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a modest first step in understanding the climate change agenda in one particular country, namely Zambia. The paper … in Zambia, and in developing the institutional framework for disaster management and climate change. However, the climate … change agenda in Zambia is not only a donor construction: Although the issue is not high on the political agenda, there are …
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periods of drought lead to significant economic losses in agriculture, transport, energy, water management, health and …
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Nowadays, agriculture is facing a special challenge - to produce more food for a growing population, while reducing … greenhouse gas emissions caused by food production. This piece of research is focused on the impact of agriculture on climate … change, starting from the assumption that agriculture is affected by climate variability, but also it contributes to it by …
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policies. After the 2030s, the effects of climate change are likely to be significant, with agriculture and food production …
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This note synthesises the available literature examining the impact of agricultural support on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as its impact on water, biodiversity, and land. In keeping with the Secretariat's impartiality, the note reports the findings as they appear in the literature....
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This paper examines the likely impact on agriculture of the climate change which has already taken place between 1960 …, and carbon dioxide response functions are used to calculate the impacts on agriculture. Temperature and precipitation … overall growth of agriculture has been small, contributing between 2.6% and 5.4% of overall growth. This effect has been …
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