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Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
Elsevier, 2011This journal article highlights that agriculture and food security are key sectors for intervention under climate change.DocumentTropical fruit tree species and climate change
Bioversity International, 2012The study focuses on the knowledge which could help overcome threats to agriculture and food security, exploring new ways of helping vulnerable rural communities adjust to global changes in climate. Its particular focus is tropical fruit.DocumentFood security and food production systems
Cambridge University, 2014This chapter highlights that the effects of climate change on crop and terrestrial food production are evident in several regions of the world and are affecting the abundance and distribution of harvested aquatic species, both freshwater and marine, and aquaculture production systems.DocumentThe relevance of ‘resilience’?
Overseas Development Institute, 2012This policy brief presents the understanding gained in the course of a research programme between 2011-2013. It argues that for the resilience discourse to make a continued contribution to international aid, and in particular for the role of humanitarian action, a change in its direction is now needed. Key messages include:DocumentMixing integrated coastal zone management and green growth in Colombia. A recipe for resilient coastal cities?
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, 2013Nearly twelve percent of Colombia´s population lives in five coastal cities with more than 170000 inhabitants.DocumentIPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Chapter 8: Urban Areas
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2013This chapter of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report focus on climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in urban areas.DocumentAdaptation to climate change: From resilience to transformation
Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2011The book offers a critique of the dominant trends in thinking about adaptation and climate change, particularly social dimensions. It presents a framework for making sense of choices around resilience (stability), transition (incremental social change and the exercising of existing rights) and transformation (new rights claims and changes in political regimes).DocumentA role for innovation prizes to support adaptation to climate change?
Ideas to Impact, 2015The aim of this paper is to examine the role of innovation prizes in supporting adaptation to climate change in the context of development, in view of two parallel trends: First, a growing interest in applying innovation prizes to international development, and second, the increasing focus on ensuring that adaptation funding and implementation are achieving the goals of supporting the poorest aDocumentValuing variability: new perspectives on climate resilient drylands development
2015This book is a challenge to those who see the drylands as naturally vulnerable to food insecurity and poverty. It argues that improving agricultural productivity in dryland environments is possible by working with climatic uncertainty rather than seeking to control it – a view that runs contrary to decade of development practice in arid and semi-arid lands.