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Author: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2018-06-14
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9251097062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo better understand the current dynamics affecting food production, this publication presents a model for examining the impact of climate change on agricultural production systems, including spatial datasets, tabular information and metadata.
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2018-06-06
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that 815 million people in the world today are chronically hungry. After declining for over a decade, in 2017 global hunger is on the rise again. According to this year’s estimates, the world must, by 2050, produce 49 percent more food than in 2012 as populations grow and diets change. At the same time, almost 80 percent of the poor live in rural areas where people depend on agriculture, fisheries or forestry as their main source of income and food. If temperatures continue to rise, then progress towards eradicating hunger and ensuring the sustainability of our natural-resource base to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will be at risk. This publication presents FAO’s key messages on climate change and food security. It includes examples of FAO’s support to countries so they are better able to adapt to the impacts of climate change in the agricultural sectors. It also brings together FAO’s most up-to-date knowledge on climate change, including the tools and methodologies used to support countries’ climate commitments and action plans.
Author: Marcel Leroux
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2001-09-01
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9783540426363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique book includes 250 maps related to various factors of meteorology and climate and their effects on the African continent. It provides detailed coverage of fundamentally important issues concerning African meterology, climatology, tropical circulation, rainfall, drought and climate change.
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Cherry
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-02-07
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 3319699296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume is concerned with the evolution and achievements of cooperation in research and innovation between Africa and Europe, and points to the need for more diversified funding and finance mechanisms, and for novel models of collaboration to attract new actors and innovative ideas. It reflects on the political, economic, diplomatic and scientific rationale for cooperation, while also examining practical developments, illustrated with examples, in the fields of food security, health, and climate change. The need to mobilise scientific knowledge and to ensure equality and fairness in the cooperation are recurrent themes. Africa-Europe Cooperation in Research and Innovation is essential reading for policy makers and researchers in international relations and science diplomacy.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-11-06
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9004282696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume attempts to dig deeper into what is currently happening in Africa’s agricultural and rural sector and to convince policymakers and others that it is important to look at the current African rural dynamics in ways that connect metropolitan demands for food with value chain improvements and agro-food cluster innovations. It is essential to go beyond a ‘development bureaucracy’ and a state-based approach to rural transformation, such as the one that often dominates policy debate in African government circles, organizations like the African Union and the UN, and donor agencies.
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9251314292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report presents the findings of a multi-year FAO study undertaken on over 900 farms in ten different countries that measured, using field data, benefits gained through the use of innovative farming practices designed to boost the resilience of farmers in the face of natural disasters and other shocks. Its findings show that the use of good disaster risk reduction practices offer significant economic gains at the household level, and also that – because they are usually low-cost and easily implemented – they hold significant potential for reducing disaster risks at the national and regional scales as well. These results can guide farmers in making choices about how to manage risks, and have important implications for disaster risk policymaking as well.
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver two-hundred fifty multidisciplinary pan-European research projects dealing with climate change have been funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007-2013). The projects presented address a multitude of scientific issues ranging from climate processes, observation and projections to climate change adaptation, mitigation and policies. This overview should be useful to many stakeholders including the scientific community and regulatory authorities.
Author: Artwell Nhemachena
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9956550116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighlighting the problematiques of working with a narrow version of greenhouse effects or global warming, this book posits the theory of necroclimatism that encompasses broader versions of greenhouse effects and global warming. Conceiving cultures, societies, moral sensibilities, epistemologies, polities, economies, legal systems and religions of the formerly colonised peoples as greenhoused and entrapped in the heat of global apartheid and neo-colonialism, the book refuses to be confined to the pufferies of physical conceptualisations of greenhousing and global warming. Underlining the supposed disposability and dispensability of colonised peoples, the notion of necroclimatism explicates ways in which some people suffer various forms of death, which have increasingly become a feature of global apartheid and neo-colonialism that are cast in spectral sacrificial logics. Deemed to constitute disposable bodies, disposable cultures, disposable polities, disposable societies, disposable epistemologies, disposable religions, disposable laws and disposable economies, the sacrificed are, in the age of climate catastrophism, once again reminded that they have duties to die, to become extinct in order to save the global spaceship that is sinking due to climate change and global warming. This book therefore argues that in a sacrificial world (dis)order, binaries between humans and animals, good and evil, moral and immoral, the dead and the living necessarily vanish in the nefarious logic of what marks the era of climate catastrophism and the attendant necroclimatism. The book further argues that a sacrificial world (dis)order is necessarily a posthumanist and postanthropocentric world (dis)order, which should be never granted space in African worlds and even beyond. The book thus, raises fundamental questions for African anticipatory regimes, and for this reason it is handy for scholars in political science, sociology, social anthropology, development studies, environmental studies, agricultural studies, legal studies, food science, geography, religious studies and decolonial fields of studies.
Author: David García-Álvarez
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-06-16
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 3030909980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book represents a comprehensive review of available land-use cover data and techniques to validate and analyze this type of spatial information. The book provides the basic theory needed to understand the progress of LUCC mapping/modeling validation practice. It makes accessible to any interested user most of the research community's methods and techniques to validate LUC maps and models. Besides, this book is enriched with practical exercises to be applied with QGIS. The book includes a description of relevant global and supra-national LUC datasets currently available. Finally, the book provides the user with all the information required to manage and download these datasets.
