Andrea Cattaneo

TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline a set of CSA actions needed from public, private and civil society stakeholders: building evidence; increasing local institutional effectiveness; fostering coherence between climate and agricultural policies; and linking climate and agriculture financing.

TL;DR: A flexible 'cross entropy' (CE) approach to estimating a consistent SAM starting from inconsistent data estimated with error, which represents an efficient information processing rule-using only and all information available.

TL;DR: According to this analysis, these recent developments finally make feasible the end of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, which could result in a 2 to 5% reduction in global carbon emissions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the determinants of farmer adoption of conservation farming practices using panel data from two rounds of the Rural Incomes and Livelihoods Surveys that were implemented in 2004 and 2008.

TL;DR: The Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture (GSCA) as discussed by the authors focused on contributing to economic development, poverty reduction and food security; maintaining and enhancing the productivity and resilience of natural and agricultural ecosystem functions, thus building natural capital; and reducing trade-offs involved in meeting these goals.