Climate change, disaster risk reduction & desertification

Environment and ecosystem management are key to ensuring urban and rural development and progress towards the achievement of the MDGs. Poor communities directly depend on natural resources for their livelihood and are the most vulnerable to a degraded environment, natural disasters and are the first to suffer from polluted air, water and soil. Sound natural resource use is at the core of effective strategies to strengthen resilience to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Adaptation - Climate Change - Clean energy technology - Climate finance - Climate smart agriculture - Desertification/land degradation - Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) - Drought - Flood prevention/control - Mitigation

ROSA Newsletter n°41 - EN

Moderating team ROSA uploaded a new Document | 26 February 2013

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Views on recent news: Climate change, agriculture and food security: Neither ambition nor progress in Doha. How can we move forward to an ambitious round of negotiations ? The UN Climate Change Conference in Doha concluded in December 2012 with a new agreement called the “Doha Climate Gateway”...

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ROSA Newsletter n°41 - FR

Moderating team ROSA uploaded a new Document | 26 February 2013

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Points de vue sur l’actualité : Changement climatique, agriculture et sécurité alimentaire : Pas d’ambition ni de progrès à Doha. Pour un cycle ambitieux de négociations ? La Conférence des Nations Unies sur le changement climatique à Doha s’est clôturée en décembre 2012 avec un nouvel accord...

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The changing climate for food and agriculture: A literature review

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 25 February 2013

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This publication of the Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy (IATP) is a review of recent publications (mostly since 2007) on links between agricultural, food and climate change. It does not reflect the position of the IATP. It summarises the existing literature to provide a tool for...

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The environmental food crisis

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 25 February 2013

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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report presents an inventory of the 2008 food crisis and highlights current and future issues with livestock, crop and aquaculture production. The authors analyse the relationship between climate change and agricultural production. They look first at...

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Closing the gaps: Disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in developing countries

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 25 February 2013

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The Commission on climate change and development was launched in 2007 by the Swedish government. The Commission examined adaptation to climate change and its links with development and disaster risk reduction and was asked to issue policy recommendations. The first chapter of this report is a...

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Climate change and the right to food

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 25 February 2013

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The report proposes concrete methods by which institutions can address climate change problems and realize the right to food symbiotically, in compliance with the integration under international law. Climate change and the policies instituted to combat it are affecting the realization of the right...

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Deepening the food crisis: Climate change, food security and the right to food

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 25 February 2013

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The aim of this study is to document important facts about the relationship between climate change and food security, evaluate these facts systematically and incorporate them in policy recommendations for the national and international level, focusing on the development of policies to adapt to...

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Gestion du risque climatique en agriculture

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 22 February 2013

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L'objet de cet article est de rapporter les principaux éléments de discussion sur les opportunités et les limites des instruments de gestion des risques agricoles. Dans la première partie, une typologie des aléas auxquels sont confrontés les agriculteurs ainsi que la définition des principaux...

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Climate change: What role for insurance?

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 22 February 2013

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This brief shows how insurance, including public-private arrangements, play a role in helping vulnerable countries to adapt. After a brief analysis of the future impacts of climate change in the most vulnerable developing countries, this paper studies potential insurance instruments. These...

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Climate change, food security and the right to adequate food

Moderating team ROSA updated the Document | 22 February 2013

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Coherence between policies on climate change adaptation, food security and human rights needs to be improved and should incorporate rapidly growing knowledge on agriculture and climate change. The aim of this study prepared by 3 German humanitarian and advocacy NGOs is to favour this coherence, by...

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