Call for Papers: Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation
Working on a CBR with Indigenous Farmers in Sarawak
New Eldis Resource: The Role of Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge and Participatory Plant Breeding in Climate Change Adaptation in Karst Mountain Areas in SW China
New Deadline for submissions of abstracts :: 30th April 2013
Contribute to the Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation -> A collaborative initiative of The International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP) and Springer.
The Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation focuses in one of the key aspects of climate change: adaptation and how to handle its impacts on physical, biotic and human systems, including social and normative scientific concerns, coupled with the tools, approaches and methods aimed at the management of these effects and impacts.
Agriculture has been the backbone to the livelihoods of communities in rural Sarawak for many generations and crops such as rubber, rice and pepper are of prime importance to the household income of these communities. Many other crops, although economically less important, provide a food for a diverse diet, building materials, medicines, animal fodder and [...]
Eldis, one of a family of knowledge services from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex has just made available a report of a country case study on the impacts of climate change and local people’s adaptation. The research sites are located in the karst mountainous region in 3 SW China provinces – Guangxi, Guizhou and [...]
April 18th, 2012 | News
Wednesday, 18 April 14:30 – 15:30 CET. CCAFS second science seminar covering the topic of managing pests and disease in a changing climate. To read more about it in PAR CC events section open the post and click here
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March 29th, 2012 | Featured, middle, News, Publications
The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change has launched its report on “Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change” on 28 March at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London. In its final report, the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change proposes specific policy responses to the global challenge of feeding [...]
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March 27th, 2012 | Featured, News, Organisations, Publications
This chapter, in the new released International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) publication ‘Role of Policy and Institutions in Local Adaptation to Climate Change: Case studies on responses to too much and too little water in the Hindu Kush Himalayas’ documents the results of three case studies completed in China, Nepal, and Pakistan. It [...]
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March 16th, 2012 | Featured, News, Organisations
The Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres, stated that the upcoming negotiations on a legal framework to replace the Kyoto Protocol will provide the agricultural sectors of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean with the best opportunity ever to make their voices heard. San Jose, March 7, 2012 (IICA). In response to [...]
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March 14th, 2012 | Featured, Job opportunities, middle, News
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is an independent research institution which generates science-based knowledge about the complex role trees play in agricultural landscapes and rural livelihoods. As part of the Centre’s work to bring tree-based solutions to bear on poverty and environmental problems, researchers – working in close collaboration with partners – are developing new [...]
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