Agriculture and Climate Change
An overview poster of the Platform’s publications and events on 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 emmissions and to prepare for the impacts of climate change on thier 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 thier climate change investments meet the standards of aid and development effectiveness.
Analysis and tracking of agriculture in the UNFCCC negotiations and beyond
Leading-edge literature and links on the nexus between agriculture, development and climate change
Platform fora in the push to see agriculture included in a Copenhagen agreement
Selected references on the agricultural dividend of climate change
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Interviews
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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Wendy Mann, FAO
Agriculture has come a long way in the climate change negotations, says FAO’s Wendy Mann, but the real work still lays ahead.
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