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Food security and climate change in the Pacific : rethinking the options
The Pacific island governments view climate change as a priority issue, especially in terms of its potential impacts on food security, but need clear directions in addressing both issues. Their agricultural production until the mid-1990s, has been stagnant for the last 45 years, and per capita agricultural production has declined in all countries. This report examines the issues of food security and climate change in the Pacific and the contributing factors based on the Pacific food security framework. It suggests focal areas of assistance for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and other donors ...
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Available online: https://www.adb.org/publications/food-security-and-climate-change-pacific-rethin [...]
M. Ahmed ; J. Maclean ; M.A. Sombilla ; Asian Development Bank
Published by: ADB ; 2011The Pacific island governments view climate change as a priority issue, especially in terms of its potential impacts on food security, but need clear directions in addressing both issues. Their agricultural production until the mid-1990s, has been stagnant for the last 45 years, and per capita agricultural production has declined in all countries. This report examines the issues of food security and climate change in the Pacific and the contributing factors based on the Pacific food security framework. It suggests focal areas of assistance for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and other donors for improving food security in Pacific countries.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Food Safety ; Agroclimatology ; Region V - South-West Pacific
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Published by: WMO ; 2011
Language(s): Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Format: CD, DVD, Digital (Standard Copyright)Tags: Weather ; Climate ; Agriculture ; Agrometeorology ; Agroclimatology
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ContentServicios de Informatión y Predictión del Clima (SIPC) y Aplicaciones Agrometeorológicas para los Países Andinos : actas de la Reunión Téchnia (2004)
User Requirements for Satellite and Other Remote-Sensing Information in the Field of Agricultural Meteorology (2004)
The Impacts of Agrometeorological Application for Sustainable Management of Farming, Forestry and Livestock (2003)
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Published by: OMM ; 2011
Language(s): Spanish; Other Languages: English, French
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Capacity development ; Agroclimatology ; Agrometeorology ; World Climate Programme (WCP)
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Published by: OMM ; 2011
Language(s): French; Other Languages: English, Spanish
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Capacity development ; Agroclimatology ; Agrometeorology ; World Climate Programme (WCP)
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Vol. 113. No. 1-2 - January-June 2009 - Special Issue: Symposium on Climate Change and Variability — Agrometeorological Monitoring and Coping Strategies for Agriculture
is an issue of Időjárás. HMS, 2010Contents:
- Applications of agroclimatic indices and process oriented crop simulation models in European agriculture / Josef Eitzinger, Sabina Thaler, Simone Orlandini, Pavol Nejedlik, Valentin Kazandjiev, Tor Hakon Sivertsen, and Dragutin Mihailovic
- Coupled land-air parameterization scheme (LAPS) and nonhydrostatic mesoscale model (NMM) for use in agricultural planning /Dragutin T. Mihailovic and Branislava Lalic
- Brief surveying and discussing of drought indices used in agricultural meteorology /Zoltán Dunkel
- Secular trend analysis of growing degree-days in ...
[number or issue]Vol. 113. No. 1-2 - January-June 2009 - Special Issue: Symposium on Climate Change and Variability — Agrometeorological Monitoring and Coping Strategies for Agriculture
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Available online: http://www.met.hu/omsz.php?almenu_id=omsz&pid=references&mpx=0&kps=1&pri=2&sm0=1 [...]
Contents:
- Applications of agroclimatic indices and process oriented crop simulation models in European agriculture / Josef Eitzinger, Sabina Thaler, Simone Orlandini, Pavol Nejedlik, Valentin Kazandjiev, Tor Hakon Sivertsen, and Dragutin Mihailovic
- Coupled land-air parameterization scheme (LAPS) and nonhydrostatic mesoscale model (NMM) for use in agricultural planning /Dragutin T. Mihailovic and Branislava Lalic
- Brief surveying and discussing of drought indices used in agricultural meteorology /Zoltán Dunkel
- Secular trend analysis of growing degree-days in Croatia /Višnja Vučetić
- Progress in dryness and wetness parameters in altitudinal vegetation stages of West Carpathians: Time-series analysis 1951-2007 /Jaroslav Škvarenina, Ján Tomlain, Ján Hrvol', Jana Škvareninová, and Pavol Nejedlík
- Sustainable production zoning for agroclimatic classification using GIS and remote sensing /Emmanouel Tsiros, Christos Domenikiotis, and Nicolas R. Dalezios
- Current trends of agroclimatic indices applied to grapevine in Tuscany (Central Italy) /Simone Orlandini, Valentina Di Stefano, Paolo Lucchesini, Annalena Puglisi, and Giorgio Bartolini
- Testing different CO2 response algorithms against a face crop rotation experiment and application for climate change impact assessment at different sites in Germany /K.C. Kersebaum, C. Nendel, W. Mirschel, R. Manderscheid, H.-J. Weigel and K.-O. Wenkel
- Climate change mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability in agriculture /Mannava V. K. Sivakumar and Robert Stefanski
- Some perspectives on agricultural GHG mitigation and adaptation strategies with respect to the impact of climate change/variability in vulnerable areas /Ward Smith, Brian Grant, and Ray Desjardins
- Developing an adaptation strategy for sustainable agriculture /Raymond P. Motha
- Effect of climate change on growth potential in the mountainous region of southeast Norway /Ole Hans Baadshaug and Lars Egil Haugen
- Drought analyses of agricultural regions as influenced by climatic conditions in the Slovak Republic /Bernard Šiška and Jozef Takáč
- Consequences of climate change on some maize characteristics in Hungary /László Dióssy and Angela AndaLanguage(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Environment and landscape ; Geographical Information System (GIS) ; Climate change ; Agroclimatology ; Croatia ; Germany ; Hungary ; Norway
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The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A Regional Review
ADB, 2009This report, published by the Asian Development Bank, examines the economics of climate change in Southeast Asia. The report focuses on Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam in particular. It is found that the region is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to its heavily populated coastal areas and its reliance on agriculture. Therefore, Southeast Asia will be required to undertake a relatively high proportion of adaptation measures. It is also argued that the region has a great deal of potential in terms of climate change mitigation and the regio ...
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Coping with a changing climate: considerations for adaptation and mitigation in agriculture
This book presents historical evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and the current challenges climate change poses on world food security. It argues that changing climatic conditions are projected to affect food security from the local to the global level as the unpredictability of weather conditions increases. It calls for new policy driven options to address the emerging challenges of attaining improved food security.
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Case study on the impact of climate change on the agriculture of an indigenous community in Guyana
Much like developing countries, indigenous peoples the world over are among the least responsible for climate change, yet they are expected to be some of those most blighted by its effects. This case study from Guyana focuses on Amerindian women in agriculture and examines the impact of natural disasters and climate change on their cassava production.The case study also illustrates how local populations have learnt to adjust to climatic changes which have been accepted as normal, natural processes.
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Séminaires itinérants pour les paysans sur le temps et le climat – Sénégal : rapport général
OMM, 2009A la demande des Directeurs des Services Météorologiques d’Afrique de l’Ouest, le Gouvernement du Royaume d’Espagne a bien voulu financer un projet dans le domaine de l’agrométéorologie d’un intérêt avéré pour l’ensemble des pays concernés. Le projet ciblé pour cette première se fixe comme objectif, la sensibilisation du monde rural (paysans, éleveurs, maraîchers…) sur les changements climatiques et ses manifestations dans leur terroir et le rôle des services météorologiques dans le développement et la sécurisation de l’agriculture. Cette sensibilisation devait se faire au moyen de séminaires ...
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Séminaires itinérants pour les paysans sur le Temps, le Climat et l’Agriculture au Niger
Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM); Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET); République du Niger - OMM, 2009Les séminaires itinérants pour les paysans sur le Temps, le Climat et l’Agriculture au Niger se sont tenus en décembre 2008 et janvier 2009. Rappelons que l’idée de ces rencontres découle d’une proposition faite lors de la réunion des Directeurs des Services Météorologiques et Hydrologiques Nationaux d’Afrique de l’Ouest tenue à Las Palmas, Espagne en octobre 2007. Ainsi à travers une première réunion des experts en Agrométéorologie de 5 pays du Sahel (Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritanie et Sénégal) tenue à Niamey en avril 2008, cette proposition a été analysée à fond et des stratégie ...
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Séminaires Itinérants pour les Paysans sur le Temps et le Climat en Afrique de l’Ouest : rapport général
OMM, 2009En réponse à une demande des Directeurs des Services Météorologiques et Hydrologiques Nationaux d’Afrique du Nord et de l’Ouest lors de leur rencontre tenue à Las Palmas en Espagne, du 17 au 19 octobre 2000, l’Organisation Météorologique Mondiale (OMM) et de l’Agence Etatique pour la Météorologie espagnole (AEMET) ont financé l’organisation de séminaires itinérants pour les paysans sur les temps et le climat en Afrique de l’Ouest.
Ces séminaires avaient pour objectifs de constituer un cadre de dialogue entre les Services Météorologiques et Hydrologiques Nationaux et les agriculteurs dan ...
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Rapport de la 2 ème phase des séminaires itinérants pour les paysans sur le Temps, le Climat et l’Agriculture au Niger
OMM, 2009L’idée de ces séminaires itinérants découle d’une proposition faite lors de la réunion des Directeurs des Services Météorologiques et Hydrologiques Nationaux d’Afrique de l’Ouest tenue à Las Palmas, Espagne en octobre 2007. Ainsi à travers une première réunion des experts en Agrométéorologie de 5 pays du Sahel (Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritanie et Sénégal) tenue à Niamey en avril 2008, cette proposition a été analysée à fond et des stratégies pour sa mise en œuvre ont été identifiées. Ensuite un atelier d’échange a réuni en septembre 2008 à Bamako les points focaux pour l’organisati ...
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Projet de Séminaires itinérants sur le temps et le climat au profit des agriculteurs et éleveurs de la Mauritanie
OMM, 2009
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Vol. 33, No. 1 - December 2006 - CR SPECIAL 16: Advances in applying climate prediction to agriculture
is an issue of Climate Research. Inter-Research, 2006CR SPECIAL 16 is based on the results of the international Climate Prediction and Agriculture (CLIMAG) program initiated in 1999. The program is aimed at improving the use of climate information for the benefit of smallholder farmers in developing countries, by helping them to anticipate and adapt to climate extremes.
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N° 29 - Juin 2006 - Faire face aux variations et aux risques climatiques
is an issue of Nouvelles du climat mondial. OMM, 2006Contient:
- Faire face à la variabilité et à l’évolution du climat
- Temps, climat et maladies infectieuses
- L’élévation du niveau de la mer
- Le trou d’ozone 2005 entre dans les annales
- Levée des incertitudes et gestion des risques face aux changements climatiques
- COP-7 de la CCD
- Nouveaux directeurs aux questions climatiques à l’OMM
- La gestion des risques climatiques dans le secteur agricole
- Préparatifs de l’Année polaire internationale
- Les concentrations de gaz à effet de serre ont atteint de nouveaux records ...
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No. 29 - June 2006 - Living with Climate Variation and Risk
is an issue of World Climate News. WMO, 2006Contents:
- Living with climate variability and change
- Climate and infectious disease risks
- Homing in on rising sea levels
- 2005 ozone hole one of largest
- Addressing uncertainties and risk management in climate change
- COP-7 of UNCCD
- New climate-related directors at WMO
- Managing climate risk in agriculture
- International Polar Year update
- Greenhouse gas concentrations reach new highs in 2004
- NewWebsite for WHYCOS
- Seasonal forecasts and risk management
- GEOSS update
- Tackling ...
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GCOS, 108. Information climatologique et développement : plan d'action pour l'Afrique - rapport et stratégie de mise en oeuvre
Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM); Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement (PNUE); Conseil International pour la Science (ICSU); et al. - OMM, 2006Le but de cette conférence était de réunir un large échantillon d’utilisateurs et de fournisseurs d'informations sur le climat pour identifier les lacunes et les besoins en matière d'observation et de services climatologiques dans le but d’atteindre les OMD. Les participants ont examiné plusieurs documents: une analyse des lacunes établie du point de vue des utilisateurs, qui évalue les améliorations à apporter à la fourniture d'informations et de services climatologiques aux utilisateurs de divers secteurs et aux décideurs pour permettre une meilleure gestion des risques climatiques, et deux ...
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CAgM Report, 101. Impacts of Desertification and Drought and Other Extreme Meteorological Events
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Gringof I.G.; Mersha E.; et al. - WMO, 2006 (WMO/TD-No. 1343)Report of the Joint Rapporteurs on the Impact of Agrometeorological Advisories and Information on Operational Aspects of Forestry Planning, with Emphasis on Wildland Fire Ecology, Including the Use of Prescribed Fire in Rangelands and Forests Preventing and Combating Wildfires in Forests and Rangelands.
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CAgM Report, 100. Impact of the Use of Meteorological and Climatological Data on Fisheries and Aquaculture
Report of the Joint Rapporteurs on the Impact of Agrometeorological Advisories and Information on Operational Aspects of Forestry Planning, with Emphasis on Wildland Fire Ecology, Including the Use of Prescribed Fire in Rangelands and Forests Preventing and Combating Wildfires in Forests and Rangelands.
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GCOS, 108. Climate information for development needs : an action plan for Africa - Report and implementation strategy
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); International Council for Science (ICSU); et al. - WMO, 2006 (WMO/TD-No. 1358)"The purpose of the meeting was to bring together a wide cross-section of the users and providers of climate information to identify the gaps and needs for climate observations and services to support efforts to achieve the MDGs. Participants considered several documents: a Gap Analysis, prepared from a user perspective, that assessed needed improvements in the provision of climate information and services to sectoral users and decisionmakers leading to better management of climate risks; and two Regional Action Plans prepared over the period 2001-04 (one for the countries of Eastern and South ...
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CAgM Report, 91. Interactions between climate and biological diversity
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Korsakova S.; Gringoryan V.; et al. - WMO, 2003 (WMO/TD-No. 1166)
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Climate variability, agriculture and forestry: Towards sustainability
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Desjardins R.L.; Janzen H.; et al. - WMO, 2002 (WMO-No. 928)This publication discusses the main causes of global climate variation and the direct effects of changes in atmospheric composition. Examples of increasing the adaptability of agriculture to climate variability are given, and management strategies to reduce the production of greenhouse gases from agriculture are discussed.
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