This article by the CGIAR’s Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme, discusses a new paper that evaluates the impact of investments in agricultural research capacity and research and development (R&D) on adaptation and mitigation. It argues that when it comes to improving the resilience of crops to climate change, local innovation needs to go hand in hand with more external funding aimed at improving agricultural research capacity.
The article discussed, Global assessment of technological innovation for climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing world quantifies the state of play in four areas of research and development (R&D) considered critical to agriculture under climate change: soil management, information and communication technologies (ICT), renewable energy, and biotechnology.
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