Agricultural Development under a Changing Climate [electronic resource] : Opportunities and Challenges for Adaptation. / Jon Padgham.
Material type: TextSeries: Environment Department Papers | World Bank e-LibraryPublication details: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2009Subject(s): Agricultural Research | Agriculture | Aquifers | Barley | Capacity Building | Carbon Dioxide | Carbon Sequestration | Clean Development Mechanism | Climate Change | Climate Change Economics | Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases | Climate Risk Management | Crops | Decision Making | Deforestation | Desertification | Emissions | Environment | Evapotranspiration | Floods | Food Production | Food Safety | Forests | Glaciers | Global Environment Facility | Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change | Irrigation | Livestock | Logging | Macroeconomics and Economic Growth | Methane | Monsoons | Population Growth | Precipitation | Property Rights | Rainfall | Rainwater Harvesting | Rainy Season | Rice | Risk Management | Rural Development | Soil Carbon | Storms | Streams | Surface Water | Temperature | Trees | Water Supply and SanitationOnline resources: Click here to access online Abstract: Climate change presents a profound challenge to food security and development. Negative impacts from climate change are likely to be greatest in regions that are currently food insecure and may even be significant in those regions that have made large gains in reducing food insecurity over the past half-century. Adaptation in the agricultural sector is being given a high priority within this effort because of the inherent sensitivity of food production to climate and the strong inter-linkages that exist between climate, agriculture, and economic growth and development. The purpose of this report is to review the major effects of climate change on the agricultural sector; to examine the causes of vulnerability; and to suggest a range of potential options and investment opportunities for supporting adaptation efforts and, more generally, for building adaptive capacity. This report primarily focuses on appropriate strategies for adapting to climate change impacts that are projected to occur over the next one to two decades, although several issues covered in this report are important for long-term adaptation needs as well. This report also describes opportunities for linking adaptation and mitigation, and it discusses the importance of mainstreaming adaptation into development.Climate change presents a profound challenge to food security and development. Negative impacts from climate change are likely to be greatest in regions that are currently food insecure and may even be significant in those regions that have made large gains in reducing food insecurity over the past half-century. Adaptation in the agricultural sector is being given a high priority within this effort because of the inherent sensitivity of food production to climate and the strong inter-linkages that exist between climate, agriculture, and economic growth and development. The purpose of this report is to review the major effects of climate change on the agricultural sector; to examine the causes of vulnerability; and to suggest a range of potential options and investment opportunities for supporting adaptation efforts and, more generally, for building adaptive capacity. This report primarily focuses on appropriate strategies for adapting to climate change impacts that are projected to occur over the next one to two decades, although several issues covered in this report are important for long-term adaptation needs as well. This report also describes opportunities for linking adaptation and mitigation, and it discusses the importance of mainstreaming adaptation into development.
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