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Technology options for feeding 10 billion people : Plant breeding and innovative agriculture

Meyer, Rolf; Ratinger, Tomas; Voss-Fels, Kai Peter - ITAS, Karlsruhe, Germany; Technology Centre ASCR, … - 2013

conditions. The study addresses agriculture in developing countries as well as in industrialized countries (Europe), small …

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Assessing the risk of farmland abandonment in the EU

JM Terres; L Nisini; E Anguiano - Institute for Environment and Sustainability - 2013

An expert panel of 12 European scientists in fields related to land abandonment (bio-physical / land suitability, farm structure, farm economics, land market, regional development, socio and economic factors in rural areas) and representative for the EU27 Member States were tasked to identify...

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Adaptation to Climate Change in the Agricultural Sector

Ana Iglesias, Keesje Avis (contributor) - AEA Energy & Environment; Universidad de Politécnica … - 2007

development of agriculture, both globally and within the EU. Although agriculture is a complex and highly evolved sector, it is …

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Impacts of Climate Change on European Forests and Options for Adaptation

Marcus Lindner, Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo (contributor) - European Forest Institute (EFI); University of Natural …; … - 2008

Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission as an initial exploration of this complex …

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Evaluation of the livestock sector's contribution to the EU greenhouse gas emissions (GGELS)

Adrian Leip; Franz Weiss; Tom Wassenaar - Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES); … - 2010

The FAO report "Livestock long shadow: environmental issues and options" (2006) claims that livestock production is a major contributor to the world's environmental problems, contributing about 18% to global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, although highly variable across the world....

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Assessing Agriculture Vulnerabilities for the design of Effective Measures for Adaption to Climate Change (AVEMAC Project)

M. Donatelli; G. Duveiller; D. Fumagalli - 2012

This report presents the final results of the study named AVEMAC (Assessing Agriculture Vulnerabilities for the design … been the lack of information on vulnerabilities, risks, and needs for the adaptation of European agriculture under a … changing climate in the next decades. Directorate0General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) therefore asked the …