Past News

The Second Strategic Committee Meeting of GACSA was held from 13-14 October 2015 in Rome, Italy

This consultative process is a Co-chairs’ convened exercise to introduce a broad based dialogue on main priorities for the second year of the GACSA operations. The launch will be on January 13 and 14 in Rome.

This publication provides a sober and revealing analysis of weather-related disaster trends over a twenty year time frame which coincides with a period which has seen the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties become an established high- profile annual fixture on the development calendar.  Over the last twenty years, the...

195 Nations Set Path to Keep Temperature Rise Well Below 2 Degrees Celsius In Paris, on 12 December 2015, a historic agreement to combat climate change and unleash actions and investment towards a low carbon, resilient and sustainable future was agreed by 195 nations in Paris. The Paris Agreement for the...

First-ever analysis of agriculture in national climate plans calls on negotiators to ramp up investments in the sector.

Part of the "Climate Justice" series produced by The Huffington Post, read the article by Frank Rijsberman CEO of CGIAR Consortium. The series puts a spotlight on populations who are adversely affected by climate change. To view the entire series, visit here

During the 2015 Global Landscape Forum at COP21, eight ministers of agriculture from across Central America and the Caribbean announced an unprecedented joint effort to pool resources against the threat of climate change. Costa Rica’s Agriculture Minister Arauz brought together his regional counterparts and partners from research to set out the...

The Practice Briefs on Climate-Smart Agriculture developed by the Knowledge Action Group are online! The briefs intend to provide practical operational information on climate-smart agricultural practices.  Site-Specific Nutrient Management: Implementation guidance for policymakers and investors Integrated Soil Fertility Management: Contributions of framework and practices to climate-smart agriculture  Coffee-Banana Intercropping: Implementation guidance for...

The members of GACSA are already developing, testing, and deploying climate-smart agriculture (CSA) solutions. We want to help document and publicize these efforts in order to accelerate collaboration, sharing, and learning. To initiate and facilitate this learning and sharing, the Member Engagement Team has devised an online member survey. The goal...

GACSA's Knowledge Action Group is developing a set of seven practice briefs for the inception year of the alliance. These practice briefs are just one of many product types in the group's impressive pipeline of scholarship. These briefs are designed to focus on technical documents on specific CSA practices.