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Negotiating agriculture into the climate change agenda

This brief is a compilation of views from leading experts on the key negotiating outcomes that must be pursued now, in order to effectively put agriculture on the climate change agenda in Copehagen.

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Are farmers in Tanzania still using technologies introduced during the TARPII-SUA programme?: ( F.H. Johnsen;D.L. Mwaseba;F.M. Mombo / Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2009); The objectives of this study are to find evidence to what extent farmers still use the technologies that were introduced during the TARPII-SUA programme in Tanzania, and to identify the farmers’...
A training manual on water management in agriculture in Ethiopia: ( S.B. Awulachew;P. Lemperiere;T. Tulu / International Livestock Research Institute , 2009); This training manual on agricultural water management has been prepared with the aim of providing reference and guidance materials on smallholders' agricultural management, primarily for Ethio...
Towards better agricultural production through an accounting framework for green and blue water: ( T. Sulser;C. Ringler;T. Zhu / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009); Water scarcity is a critical issue for food production in the poor developing countries because agriculture is the primary consumer of the dwindling freshwater around the globe. This paper calls for s...
Value chain analysis: a standard guideline?: ( C. da Silva;H. de Souza Filho / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2007); This paper gives guidelines and presents a methodological strategy for the analysis of agrifood value chains. The guideline aims to provide information on the conceptual fundamentals of chain analyses...
Can user associations improve water management?: ( N. McCarthy;T. Essam / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009); In rural areas of Chile, where water is mostly used as an essential farm input via irrigation canals, Comunidades de Agua (CdA), or water communities, have gained recognition as an alternative to nati...
FAO reporting on global hunger in 2009: ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009); This is the tenth progress report on world hunger since the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS). It highlights that the food crisis has twinned with the economic crisis increasing the number of hungry people...
Business as usual as the international food system adds damage to the climate crisis: ( GRAIN , 2009); This article is about the inability of the global food system to fulfill its most basic function of feeding people while agribusiness corporations that control the food chain are amassing billions of ...
Can Lesotho's households achieve food security by buying food rather than growing it?: ( S.D. Turner / , 2009); Food insecurity remains a major challenge for Lesotho. This report offers a brief review of strategic issues and options in support for food security there. The paper shows that the nature of the chal...
Improving the ability of small-scale fisheries in the developing world: ( L. Evans;N. Andrew / The WorldFish Center , 2009); Diagnosis and adaptive management can help improve the ability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) in the developing world. This paper presents a framework for diagnosis and adaptive management and disc...
Is it feasible to model water quality and quantity management?: ( M., G. Alcoforado de Moraes;X. Cai;C. Ringler / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009); Water management in the Pirapama River Basin in northeastern Brazil is affected by both water quantity and water quality constraints. The region is known for significant sugarcane-based ethanol produc...