<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Editorial for the Thematic Series in Agriculture &amp; Food Security: Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in West Africa: learning from the ground AR4D experiences</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">J</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Bayala</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">R B</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Zougmore</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S D</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Dayamba</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">A</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Olivier</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>This Thematic Series on “Climate-Smart Agriculture&#13;
Technologies in West Africa: learning from the ground&#13;
AR4D experiences” contains seven papers presented by&#13;
researchers from four West African countries based on&#13;
participatory action research conducted since 2012 in&#13;
the region. These research activities were funded by the&#13;
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture&#13;
and Food Security (CCAFS) through a project titled&#13;
“Developing community-based climate-smart agriculture&#13;
through participatory action research in CCAFS benchmark&#13;
sites in West Africa” (see [1]). This research action&#13;
under the scientific lead of the World Agroforestry Centre&#13;
(ICRAF) aimed to test and validate, in partnership&#13;
with rural communities and other stakeholders, scalable&#13;
climate-smart village models for agricultural development&#13;
that integrate a range of innovative agricultural risk&#13;
management strategies. The project also aimed to enable&#13;
farmers, developers, managers and policy makers for the&#13;
agriculture sector to develop cost-effective climate-smart&#13;
agriculture (CSA) options that support local sustainable&#13;
development and enhance livelihood resilience. It is&#13;
therefore a response to the challenges (degraded lands,&#13;
low crop productivity, high level of poverty for rural people,&#13;
etc.) faced to satisfy the food needs of an increasing&#13;
population in the face of a changing climate...</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Agriculture</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Climate Resilient Technologies</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Climate Change</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Food Security</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">West Africa</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2017-09-01</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>BioMed Central</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>