ABSTRACT
This chapter relays findings from the Climate Learning for African Agriculture (CLAA) project to show the current obstacles to African research and advisory services in realising this potential. These obstacles include: the disjuncture throughout Africa between climate policies on the one hand and agricultural policies on the other; the limited learning resulting from localised projects; and the generic resource constraints experienced by government services. The issue of climate change and African agriculture cannot be left entirely too African farmers' undoubted skills in risk management. Climate changes in the next few decades will make agriculture in many places in Africa completely unlike anything Africa's farmers, even their great-grandparents, have experienced. In the CLAA project founds very few concrete examples of mitigation activities in four country case studies, and also found that stakeholders in agricultural research and advisory services were relatively unlikely to use either the climate compatible development (CCD) or climate smart agriculture (CSA) labels.
