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Carbon payment strategies in coffee agroforests shape climate and biodiversity outcomes Open

Emily Pappo, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Damien Beillouin, Rémi Cardinael, Fernando Vieira Cesário , et al. · 2025

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Integrating crop models and machine learning for projecting climate change impacts on crops in data-limited environments Open

Seyyedmajid Alimagham, Marloes P. van Loon, Julián Ramírez-Villegas, Herman N.C. Berghuijs, Todd S. Rosenstock , et al. · 2025

Effects of changing farming practices in African agriculture Open

Todd S. Rosenstock, Peter Steward, Namita Joshi, Christine Lamanna, Nictor Namoi , et al. · 2024

Information on the effects of changing agricultural management on crop and livestock performance is critical for developing evidence-based policies, investments, and programs. Evidence for Resilient Agriculture (ERA) v1.0.1 presents a data…

Secondary data analysis using Evidence-Based Bayesian Networks with an application to investigate the determinants of childhood stunting Open

Barbaros Yet, Elif Öykü Başerdem, Todd S. Rosenstock · 2024

Opportunities to strengthen Africa’s efforts to track national-level climate adaptation Open

Andreea Nowak, Lucy Njuguna, Julián Ramírez-Villegas, Pytrik Reidsma, Krystal Crumpler , et al. · 2024

Tracking progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation requires documentation of countries’ intentions, against which future progress can be measured. The extent to which existing national policy documents provide adequate baselines is un…

Statistical modelling of determinants of child stunting using secondary data and Bayesian networks: a UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Action Against Stunting Hub protocol paper Open

Todd S. Rosenstock, Barbaros Yet · 2024

Introduction Several factors have been implicated in child stunting, but the precise determinants, mechanisms of action and causal pathways remain poorly understood. The objective of this study is to explore causal relationships between th…

Data utilized in African Green Climate Fund Agricultural Adaptation Projects and its availability in selected Decision Support Tools (DSTs) Open

Todd S. Rosenstock, Namita Joshi, Peter Steward, Kristal Jones · 2024

The dataset aims to provide insight into the data needed for developing successful projects for the Green Climate Fund (GCF). It includes information on climate hazards, vulnerability, exposure, and response in 20 accepted agricultural ada…

Agriculture Ontology for Meta-analysis (AOM): Livestock Prototype Open

Todd S. Rosenstock, Peter Steward, Namita Joshi · 2023

An initial version of the Agriculture Ontology for Meta-analysis (AOM) based on Livestock data from Evidence for Resilience Agriculture (v0.0.1beta). This proto-ontology is designed for the annotation of information from peer-reviewed lite…

Leverage points to support Africa’s efforts to track climate adaptation Open

Andreea Nowak, Lucy Njuguna, Julián Ramírez-Villegas, Pytrik Reidsma, Krystal Crumpler , et al. · 2023

Tracking progress on the Global Goal on Adaptation depends on countries’ ability to plan for, track, and report on adaptation efforts. We analyze the readiness of 53 African countries to track adaptation, assessed by the comprehensiveness,…

Blind spots obscure understanding of how forests affect human health Open

Todd S. Rosenstock, Dominic Rowland, Zara Liew, Katie Hickson, Lilly Zeitler , et al. · 2023

Tailored Forecasts Can Predict Extreme Climate Informing Proactive Interventions in East Africa Open

Chris Funk, L. Harrison, Zewdu Segele, Todd S. Rosenstock, Peter Steward , et al. · 2023

This commentary discusses new advances in the predictability of east African rains and highlights the potential for improved early warning systems (EWS), humanitarian relief efforts, and agricultural decision‐making. Following an unprecede…

Priority areas for investment in more sustainable and climate-resilient livestock systems Open

Camila Bonilla, Peter Steward, Todd S. Rosenstock, Philip K. Thornton, Jacobo Arango , et al. · 2023

Tailored forecasts can predict extreme climate informing proactive interventions in East Africa Open

Chris Funk, L. Harrison, Zewdu Segele, Todd S. Rosenstock, peter steward , et al. · 2023

This commentary discusses new advances in the predictability of east African rains and highlights the potential for improved early warning systems (EWS), humanitarian relief efforts, and agricultural decision-making. Following an unprecede…

Poverty dynamics and the determining factors among East African smallholder farmers Open

James Hammond, Tim Pagella, Mark E. Caulfield, Simon Fraval, Nils Teufel , et al. · 2023

Transforming Food Systems Under Climate Change through Innovation Open

Bruce Campbell, Vanessa Meadu, Ana María Loboguerrero, Andreea Nowak, Todd S. Rosenstock , et al. · 2023

Our food systems have performed well in the past, but they are failing us in the face of climate change and other challenges. This book tells the story of why food system transformation is needed, how it can be achieved and how research ca…

Ensuring Zero Agricultural Land Expansion into High-Carbon Ecosystems Open

Todd S. Rosenstock, Ciniro Costa, Katherine M. Nelson, Kristell Hergoualc’h, Rosa María Román-Cuesta · 2023

Relative to agricultural systems, high-carbon ecosystems – such as forests, peatlands, and mangroves – store large amounts of carbon in relatively small areas. Agricultural expansion often comes at the expense of high-carbon ecosystems, co…

Evidence supports the potential for climate-smart agriculture in Tanzania Open

Kristal Jones, Andreea Nowak, Erika Berglund, Willow Grinnell, Emmanuel A. Temu , et al. · 2022

National governments across Sub-Saharan Africa include climate-smart agriculture (CSA)—context-specific interventions that support resilience, productivity, and climate mitigation—in plans, policies, and strategies to jointly address clima…

Spatial phase synchronisation of pistachio alternate bearing: Common-noise-induced synchronisation of coupled chaotic oscillators Open

Kenshi Sakai, Patrick H. Brown, Todd S. Rosenstock, Shrinivasa K. Upadhyaya, Alan Hastings · 2022

The collective dynamics of chaotic oscillators has drawn considerable attention in numerous fields, including agriculture and forestry. The alternate bearing of tree crops is a phenomenon in which a year of heavy yield is followed by a yea…

Transforming food systems with trees and forests Open

Amy Ickowitz, Stepha McMullin, Todd S. Rosenstock, Ian K. Dawson, Dominic Rowland , et al. · 2022

The global food system is failing to deliver sufficient and nutritious food to all, while damaging the earth and unsustainably drawing down its resources. We argue that trees and forests are essential to solving these challenges. We outlin…

Research priorities for global food security under extreme events Open

Zia Mehrabi, Ruth Delzeit, Adriana Ignaciuk, Christian Levers, Ginni Braich , et al. · 2022

Extreme events, such as those caused by climate change, economic or geopolitical shocks, and pest or disease epidemics, threaten global food security. The complexity of causation, as well as the myriad ways that an event, or a sequence of …

A meta-analysis of the adoption of agricultural technology in Sub-Saharan Africa Open

Aslıhan Arslan, Kristin Floress, Christine Lamanna, Leslie Lipper, Todd S. Rosenstock · 2022

Both global poverty and hunger have increased in recent years, endangering progress towards accomplishing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2. The regression has been most pronounced in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Meeting the SDG ta…

How profitable is switchgrass in Illinois, USA? An economic definition of marginal land Open

Nictor Namoi, David W. Archer, Todd S. Rosenstock, Chunhwa Jang, Cheng‐Hsien Lin , et al. · 2022

Background Decisions regarding the conversion of land from an existing crop to bioenergy crops are critical for the sustainable production of both food and fuels. This study seeks to establish criteria for delineating land as “economically…

Adaptation Indicators in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) of African countries: A reference system to improve adaptation measurement and tracking Open

Andreea Nowak, Lucy Njuguna, Pedro Zorrilla‐Miras, María José Sanz, Elena López‐Gunn , et al. · 2022

Data presented in this document are the result of a mapping and analysis of adaptation indicators included in national planning-oriented adaptation instruments, namely Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plan…

Replication Data for: Agronomic gain: Definition, approach, and application Open

Kazuki Saito, Johan Six, Shota Komatsu, Sieglinde S. Snapp, Todd S. Rosenstock , et al. · 2022

Meeting future global staple crop demand requires continual productivity improvement. Many performance indicators have been proposed to track and measure the increase in productivity while minimizing environmental degradation. However, the…

Smallholder Poverty Dynamics in East Africa: Intensification and Off-Farm Incomes Open

James Hammond, Tim Pagella, Mark E. Caulfield, Simon Fraval, Nils Teufel , et al. · 2022

Limitations of using simple indicators for evaluating agricultural emission reductions at farm level — evidence from Kenyan smallholder dairy production Open

Eike Luedeling, Cory Whitney, Andreas Wilkes, Ermias Aynekulu, Todd S. Rosenstock · 2022

National-scale carbon footprints of livestock production are commonly computed from a set of production system characteristics that serve as inputs for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission models. We evaluated the feasibility of using such equati…

Integrating evidence of potential impacts of climate-smart agriculture in Tanzania. Open

Kristal Jones, Andreea Nowak, Erika Berglund, Willow Grinnell, Emmanuel Temu , et al. · 2021

Making trees count: Measurement and reporting of agroforestry under the UNFCCC Open

Todd S. Rosenstock, Andreas Wilkes, Courtney Jallo, Nictor Namoi, Medha Bulusu , et al. · 2021

This dataset categorizes the ambition and commitments to use agroforestry in the 1st Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Communications, and other climate policies. The dataset was derived from key word searches and evalua…

Spatial Phase Synchronisation of Pistachio Alternate Bearing Open

Kenshi Sakai, Patrick H. Brown, Todd S. Rosenstock, Shrinivasa K. Upadhyaya, Alan Hastings · 2021

Nonlinear physics and agroecosystems can be of great relevance in the synchronisations of chaotic oscillators. The endogenous dynamics of the seed production of perennial plant species which include alternate bearing and masting, portray t…

Projection of Benefits for the Livestock, Climate and System Resilience (LCSR) One CGIAR global initiative Open

Todd S. Rosenstock, Julián Ramírez-Villegas, Camila Bonilla, Fiona Flintan, Mounir Louhaichi , et al. · 2021

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