NEGOTIATIONS
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| Partner
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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) |
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http://www.icrisat.org/ |
| Description
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The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non-profit and non-political research organization that carries out innovative agricultural research and capacity building for sustainable development with a wide array of partners across the globe. ICRISAT's mission is to help empower 600 million poor people to overcome hunger, poverty and a degraded environment in the dry tropics through better agriculture. ICRISAT belongs to the Alliance of Future Harvest Centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). |
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Mitigating the impact of current and future climate-induced production risk and improving the livelihood resilience of farming communities in the semi-arid tropic of Africa and Asia |
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Peter John Macleod Cooper |
| Principal Scientist, Eastern and Southern Africa |
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| Regional focus
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Africa and the Arab States
Asia and the Pacific
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| Sector
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Education and training
Food security, agriculture, forestry and fisheries
Terrestrial ecosystems
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| Adaptation delivery activity
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Capacity building
Climate-resilient development planning
Communications and awareness-raising
Disaster risk reduction
Pilot adaptation programmes/projects
Training
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| NWP work area
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Adaptation planning and practices
Economic diversification
Methods and tools
Research
Socio-economic information
Technologies for adaptation
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| Climate hazards
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Drought
Flood
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| Operational scale
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Global
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Organizations, institutions and private sector companies at all levels and in a wide range of sectors can become engaged with the NWP by becoming a partner and making Action Pledges. Information about how organizations can become engaged with work on adaptation under the NWP can be found here.
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