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Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food security and climate change. Agriculture plays a … significant role in both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing issue for agriculture and food security in … the next decades. At the same time, agriculture is part of the solution in mitigating climate change: by both reducing and …
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agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity). The paper analyses … agriculture and better human development outcomes. Broadly, it examines the impact of climate change on rural livelihoods …, agriculture, food security. It discusses the options for adaptation and mitigation and requirements for implementation at local …
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sustainability and environmental sustainability and suggests desirable changes. The focus is on reduction in CO2 emissions. [WORKING …
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The main objectives of this seminar has been to contribute to the understanding of the development processes and problems related to water security and climate change; to focus on studies relating to this problem of the by-passed section and regions; and to provide a forum for dialogue on the...
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In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be done about it. Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human development, the Report argues that the option to grow now, clean up later no longer exists for...
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This paper assesses the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture covering a cross section of crops, seasons and …
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Climate change impact studies on agriculture can be broadly divided into those that employ agro-economic approaches and … Indian agriculture. Using panel data over a twenty year period and on 271 districts, we estimate the impact of climate change …
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Despite the major uncertainties mentioned at the beginning that afflict both dimensions of climate change, this analysis has demonstrated a clear trend: the regulatory-market economy dimension of climate change will affect most sectors much earlier than the environmental-climatic dimension....
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Climate change is one of the most important issues of the next decades and has the potential to severely impact societies, economies and human wellbeing.
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