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Understanding Loss and Damage: Addressing the unavoidable impacts of climate change
Many consequences of climate change are already hard to reverse, and extreme weather events will become more frequent in the future. That shows a need to discuss which climate impacts are difficult or impossible to adapt to, and a need to address losses and damages. All regions will be affected by climate change, but the extent of loss and damage will vary between locations. Although the concept of Loss and Damage (L&D) is not new, it is still quite vague and not well defined in climate policy. It ...
Plant Breeding and Innovative Agriculture (Part of the Project ''Technology options for feeding 10 billion people')
In the frame of the STOA project “Technology options for feeding 10 billion people”, this report analyse how farming management concepts, practices and technologies, including plant breeding, could enable sustainable intensification of crop production, with the aim to increase food production and support food supply. The aim of sustainable intensification is to produce more food from the same area of land while reducing the environmental impacts, under social and economic beneficial conditions. ...
Interactions between Climate Change & Agriculture and Biodiversity & Agriculture (Part of the Project 'Technology Options for Feeding 10 Billion People')
There will be rising global demand for food and energy from the land over the coming decades resulting from population growth and economic development. This will coincide with the need to adapt agriculture to increasing climate-related threats (which will probably outweigh opportunities in Europe), whilst decreasing the impact of agricultural emissions on climate change. At the same time, biodiversity losses due to intensive agricultural practices and abandonment of biodiversity-rich farming are ...
The Spanish Agricultural Insurance Scheme: National experiences and recommendations - Looking at the CAP post 2013
The growing uncertainties faced by agriculture can be successfully managed by means of insurance. The Spanish agricultural insurance scheme is based on a mixed “public/private” model and is designed to guarantee crop and livestock farmers coverage for any uncontrollable natural phenomenon. The system is consolidated, with an establishment of 55%, and it now has the experience to advance, bringing in new coverages such as market risks.
Consequences of Climate Change for Agricultural Production
Climate plays a major role in determining the yield levels, the year-to-year variability and the spatial patterns of global agriculture. Agriculture is sensitive to short term changes in weather and to seasonal, annual and longer term variations in climate. Over the long term, agriculture is able to tolerate moderate variations about the climatic mean. Longterm marked changes in temperature, precipitation, and solar radiation will have an effect on the productivity of crop and livestock agriculture ...