Publications
Publications
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...
Publications
Climate Change and Food Systems – Global assessments and implications for food security and trade
2015
Global warming will have profound consequences on where and how food is produced, and also lead to a reduction in the nutritional properties of some...
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Emerging Activities to Combat Climate Change – Use of FAO Data and IPCC GHG Inventory Guidelines for Agriculture and Land Use
2015
The FAO-IPCC-IFAD report summarizes the findings of a joint workshop held at FAO Headquarters on 13-14 November 2014. It provides information on access...
Submission
Development of early warning systems and contingency plans in relation to extreme weather events
2015
Submission by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on issues related to agriculture, as requested in the conclusions of...
Data & Tools
Breed Distribution Model
2015
The current geographic distributions (available at least at country level and in some cases at subnational level) of about 8800 livestock breeds, as...
Publications
The impact of disasters on agriculture and food security
2015
This study assesses the impact of medium to large-scale natural hazards and disasters on the agriculture sector and subsectors in developing countries...
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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...
Publications
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...
