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Two newly released publications by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations can serve as useful planning tools for Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and Low Emission Development Strategies within the agricultural sector. The two publications – a review paper and a guidance document – offer readers building blocks for national mitigation action […]

Anette Engelund Friis, responsible for climate change issues at the World Farmers’ Organization and a member of the Farming First Steering Committee, discusses key issues that need to be addressed at the upcoming UNFCCC climate conference COP19 in Poland. Climate change is transforming the world, with extreme and unpredictable weather patterns altering the natural landscape. […]

Over the past couple of weeks, acknowledging and embracing multiple objectives related to food, environment, and social wellbeing has surfaced as a common theme from our Roundtable authors in discussing the intensification of agricultural systems, and particularly as an impetus for adopting a landscape perspective. So too did this important theme stand out in a […]

People in the industrialized world reap the benefits of a well-connected and seamlessly functioning network of weather stations. Instant accessibility to real-time weather information guides society’s day-to-day decision making – from what clothes to wear, how to get to and from destinations, to what crops to plant. It’s difficult to imagine a world where a weekend weather […]

I am pleased to see the two leading international consortia on forests and agriculture and rural development coming together at the Global Landscapes Forum to tackle pressing development and climate change issues from a wider perspective. It is well known that the fate of forests and food is bound. Because deforestation, climate change and food […]

The risk of drought is high as climate changes. But agriculture can become resilient, say senior researchers from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in a special Nature Outlook. Agriculture will be faced with alarming challenges under a changing climate, with many parts of the world facing more severe […]