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adaptation in rural communities. Organic agriculture has additional potential as a mitigation strategy. This text is a short … review article on this topic. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture can build on well-established practice …Organic agriculture as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability is a concrete and promising option for …
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In order to understand the implications of GHG emissions reduction targets in the Brazilian economy it is important to understand the sector composition of these emissions in Brazil. According to the 2010 Second National Communications of Brazil to the UNFCCC, in 2005, the majority of Brazil's...
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The purpose of the paper is to identify how climate change affects how we should approach the process of transforming agricultural systems (including crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) to support global food security and poverty reduction in a sustainable way. We also identify...
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Venus). Both case studies have strong particularities thus involving specific adaptation and mitigation measures to climate …
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a well-functioning international trade system can support the adaptation to climate change-related challenges, trade … can support the adaptation to climate change-related challenges. Hence welfare gains from reforms to trade policies may be …
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will largely shape how and how well farmers mitigate and adapt to climate change. This adaptation and mitigation potential …
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Climate change is the defining development challenge of our time. More than a global environmental issue, climate change is also a threat to poverty reduction and economic growth and may unravel many of the development gains made in recent decades. Latin America and the Caribbean account for a...
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smallholder producers in Kenya. Several practices emerge as triple wins in terms of climate adaptation, GHG mitigation, and …, rural development, and climate change mitigation for generations to come. …
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Climate change adaptation and mitigation need to cut across all poverty reduction efforts, including any post-2015 …
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A strategy of inclusion of adaptation and mitigation expenses in a model of optimal growth under threat of climate … (even to extinction forever) and/or triggers a fundamental change of the economic structure. Mitigation expenses reduce the … long-run probability of a calamity or the speed of convergence to it; adaptation expenses help to improve the standard of …
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