Agriculture and Climate Change
A key challenge facing the world today is how to double food production to feed 9 billion people by 2050, achieve poverty reduction through agricultural growth, while minimising greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and adapting agriculture to a warmer world with more extremes of weather.
Meeting this challenge will require greater understanding of the impacts of climate change on agriculture, as well as major investments to help farmers contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to prepare for the impacts of climate change on their livelihoods.
The Platform aims to support the ARD community towards this imperative.
The Platform’s work on agriculture and climate change:
- Advocating for the inclusion of provisions for investments in agriculture in developing countries in the emerging climate regime, and
- Sharing knowledge between ARD stakeholders to ensure that their climate change investments meet the standards of aid and development effectiveness.
Analysis and tracking of agriculture in the UNFCCC negotiations and beyond
Literature and links on the nexus between agriculture, development and climate change
Pushing the link between agriculture and rural development, climate change, and food security
Selected references on the nexus between agriculture and climate change
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News
Rome, 22 April. The strategy supports innovative approaches that will help smallholder producers build their resilience to climate change and take advantage of available mitigation incentives and funding. More...
Interviews
Gordon Conway, Imperial College London
Gordon Conway discusses Africa’s challenges and possible solutions to achieve its own green revolution.
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Achim Steiner, UNEP
Climate change is a wake-up call to the importance of sustainable rural development, says UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
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Elwyn Grainger-Jones, DFID
DFID’s Elwyn Grainger-Jones weighs in on the relationship between climate change, carbon markets, and ARD.
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Gerald Nelson, IFPRI
Smallholders’ interests must be factored into post-2012 climate change arrangements, says IFPRI’s Gerald Nelson.
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