The climate crisis has driven many societies into chaos and other communities into stagnation. In Tanzania, East Africa, the majority of the population is comprised of about 80% smallholder farmers …
How to talk about food in En-ROADS
En-ROADS is great for workshops and role-playing games to enable people to explore climate solutions from changes in our energy choices to adoption of new technologies in carbon removal. Our food …
Agritopia – the Latest Interactive Exercise from Climate Interactive
CI’s Agriculture Team, in cooperation with Rebecca Niles of ReThink Health, and our funders and partners at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, are proud to release our newest role-playing game. …
Building Systems Thinking Capacity in Africa
Climate Interactive's Agriculture team recently held a successful workshop on systems thinking and system dynamics at the campus of our partner Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P). Over 30 …
Milestone: Water in the Agriculture and Land Policy Simulator
We are happy to report progress in our work on agriculture in Africa. The Agriculture and Land Policy Simulator (ALPS) model now includes an explicit treatment of water: rainfall, irrigation, water …
Milestone: Forestry and Soil Carbon and the Agriculture and Land Policy Simulator
Climate Interactive, working with our partners at University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) in Morocco, has completed the second major model release for our Climate Smart Agriculture in Africa …
Modeling Soil Carbon and Agriculture
Sometimes the very early stages of modeling can reveal important lessons. Validation and data are important for building a policy-relevant model, but setting up the basic physics of a problem and …
Insights from the Climate-Smart Agriculture Policy Simulator
A new tool created for Climate Interactive's Climate-Smart Agriculture project has shown some of the ways agriculture will have to transform in the face of climate change. We have found that …
Milestone: Land Use in the Climate and Agriculture Model
Climate Interactive, working with our partners at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco, has completed the first major version of our Climate and Agriculture Policy Simulator. Building …
The Growing Importance of Agriculture in Climate Change
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture are an important contributor to climate change, especially when emissions from agriculture's impact on land-use changes are included. …
How Climate Interactive Can Contribute to Climate-Smart Agriculture Policymaking
The world has arrived at a special moment: the importance of agriculture in Africa is being realized and intersecting with opportunities for policymaking. Climate Interactive is partnering …
Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa Project Presented at COP22
As we gather at COP 22 in Marrakesh there are many reasons why attention is focused on African Agriculture – and why Climate Interactive is engaging to help diffuse Climate-Smart Agriculture policies. …