Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

Climate Change Threatens Quechua and Their Crops in Peru’s Andes

By Fabíola Ortiz
In this town in Peru’s highlands over 3,000 metres above sea level, in the mountains surrounding the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the Quechua Indians who have lived here since time immemorial are worried about threats to their potato crops from alterations in rainfall patterns and temperatures.

OPINION: How Shifting to the Cloud Can Unlock Innovation for Food and Farming

By Andy Jarvis
The digital revolution that is continuing to develop at lightening speed is an exciting new ally in our fight for global food security in the face of climate change.

U.N. Pushes Climate-Smart Agriculture – But Are the Farmers Willing to Change?

By Manipadma Jena
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to make a strong pitch to world political leaders at the U.N. Climate Summit in New York on Sep. 23 to accept new emissions targets and their timelines.


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