The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) shut down its activities in December 2020 at the end of its mandate. The administrative closure of the Centre was completed in November 2021.
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Climate-smart agriculture

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Climate change already affects agricultural productivity – especially of poor smallholder farmers. By 2030, 90% of the world’s major crops, including maize, rice and wheat, will experience reduced or stagnant growth rates as a result of climate change. It is therefore essential that farmers are supported to adopt climate-smart agriculture to sustain their livelihoods.

Our approach

The promise of climate-smart agriculture will only be realised with innovative market-led delivery mechanisms. Support for innovations such as the use of stress-tolerant seeds, weather insurance and new climate finance models capitalises on existing market mechanisms and new ICT solutions. In parallel CTA continues to build an evidence base showing the benefits of adopting CSA at the farm level in ACP countries.

Critical to success will be our continued partnerships on the ground, or with intermediaries (agribusinesses, insurers and weather services), knowledge generators and policy makers.

Impact stories

It is important to learn from farmers the knowledge they have acquired as they contend with the impact of climate change in their daily lives.
Oluyede Ajayi, Sr Programme Coordinator, Ag & Climate Change

Aggregating indigenous and scientific knowledge for better climate adaptation

Key figures

CTA shows the benefits of adopting climate-smart agriculture in ACP countries

80K

smallholders receive weather advice

30K+

smallholders, of which 14k women, covered by weather insurance

22%

yield losses due to climate change in sub-saharan africa by 2050

CTA and climate change

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Weather-index based insurance – a viable option for small Pacific islands?

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In the last two decades, Pacific Island countries (PICs) have suffered billions of dollars in damage and loss due to catastrophic weather events such as cyclones and floods, and other natural disasters including volcanic eruptions. Their predominantly small size and the diverse nature of their agricultural production systems make investments unattractive to private insurers.

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Transforming cassava wastes to wealth as a climate-change mitigation strategy in Nigeria

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Learning how trees on farm can help fulfil national climate change commitments

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Harnessing synergies of crop-livestock integration for climate-smart agriculture

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Policy networks reinforce climate-smart agriculture in Jamaica

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CTA is a joint institution operating under the framework of the Cotonou Agreement between the ACP Group of States (Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific) and the EU Member States (European Union). CTA is funded by the European Union.

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