected. For this, it is necessary to carry out a characterization of zones based on these specific ones per crop, which are part of evaluating when crops are exposed to heat stress.

The Global Yield Gap Atlas project (GYGA - http://yieldgap.org ) has undertaken a yield gap assessment following the protocol recommended by van Ittersum et. al. (van Ittersum et. al., 2013). This datafile holds the results for rainfed sugarcane.

The Kenya climate risk profile data contains climate, biophysical, socio economic and demographic characteristics, crops production, stakeholders, characterization of selected value chains and risks and adaptation components. All the dataset, except climate records, were collected in three phases between 2016 and 2021. The risk profiles covered the 45 rural counties of Kenya (excluding the 2 urban counties of Nairobi and Mombasa) and were developed in partnership with the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives (MoALFC). Methodology: The methodology combined literature review (peer-reviewed journals, grey literature), data collection from key statistical resources (national census, county development plan, etc.), climate modelling and qualitative data collection tools such as key informant interviews, participatory workshops, and focus group discussions. For each profile, a prioritization process took place in the county with the key relevant stakeholders. The process included a presentation of the ten main value chains (VCs) of the county and a selection of the four main value chains by assessing them against a set of criteria: contribution to food security, productivity, importance to the economy; resilience to current and future climate change; population engaged in the value chain; and engagement of poor and marginalized groups.

In Cameroon, as in other countries of the Congo basin region, policy processes and activities related to climate change have been hitherto geared mostly towards mitigation and related questions, with limited concern about adaptation issues. However, the increasing vulnerability of Cameroon to climate variability and change makes adaptation significant to its national climate-change policy. Nonetheless, it remains a challenge to make both adaptation and mitigation occupy the same policy space in Cameroon. This paper builds partly on studies carried out in two community forest carbon initiatives in the southern rainforest of Cameroon. It also argues, supported by existing literature on adaptation and mitigation, that mitigation activities have the potential to produce adaptation outcomes; a situation which avoids duplication of efforts and waste of financial and technical resources, if synergetic options are anticipated and planned. However, whether such integrated approaches succeed and are subsequently reflected in national-level climate policy depends on how actors across different sectors and at different levels engage and carry out their roles. The paper discusses these roles and how they can support each other in pursuing integrated initiatives – a context which is vital for Cameroon.