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Technologies for climate change adaptation: agriculture sector
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2011The agriculture sector faces the challenge of providing adequate food to a growing world population. There is limited scope to expand arable land, and unpredictable weather, floods, and other disastrous events make food production even more challenging. This guidebook provides information on 22 technologies and options for adapting to climate change in the agriculture sector.DocumentThe future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability
Foresight UK, 2011The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size will increase and competition for land, water and energy will intensify, while the effects of climate change will become increasingly apparent. Over this period, globalisation will continue, exposing the food system to novel economic and political pressures.DocumentTrends in sustainable development
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2008This report highlights key developments and recent sustainability trends in agriculture, rural development, land, desertification and drought, five of the six themes being considered by the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) at its 16th and 17th sessions (2008-2009).DocumentAgri-food system dynamics: pathways to sustainability in an era of uncertainty
STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2007This document examines the key issues surrounding agri-food system dynamics and sustainability.DocumentReforestation and control of landslides in Macacos Hill, a slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
South South North, 2006The focus of the project is on increasing the resistance of the physical environment to landslide activity; and building capacity of the community to decrease their vulnerability to landslides when they do occur. Project activities will include: 1. Identifying critical points of erosion and deforestation in Macacos Hill;DocumentWater demand initiative - WaDImena
International Development Research Centre, 2000With the lowest volume of annual renewable water resources and of water resources per capita, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the most water-scarce region in the world.DocumentMarkets for ecosystem services: a potential tool for multilateral environmental agreements
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2006This paper discusses markets for ecosystem services (MES), which is an alternative approach for dealing with the way ecosystem services are used.DocumentOrganic agriculture and rural poverty alleviation: potential and best practices in Asia
Poverty and Development Division, UNESCAP, 2002This document studies the rapidly developing organic farming sector in Asia. It looks at concepts and practices, export potential, market developments and, first and foremost, success cases where small and marginal farmers in the rural areas were able to increase their livelihood through organic agriculture.DocumentPoverty is not a number, the environment is not a butterfly
WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2003This paper looks at the current treatment of rural poverty and the environment, highlighting why an enduring integration of poverty and the environment has proven difficult in practice.