Crop yields, livestock productivity, and food nutritional content ar e all negatively impacted by climate change. Breeding resilient crops and livestock is crucial to address...
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Climate change mitigation livestock
As the pace of climate change is increasing, it is more important than ever to conserve, characterize and sustainably use genetic resources for food and griculture. Over millennia farmers, livestock...
Why is climate-smart agriculture needed?
To achieve food security and agricultural development goals, adaptation to climate change and lower emission intensities per output will be necessary...
Section A – Concept
Introduction
This module introduces key climate change issues that need to be addressed in agricultural sectors to help achieve the SDGs, including the...
Agricultural expansion to meet humanity’s growing needs for food and materials is a leading driver of land-use change, exacerbating climate change and biodiversity loss. Seaweed biomass farmed...
This paper analyses the impact of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies on household dietary diversity and food insufficiency as indicators of food and nutrition security in Kenya. Using a combination of Propensity...
Communities in sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing the most severe droughts in decades, impacting livestock and crop production. In 2019, the EU presented plans to increase adaptation finance...
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report – Working Group III - Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change
In relation to the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU), the report stresses that AFOLU mitigation options, when sustainably implemented, can deliver large-scale GHG emission...
Highlights
Large-scale land-based mitigation (~600 Mha) in pathways in line with the Paris agreement could conflict with food security.
Mitigation in 2050 might change food...
KEY MESSAGES
Centering food systems transformation within climate change action is critical to cutting emissions and delivering on the target to limit global warming to 1.5°C...