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This book offers perspective on climate change impacts on developing nations from scholars within those nations, primarily focusing on agriculture. Throughout three parts containing a total of over twenty chapters from scholars in developing countries, it aims to offer guidelines for researchers, policymakers, and farmers themselves on how developing countries can achieve sustainable food security and continue development on a sustainable basis.Part I covers climate change concepts and issues for developing countries; Part II offers chapters dealing with social issues surrounding climate change and agriculture; Part III addresses practical policies that can be implemented to work toward achieving the goals described above. Agriculture is a key sector in developing countries in terms of economic growth and social well-being. Adapting and building resilience to climate change means increasing agricultural productivity and incomes and reducing greenhouse gases emissions. This volume represents an effort toward collecting knowledge on the technical, policy and investment measures to achieve sustainable agricultural growth in the sectors of grain, fruit, vegetable, fiber, feed, livestock, fisheries and forest under climate change in one place.

Sécurité alimentaire, emplois, transition écologique des modes de production et de consommation... L'agro-écologie pourrait être l'une des solutions pour répondre aux défis à venir de l'humanité. Inscrite dans les 17 Objectifs du développement durable, elle nécessite un engagement de tous. Pour satisfaire les besoins alimentaires et économiques des communautés rurales et urbaines en croissance, répondre à des consommateurs de plus en plus exigeants, préserver les ressources naturelles et s'adapter au changement climatique, il devient urgent de produire différemment.Au cours des dix dernières années, le Cirad et l'AFD ont conduit des expériences de transition agro-écologique avec les producteurs, chercheurs, professionnels du développement et décideurs de nombreux pays du Sud. Ils livrent leurs réflexions sur l'avenir de l'agro-écologie comme moyen pour les agricultures du Sud de s'adapter aux changements globaux et analysent les conditions de réussite de la transition agro-écologique. The English version of this book, The agroecological transition of agricultural systems in the Global South, is available on our website.La version anglaise de ce titre, The agroecological transition of agricultural systems in the Global South, est disponible sur notre site.

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This book is about climate change and its relation to agriculture and rural livelihoods. It starts by providing a basic understanding of climate change science followed by the relation of climate change to agriculture, the impact of which is discussed based on the particular impact of climate change on plant and animal physiology. The book further discusses the inclusion of the agriculture sector in various international climate change negotiations. It also reviews the cost and opportunities for agricultural projects through international climate change regimes, specifically the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol. With this background, the book finally proceeds to an explanation of the methodologies used to assess the impact of climate change on agriculture and empirically discusses its impact on agriculture and rural livelihoods in Nepal.

Pour la Banque mondiale, l'appui aux OP est une dimension incontournable des nouvelles politiques en faveur de l'agriculture et se justifie pour au moins deux raisons : les OP sont conçues comme une composante importante de la société civile, en mesure de faire pression pour améliorer la gouvernance du secteur agricole ; elles sont aussi un acteur possible de la mise en œuvre des politiques. Beaucoup de gouvernements ont aujourd'hui compris tout l'intérêt qu'ils avaient à pouvoir disposer d'interlocuteurs crédibles pour concevoir et mettre en œuvre des politiques agricoles et rurales.Ce contexte favorable aux dynamiques d'organisation des producteurs ne doit pas cacher les faiblesses et les difficultés qu'elles rencontrent. L'accès à des ressources financières stabilisées, l'accès à l'information et aux connaissances, l'accès à des ressources humaines de qualité restent encore difficiles pour de nombreuses OP donc les capacités de gestion et d'organisation sont encore parfois perfectibles. L'appui aux OP constitue donc un enjeu important dans l'accompagnement des transformations de l'agriculture pour les pays du Sud et les partenaires de la coopération au développement.

This book explores the interaction between climate change and the agriculture sector. Agriculture is essential to the livelihood of people and nations, especially in the developing world; therefore, any impact on it will have significant economic, social, and political ramifications. Scholars from around the world and from various fields have been brought together to explore this important topic. The contributions found here analyze direct agronomic effects, the economic impacts on agriculture, agricultural impacts on the economy, agricultural mitigation, and farmer adaptation. The authors argue that climate change is likely to have an extensive impact on agriculture around the world through changes in temperature, precipitation, concentrations of carbon dioxide, and available water flows. This thorough and timely volume is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploring the impacts of climate change in arguably the most important sector of the world economy. Economists, agronomists, and climate modelers in academia and the public sector, policy analysts and development agency staff, and graduate/postgraduate students will find this remarkable volume a welcome addition to their collection.

Despite its great importance, there are surprisingly few economic studies of the impact of climate on agriculture and how agriculture can adapt under a variety of conditions. This book examines 22 countries across four continents, including both developed and developing economies. It provides both a good analytical basis for additional work and solid results for policy debate concerning income distributional effects such as abatement, adaptation, and equity. Agriculture and grazing are a central sector in the livelihood of many people, particularly in developing countries. This book uses the Ricardian method to examine the impact of climate change on agriculture. It also quantifies how farmers adapt to climate. The findings suggest that agriculture in developing countries is more sensitive to climate than agriculture in developed countries. Rain-fed cropland is generally more sensitive to warming than irrigated cropland and cropland is more sensitive than livestock. The adaptation to climate change results reveal that farmers make many adjustments including switching crops and livestock species, adopting irrigation, and moving between livestock and crops. The results also reveal that impacts and adaptations vary a great deal across landscapes, suggesting that adaptation policies must be location specific. Finally, the book suggests a research agenda for the future.Economists in academia and the public sector, policy analysts and development agencies will find this broad study illuminating.

The World Bank has, over the past two years, revisited its rural development strategy and in turn developed a new one, through a renewed commitment to sound development in the rural sector, and seeks to encompass farmers and their communities alike, as well as policymakers. This report gathers applied and practical research related to agriculture and the environment in the developing world, summarizing current knowledge through specific examples, stating the approaches and conditions which worked or not, and the reasons for failure. The observations and findings suggest that environmentally sound increases in productivity will be harder to achieve than in the past, though a significant potential for attaining these increases do exist. To this end, reforms are necessary, so that policy and institutional frameworks support an intensified sustainable agriculture, conducive to an environment that gives way to technological innovation. The authors in this report, review subjects from, integrating environmental concerns in rural development policies, natural resources degradation, small-farmer decisionmaking, to agricultural trade reforms, research initiatives, property regimes, etc. Institutional and social perspectives, together with technical issues and perspectives are also analyzed through various subjects in this volume.