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	A training manual for agricultural extension agents: The use of RICCAR climate data in a crop model (APSIM) to identify context-based climate adaptation and mitigation options International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), UN Economic and Social Commision for Western Africa (ESCWA) (2023) C2 View PDF(18) Download (12) Add to my MEDBOX The Arab region in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) represents a substantial area of the terrestrial landmass encompassing several countries and ecosystems. This area is generally drier and warmer compared to the rest of the world and has extreme resource limitations that are highly vulnerable to a changing climate, geopolitical instability and land degradation (Slimani & Aidoud, 2004). Agriculture (crops and livestock) is a critical source of employment and a potential option for engaging rural youth. However, environmental degradation coupled with declining and variable agricultural productivity may pose a massive challenge already beset by instability and declining oil reserves (Tagliapietra, 2017). The Arab region is also subjected to short and long-duration climate extreme events, and the overall impact of their cascading effects on ecosystems, societies and economies is still an open question. Climate change, along with post-war geopolitical complexities, has greatly affected the Arab region in terms of its economy and social balance. Climate change has penetrating effects on the region’s agriculture sector and hence its economy. These are mainly manifested via changes in water resources and extreme weather conditions such as heatwaves and a drastic decline in precipitation Tags: Training manual, agricutlure, climate change, risk mitigation, Source: https://reliefweb.int/attachments/6bb5d5
	Increasing agricultural productivity across Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most important problems this century (Charts) Ritchie, H. Our World in Data (2022) CC Open external link (238) Add to my MEDBOX Agricultural productivity across Sub-Saharan Africa needs to improve to reduce hunger, poverty, and the destruction of biodiversity. Tags: charts, Agriculture, Productivity, biodiversity, Source: https://ourworldindata.org/africa-yields
	Changing food systems and infectious disease risks in low-income and middle-income countries Waage, J.; D. Grace; E.M. Févre; et al. The Lancet Planetary Health (2022) CC Open external link (212) Add to my MEDBOX Lancet Planet Health 2022;6: e760–68 The emergence of COVID-19 has drawn the attention of health researchers sharply back to the role that food systems can play in generating human disease burden. But emerging pandemic threats are just one dimension of the complex relationship between agriculture and infectious disease, which is evolving rapidly, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) that are undergoing rapid food system transformation. This changing relationship is examined through four current disease issues Tags: COVID-19, pandemic, food, food security, zoonosis, Antimicrobial resistance, water safety, sustainable food systems, Agriculture, public health, malaria, low and middle income countries, Source: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf
	Agriculture Adaptation Atlas CGIAR (2022) CC Open external link (122) Add to my MEDBOX The platform mapping climate risks and finding solutions Tags: Climate, Climate Change, Impact, Agriculture, data, resource platform, dashboard, Source: https://adaptationatlas.cgiar.org/
	Global Land Outlook Second Edition: Land Restoration for Recovery and Resilience UN Convention to Combat Desertification (2022) CC View PDF(65) Download (23) Add to my MEDBOX 27 April 2022 Chronic land degradation: UN offers stark warnings and practical remedies in Global Land Outlook 2. GLO2 offers hundreds of examples from around the world that demonstrate the potential of land restoration. The way land resources – soil, water and biodiversity – are currently mismanaged and misused threatens the health and continued survival of many species on Earth, including our own, warns a stark new report from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). It also points decision makers to hundreds of practical ways to effect local, national and regional land and ecosystem restoration Tags: land-use, biodiversity, land resources, drought, flood, Agriculture, Best Practice Examples, Land Degradation Neutrality, Analysis, Source: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.in
	AFOLU Carbon Calculator Grazing Management Tool USAID (2022) CC Open external link (242) Add to my MEDBOX The AFOLU Carbon Calculator’s (www.afolucarbon.org) Grazing Management Tool estimates the GHG impacts of activities that attempt to reduce emissions through improved grassland management, changes in livestock management, and/or rewetting organic soils Tags: carbon dioxide emissions, reduction model, Agriculture, Livestock, land-use, Land use management, Source: http://www.afolucarbon.org/
	Climate Smart Agriculture Sourcebook Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2022) CC Open external link (184) Add to my MEDBOX The Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook draws together a wide range of knowledge and expertise on the concept of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) to better guide policy makers, programme managers, sectoral experts, academics, extensionists, as well as practitioners to make the agricultural sectors (crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) more sustainable and productive, while responding to the challenges of climate change and food security. This new fully revised digital platform edition of the CSA Sourcebook reflects new scientific insights as well as valuable CSA implementation experience obtained since the publication of the first edition. Five new modules were added: Climate change adaptation and mitigation, Integrated production systems, Supporting rural producers with knowledge of Climate-Smart Agriculture, The role of Gender in Climate-Smart Agriculture, and The theory of change for the CSA approach: a guide to evidence-based implementation at the country level Tags: climate smart, Agriculture, Gender, smallholder farmers, Food Security, Source: https://www.fao.org/climate-smart-agricu
	A legacy of agricultural transformation. Information and Knowledge CTA (2022) CC Open external link (187) Add to my MEDBOX CTA has played a key role in asking – and answering – critical questions about the future of agriculture and sustainable development in ACP countries. Leveraging its expertise in agricultural knowledge, innovation and technology, the Centre effectively contributed to pushing these issues higher up the policy agenda. Providing information to 79 ACP countries is no mean feat for a relatively small organisation. Nevertheless, CTA has been on the frontline of the communications revolution in creating, sharing and disseminating information, knowledge and learning products to enrich ACP agriculture Tags: Agriculture, resource platform, transformation, digitalisation, Source: https://www.cta.int/en/CTALegacy
	Transforming Food Systems: Regional policy brief United Nations UN (2021) C2 View PDF(48) Download (20) Add to my MEDBOX Analysis on World about Agriculture, Food and Nutrition and more; published on 23 Sep 2021 by ECA, ECLAC and 3 other organizations Tags: Agriculture, food and nutrition, planetary health, sustainable food systems, Source: https://reliefweb.int/report/world/trans
	An agroecological Europe by 2050: What impact on land use, trade and global food security? Schiavo M., Le Mouël C., Poux X., et. al. (2021) C2 View PDF(63) Download (25) Add to my MEDBOX This Study presents the key results of a research that analyses the implications of an ambitious agroecological transition across Europe, following the TYFA scenario. Published in 2018, what it proposes by 2050 is fully aligned with the objectives that the European Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies aim to achieve by 2030, in particular regarding the decrease in pesticides, nitrogen, and antibiotics on the supply side, and the transition towards more plant-based diets on the demand side. Using a world biomass balance model (GlobAgri-AgT), the impact of the TYFA scenario in the EU on world land use, the EU physical trade balance, the provision of calories and global food security is analysed in addition to key policy levers to spur the transition Tags: planetary health, ecology, Food Security, EU, Source: https://www.iddri.org/en/publications-an

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