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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Climate change, food security and the right to adequate food

Moderating team ROSA uploaded a new Document | 24 January 2013

summary_climate_change_deepening_the_food_crisis_germanwatch_bread_for_the_world_2008.pdf 856.29 KB

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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Governance for a resilient food system

Moderating team ROSA uploaded a new Document | 24 January 2013

governance_resilient_food_system_2011_oxfam.pdf 254.92 KB

This paper's central argument is that access to food is as important as how much food is produced and that in a world of food price volatility, climate change and other kinds of shocks and stresses, there is a great need to build resilience in the food system. Section one of the paper looks at...

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Changing climates, changing lives. Adaptation strategies of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia and Mali

Moderating team ROSA uploaded a new Document | 24 January 2013

acf_changing_climates.pdf 1.97 MB

This report looks at the implications of climate change for pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia and Mali, based on field work carried out between May and October 2009. The report focuses on local perceptions of climate shocks, how communities respond and their limits. The report...

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Climate change, food and nutrition security implications

Moderating team ROSA uploaded a new Document | 24 January 2013

scn_news_28_climate_change_fsn_implications.pdf 5.42 MB

This issue of UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) News is on climate change and its impact on food and nutrition. There are some fifteen articles looking at different aspects of the subject, including impact on food security, effect on food crop quality, access to drinking water, food...

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

Moderating team ROSA uploaded a new Document | 24 January 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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Climate change and the right to food

Moderating team ROSA uploaded a new Document | 24 January 2013

climat_change_and_the_right_to_food.pdf 1.89 MB

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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Le Sahel face aux changements climatiques. Enjeux pour un développement durable

Moderating team ROSA uploaded a new Document | 24 January 2013

bulletin_agrhymet_changement_climatique.pdf 3.26 MB

Le bulletin spécial du CILSS regroupe les contributions de plusieurs experts du Centre Régional Agrhymet sur les enjeux du changement climatique au Sahel. Plusieurs de ces contributions recoupent les questions de sécurité alimentaire en lien avec la production agricole régionale. La contribution d'...

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Adapting to climate change : How local experiences can shape the debate ?

Moderating team ROSA uploaded a new Document | 24 January 2013

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This briefing paper is based on eight case studies carried out by local organisations working on adaptation to climate change in different countries. The studies describe local adaptation strategies and offer an assessment of political actions and the institutional issues in each of the countries...

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

Moderating team ROSA uploaded a new Document | 24 January 2013

closing_the_gaps.pdf 3.44 MB

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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Responding to climate change: Sector script. Agriculture & Rural Development

Moderating team ROSA uploaded a new Document | 24 January 2013

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This document provides a practical guidance on the links between climate change and a agriculture and rural development (ARD). It is part of a series of sector scripts that provide guidance on the links between climate change and a specific sector, together with possible responses. It may be used...

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