Tag: climate change
Veneless Chimpesa: Why Agricultural Extension Matters
Global: Extension workers are as important as technologies, says Gorta-Self Help Africa agent.
Read MoreUpdated Guide to Negotiations on Agriculture and Climate Change Launches
Global: Farming First, CCAFS and CTA bring the UNFCCC toolkit up to date with latest messaging and knowledge ahead Bonn Climate Change Conference.
Read MoreYouth Put Agritech Toolbox To The Test
Global: We asked four members of the YPARD network from around the world to put the brand new online model, “Agritech Toolbox”, to the test.
Read MoreWhat is the Role of Agricultural Technologies for Global Food Security?
Global: A wealth of technologies is now at our disposal for boosting yields of the world’s key staple crops, in order to face the large demands on our food supplies by 2050. But how can we measure which ones will be most effective, when, and where? Which combinations of technologies will have the largest impact? Until […]
Read MoreRachel Kyte: What Next for Climate-Smart Agriculture?
Global: In this guest post, Rachel Kyte, Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank, reflects on the lack of progress made in getting agriculture on the agenda at the recently concluded UN climate talks, and she looks to the newly launched Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture as a possible channel for building consensus and fostering […]
Read MoreWhy Have Farmers Yet Again Been Forgotten at the UN Climate Talks?
Global: Representatives from the World Farmers Organisation (WFO) have just written two articles from their vantage point on-site at the UN climate talks in Warsaw. Despite multiple years of farmers coming together to ask UN negotiators for getting agriculture onto the climate agenda, it looks as if any progress will be postponed yet again to another […]
Read More“Let us Choose What Works for our Farms,” Say Farmers about the Tools and Technologies Needed to Tackle Climate Change
Global: At last week’s World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa, a panel of five farmers from four continents discussed how they are responding to the challenges which global climate change will pose to their farms. (Read the Reuters Alertnet coverage of the event here; see the full event programme and video here.) The panel was […]
Read More2013 World Food Prize Panel Event: Five Farmers from Four Continents: “Impacts and Opportunities of Global Climate Change”
Global: On 16th October, 2013, Farming First co-hosted a farmer roundtable event at the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa. (Read our commentary from the event and interview with the farmers here.) The event featured five farmers from around the world (Africa, Europe, South Asia and South America), who shared their thoughts on the on-farm […]
Read MoreFarming First Launch New Guide to UNFCCC Discussions on Agriculture
Global: At Farming First we are excited to announce the launch of the Guide to UNFCCC Discussions on Agriculture. Launched today, exactly two months before COP19 takes place in November, the guide aims to provide key stakeholders with a one-stop source of information on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change discussions. Offering a series […]
Read MoreProviding Solutions to Climate Change in Madagascar
Africa & Middle East: Madagascar is a country rich in biodiversity, but deforestation, land degradation and the effects of climate change are ravaging the nation’s natural resources. It is estimated that 20% of the island is already affected by desertification. Eighty-five percent of the Malagasy population practice subsistence farming. More than eighty percent of the population survives on less […]
Read MoreSoil Degradation in the Seychelles
Africa & Middle East: The main threat the Seychelles islands face is desertification and further soil degradation during heavy rainfall. As a small and yet geographically diverse island, the Seychelles consists of many extremely vulnerable ecosystems. Climate change has led to coastal erosion, flooding and more frequent and intense tropical storms, which has resulted in a shortage of arable […]
Read MoreClimate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh
Asia: In the last two decades, an ever-increasing frequency of floods, droughts and cyclones have caused extensive economic damage and have impaired livelihoods in Bangladesh. Agriculture, a key economic sector accounting for nearly 20 per cent of GDP and 65 per cent of the labour force, is greatly at risk. Adapting to and mitigating the effects […]
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