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by Stefanie Tye and Delfina Grinspan - October 2020This practice note examines how climate change is threatening coffee-growing regions in Costa Rica, specifically the Coto Brus region.
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by Meredith T. Niles, Tyler Ferdinand, Richard Choularton and Rebecca Carter - October 2020Climate change is already affecting crop production, and in some cases is undermining the viability of current crop systems. The paper explains why transformative adaptation is needed in cropping systems, how seeds systems play a key role in these systemic shifts, and what changes are needed in crop research and development to enable climate-resilient transformations.
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by Laurie Ashley, Rebecca Carter, Tyler Ferdinand, Richard Choularton, Nambi Appadurai, Namrata Ginoya and Parvathi Preethan - October 2020As climate change increasingly affects agriculture around the world, reliable, timely, and targeted information about weather and climate conditions is becoming an ever more urgent requirement for adaptation decision-making. This paper considers how transformative adaptation – long-term, systemic change to fundamental aspects of systems in response to or anticipation of severe climate change impacts - could be accelerated by enhancing climate services and how they are applied.
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by Nicholas Bianco, Franz Litz, Devashree Saha, Tyler Clevenger and Dan Lashof - October 2020Recognizing that addressing climate change in the U.S. will require action at all levels of government, WRI convened thought leaders among current and former U.S. federal, state, and local government officials in a dialogue to explore these topics. This paper sets out the context and findings of the dialogue discussions, and proposes a working federalism framework to delineate roles within a future federal climate policy.