CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD SECURITY: A FRAMEWORK DOCUMENT subjects: Education and Training Planning Tools levels and types of education: Higher education, Life long learning, Tertiary education Non-formal education |
_ _ FAO, ROME, 2008 |
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| This paper is a useful tool for policy makers, trainers and extension workers on rural development. This paper seeks to illuminate the potential impacts of climate change on food security at the local level. This phenomena is viewed within the larger framework of changing earth system dynamics and observable changes in multiple socio-economic and environmental variables. It describes adopting practices that enable vulnerable people to protect existing livelihood systems, diversify their sources of income, change their livelihood strategies.
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Contact: _ Interdepartmental Working Group on Climate Change FAO Rome ,Italy Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 |
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