Ethiopia is known for having a high diversity of durum wheat landraces. Most farmers in East Shewa’a have been replacing their landraces with modern varieties. These uniformly performing varieties require significant amount of external inputs and have less genetic variability and adaptive capacit...
An analysis of the effects of climate change on 22 critical agricultural commodities and three important natural resources in the developing world reveals a number of cross-cutting themes: The world’s agricultural systems face an uphill struggle in feeding a projected nine to ten billion people b...
Thornton, Philip K.
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[Recalibrating Food Production in the Developing World: Global Warming Will Change More Than Just the Climate]
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Recalibrating Food Production in the Developing World: Global Warming Will Change More Than Just the Climate
There are several complex and interrelated challenges and barriers to achieving global food and nutrition security in an increasingly variable climate. Without urgent action for mitigation and adaptation, the world faces more loss and damage and this will further threaten the productive capacity ...
Deering, Karl
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[Seis temas de cara al cambio climático global y la seguridad alimentaria]
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[Stepping up to the challenge - Six issues facing global climate change and food security]
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Stepping up to the challenge - Six issues facing global climate change and food security
Since cyclones Sidr (2007) and Aila (2009), communities in southern Bangladesh have increasingly
needed to protect their homes and livelihoods from destructive natural disasters. WorldFish
embarked on a climate-resilient housing project in 2013, building a prototype climate-smart house
that is re...
WorldFish
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[Climate-smart house: Housing that is
cyclone resistant and food, energy and
water efficient in Bangladesh]
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Climate-smart house: Housing that is
cyclone resistant and food, energy and
water efficient in Bangladesh
Suspending horticulture in sacks above the ground can result in higher levels of productivity for
vegetables when the challenges of unfertile or saline soil, flooding, waterlogging, and land and
water constraints are regularly encountered.
Previously used feed and fertilizer sacks are filled with...
Suspending horticulture activities above the ground can result in high production of vegetables
when the challenges of unfertile or saline soil, flooding, waterlogging, and land and water
constraints are encountered.
A vertical tower is a cylindrical structure made from bamboo, live wood, soil, c...
This briefing note offers an overview of what the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR5 has to say on the impacts of climate change on food and farming – particularly the food and farming of the half a billion small-scale croppers, livestock kee...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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[Climate change, food security and small-scale producers: Analysis of findings of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)]
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Climate change, food security and small-scale producers: Analysis of findings of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The aim of the CCAFS Climate Change and Social Learning (CCSL) Initiative is to better understand and tap the potential of social learning for research on climate change, agriculture and food security. In June 2013, the CCSL “Plan-and- Writeshop” reviewed the prior 18 months of activities and pro...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[CCAFS Climate Change and Social Learning: Phase 2 concept note]
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CCAFS Climate Change and Social Learning: Phase 2 concept note
Analysis of agriculture in countries’ climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies finds: Most Parties to the UNFCCC include agriculture in their mitigation targets (80%) and adaptation strategies (64%); Non-annex 1 Parties note the need for international financial support to implement the...
Richards, Meryl
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Gregersen L
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Kuntze, V.
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Madsen S
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Oldvig MB
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Vasileiou, Ioannis
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[Agriculture's prominence in the INDCs]
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Agriculture's prominence in the INDCs
International Water Management Institute
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[Developing pathways to climate resilience through the sustainable management of water, land and ecosystems]
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Developing pathways to climate resilience through the sustainable management of water, land and ecosystems