Soil and land management
- Contributory chapter on agriculture for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- P. Smith; Z. Martino; D. Cai / Cambridge University, 2007
- This contributory chapter of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) outlines the status of climate change mitigation in agriculture and its implications on development...
- Report on the necessity of a holistic framework for agricultural climate change adaptation
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
- Climate change poses severe threats on agriculture. Even though some countries may experience beneficial change to agricultural gross domestic product (GDP), the majority, particularly developing countries, will experience significant...
- Food crisis and the global land grab
- News and commentary on land grabbing
- Is large-scale private land acquisition beneficial to Africa?
- L. Cotula; S. Vermeulan; R. Leonard / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
- Over 2008 large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia have increased. This report discusses key trends and drivers in land acquisitions, the contractual arrangements underpinning them...
- Land acquisition: is there a code of conduct?
- J. von Braun (ed); R. Meinzen-Dick (ed) / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
- One of the effects of the food price crisis on the world food system is the increasing acquisition of farmland in developing countries by other countries seeking to ensure their food supplies. This brief analyses the pros a...
- Is agroforestry a solution to climate change?
- World Agroforestry Centre, 2009
- This policy brief analyses agroforestry as a tool for improving livelihood in Tanzania and tackling emerging local and global challenges. The paper argues that agroforestry creates a web of resilient land use practices that mitigate a...
- More rice but less land: which way for Africa?
- GRAIN, 2009
- In the wake of the 2008 global food crisis, African capitals have been buzzing with renewed talk of the need for food self-sufficiency, and rice is often at the top of government agendas. Although everyone agrees on the need to increa...
- How to develop and promote food diversification and nutrition in Malawi
- S. Nordin / Food & Nutrition Security and Permaculture in Malawi, 2005
- Tackling food insecurity in Malawi has moved away from emergency aid towards relief and recovery, with government policy looking at food diversification and nutrition. Produced following a nine-month study conducted in Malawi througho...
- Climate change and african agriculture: a Ricardian analysis
- P. Kurukulasuriya; R. Mendelsohn / African Association of Agricultural Economists, 2008
- This paper examines the impact of climate change on cropland in Africa using a ricardian cross-sectional approach. Relying on farm data from an 11-country survey of over 9500 farmers, the study analyses the impact of climate and other...
- Can urban agriculture generate adequate livelihoods and food security?
- M. Redwood (ed) / International Development Research Centre, 2009
- This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the b...
- Contributory chapter on agriculture for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- P. Smith; Z. Martino; D. Cai / Cambridge University, 2007
- This contributory chapter of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) outlines the status of climate change mitigation in agriculture and its implications on development...
- Report on the necessity of a holistic framework for agricultural climate change adaptation
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
- Climate change poses severe threats on agriculture. Even though some countries may experience beneficial change to agricultural gross domestic product (GDP), the majority, particularly developing countries, will experience significant...
- Is large-scale private land acquisition beneficial to Africa?
- L. Cotula; S. Vermeulan; R. Leonard / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
- Over 2008 large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia have increased. This report discusses key trends and drivers in land acquisitions, the contractual arrangements underpinning them...
- Land acquisition: is there a code of conduct?
- J. von Braun (ed); R. Meinzen-Dick (ed) / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
- One of the effects of the food price crisis on the world food system is the increasing acquisition of farmland in developing countries by other countries seeking to ensure their food supplies. This brief analyses the pros a...
- Is agroforestry a solution to climate change?
- World Agroforestry Centre, 2009
- This policy brief analyses agroforestry as a tool for improving livelihood in Tanzania and tackling emerging local and global challenges. The paper argues that agroforestry creates a web of resilient land use practices that mitigate a...
- More rice but less land: which way for Africa?
- GRAIN, 2009
- In the wake of the 2008 global food crisis, African capitals have been buzzing with renewed talk of the need for food self-sufficiency, and rice is often at the top of government agendas. Although everyone agrees on the need to increa...
- How to develop and promote food diversification and nutrition in Malawi
- S. Nordin / Food & Nutrition Security and Permaculture in Malawi, 2005
- Tackling food insecurity in Malawi has moved away from emergency aid towards relief and recovery, with government policy looking at food diversification and nutrition. Produced following a nine-month study conducted in Malawi througho...
- Climate change and african agriculture: a Ricardian analysis
- P. Kurukulasuriya; R. Mendelsohn / African Association of Agricultural Economists, 2008
- This paper examines the impact of climate change on cropland in Africa using a ricardian cross-sectional approach. Relying on farm data from an 11-country survey of over 9500 farmers, the study analyses the impact of climate and other...
- Can urban agriculture generate adequate livelihoods and food security?
- M. Redwood (ed) / International Development Research Centre, 2009
- This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the b...
- Is integrated natural resource management a solution?
- R. Thomas; F. Turkelboom; R. La Rovere / International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, 2008
- Using the Khanasser Valley in Syria as an example, this paper looks at Integrated Natural Resource management (INRM) as an approach to tackle land degradation. The authors argue that INRM is a better approach because of its comprehens...
- Food crisis and the global land grab
- News and commentary on land grabbing
- The Terrestrial Carbon Group (n/a)
- The Terrestrial Carbon Group develops policy recommendations to unlock the potential of terrestrial carbon. It is an international group of specialists from science, economics, and public policy with expertise in land management, climate change, and markets. The objective of the group is for terrestrial carbon to be effectively included in the international response to climate change.
- Global Mechanism
- The Global Mechanism is subsidiary body of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), specialising in upscaling finance for sustainable land management
