Excerpt: Agriculture is a sector which gets heavily ipacted by climate variability while it also significantly contributes to climate change. Agriculture production contributes about 14% to the total GHG emissions worldwide. This does not include the emissions during agri-food chain... Download
Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia; A Framework for Regional Cooperation Excerpt: While climate change is now widely perceived as perhaps the most serious and complex problem of the times ahead, at the same time South Asia has been often identified as an area where very serious impacts of climate change may be manifested in the near future Download
Excerpt: Climate change is not only an environmental issue but a defining problem for generations to come which can slow down the pace of progress towards sustainable development either directly or through increased exposure to adverse impact or indirectly through erosion of the capacity to adapt. Download
Excerpt: The climate smart agriculture being pushed down the throats of small farmers in the world is advocated as triple win, increased food production, cash for poor farmers and climate resilience in farming. It sounds impressive. However, there are no models yet to show that it can happen the way which is being proposed. Download
Excerpt: A public hearing on the ‘impact of climate change in rainfed areas’ was organized on 4th November, 2009 by Oxfam and its allies at B.S. Mehta Bhavan, HCM- RIPA Jaipur. The event hosted by CECOEDECON and PAIRVI was attended by representatives from 12 states of the rain fed areas of the country. Download
