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Soils help to combat and adapt to climate change by playing a key role in the carbon cycle
2015
Healthy soils provide the largest store of terrestrial carbon. When managed sustainably, soils can play an important role in climate change mitigation...
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Food Wastage Footprint & Climate Change
2015
The 2011 FAO assessment of global food losses and waste estimated that each year, one-third of all food produced in the world for human consumption...
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Enabling Farmers to Face Climate Change
2015
This booklet provides an overview of the characteristics and main activities of the projects that are being implemented as part of the second project...
Data & Tools
FAOSTAT Emissions Agriculture Database
2015
The FAOSTAT Emissions Agriculture database provides country-level estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions based on FAOSTAT activity data and using...
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Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans
2015
This flyer outlines the FAO and UNDP 'Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans programme'.
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Gender in Climate-Smart Agriculture - Module 18 'Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook'
2015
This Gender in Climate-Smart Agriculture module was pre-pared jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural...
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Adaptation to climate risk and food security - Evidence from smallholder farmers in Ethiopia
2015
This paper explores the impact of climate risk on the adoption of risk decreasing practices and other input choices and evaluates their impact on subjective...
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Coping with Climate Change - The Roles of Genetic Resoruces for Food and Agriculture
2015
Genetic resources for food and agriculture underpin the ability of crops, livestock, aquatic organisms and forest trees to withstand a range of harsh...
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Forested areas have decreased but the rate of net forest loss has been cut by 50%.
2015
The extent of the world’s forest continues to decline as human populations continue to grow and demand for food and land increases. Implementing sustainable...