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Farmers’ Knowledge and Climate Change Adaptation: Insights from Policy Processes in Kenya ...
A. Newsham / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011
Policy Brief 42 One major policy challenge for the agricultural sector is to make sure that lessons from farmers’ knowledge and experience are informing emerging climate change policy processes. This briefing paper reports...
Food Aid and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia
S. Gebreselassie / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2006
By Samuel Gebreselassie January 2006 Ethiopia has been structurally in food deficit since at least 1980. Today, Ethiopia is the world’s most food aid dependent country. The country received 795 thousand metric tonnes...
micle
micle is a research project focused on investigating the social-ecological conditions under which population movements take place.
Assessment of the most important environmental goals and objectives
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
The fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) analyses the state, trends, outlook and responses to environmental change. It assesses progress towards meeting internationally agreed goals and identifies gaps in their achievement. ...
Evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and policy driven options to address the emerging challenges
M. H. Glantz; R. Gommes; S. Ramasamy / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
This book presents historical evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and the current challenges climate change poses on world food security. It argues that changing climatic conditions are projected to affect food ...
Adapting to climate change and increasing food production through climate smart agriculture
C. Pye-Smith / Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2011
This paper places agriculture at the heart of climate change policy stating that climate change is already changing the face of farming. Increases in temperature, changing patterns of rainfall, more extreme droughts and floods, and th...
Anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture and the implications for local and national food security
H. Turral; J. Burke; J. M. Faurès / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
This report summarises current knowledge of the anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture. It examines the implications for local and national food security and the methods and approaches for assessin...
Summary of the findings of the STEPS maize project in Kenya
S. Brooks; J. Thompson; H. Odame / STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2009
Maize is a socially, politically and economically staple crop in Kenya. This paper summarises the findings of the STEPS Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya project, which utilised maize as a window through which to expl...
Contextualising and analysing agriculture in international climate negotiations
B. Campbell; W. Mann; R. Meléndez-Ortiz / Meridian Institute, 2011
This scoping report provides context and analysis for addressing agriculture in international climate negotiations with the aim of informing climate negotiators and other stakeholders of different options and unpacking issues of inter...
Strategy outlining how social protection can work in the best possible way
World Bank, 2012
This paper is an overview of the World Bank’s strategy on social protection and labour. It argues that social protection and labour systems, programmes and policies buffer individuals from shocks and equip them to improve their ...
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Assessment of the most important environmental goals and objectives
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
The fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) analyses the state, trends, outlook and responses to environmental change. It assesses progress towards meeting internationally agreed goals and identifies gaps in their achievement. ...
Evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and policy driven options to address the emerging challenges
M. H. Glantz; R. Gommes; S. Ramasamy / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
This book presents historical evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and the current challenges climate change poses on world food security. It argues that changing climatic conditions are projected to affect food ...
Adapting to climate change and increasing food production through climate smart agriculture
C. Pye-Smith / Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2011
This paper places agriculture at the heart of climate change policy stating that climate change is already changing the face of farming. Increases in temperature, changing patterns of rainfall, more extreme droughts and floods, and th...
Anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture and the implications for local and national food security
H. Turral; J. Burke; J. M. Faurès / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
This report summarises current knowledge of the anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture. It examines the implications for local and national food security and the methods and approaches for assessin...
Summary of the findings of the STEPS maize project in Kenya
S. Brooks; J. Thompson; H. Odame / STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2009
Maize is a socially, politically and economically staple crop in Kenya. This paper summarises the findings of the STEPS Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya project, which utilised maize as a window through which to expl...
Contextualising and analysing agriculture in international climate negotiations
B. Campbell; W. Mann; R. Meléndez-Ortiz / Meridian Institute, 2011
This scoping report provides context and analysis for addressing agriculture in international climate negotiations with the aim of informing climate negotiators and other stakeholders of different options and unpacking issues of inter...
Strategy outlining how social protection can work in the best possible way
World Bank, 2012
This paper is an overview of the World Bank’s strategy on social protection and labour. It argues that social protection and labour systems, programmes and policies buffer individuals from shocks and equip them to improve their ...
Practical and evidence-based policy actions to achieve food security in the context of climate change
J. Beddington (ed); M. Asaduzzaman (ed); M. Clark (ed) / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change. It reasons that w...
Analysing the adaptive capacity of climate change interventions in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique
A. Ospina; R. Heeks / Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stag...
Climate Change and its impact on the livelihood of the Aruban people
Kevin de Cuba / Center for International Environmental Law, 2007
Despite its relatively high living standard and fairly developed economy, Aruba's small size and dense population nevertheless place the island at significant risk to the impacts of climate change. This report outlines the challenges ...
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Integrated Development Society
Integrated Development Society (IDS) Nepal is a non-for-profit, non-government development organisation working in the field of sustainable development, policy research and knowledge mobilisation.
Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
micle
micle is a research project focused on investigating the social-ecological conditions under which population movements take place.
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