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The Challenge of Climate change for Agriculture and Food Security, Symposium, Bern, Switzerland, 16 April 2010
Symposium Documents
The Challenge of Climate change for Agriculture and Food Security,
Facts and Figures (
2887 kb)
Prof. Jürg Fuhrer, ART, Air Pollution and Climate, Reckenholz, Zurich, Switzerland
The impact of climate change on African agriculture:
Options for building resilience ( 1427 kb)
Dr. Joan Cuka Kagwanja, Policy Officer, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Nairobi, Kenya
Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GHG) and the specific role of Livestock in GHG mitigation ( 593 kb)
Prof. Michael Kreuzer, ETH Zurich, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
Introduction to the Workshops: Technical, policy and financing responses across agriculture, food security and climate change ( 279 kb)
Mrs. Wendy Mann, Senior Adviser, Natural Resources Management and Environment Department FAO, Rome, Italy
Introduction to Workshop 2: Drivers of Change and the Role of Livestock in Climate Change ( 1361 kb)
Fritz Schneider, SHL, Zollikofen, Switzerland
Report on Workshop 1: Farming practices for climate change mitigation and adaptation ( 28 kb)
Facilitator: Markus Giger, CDE, Bern, Switzerland
Report on Workshop 2: The role of livestock in climate change: current knowledge and open questions ( 30 kb)
Facilitator: Fritz Schneider, SHL, Zollikofen, Switzerland
Report on Workshop 3: The ecological footprint and sustainable consumption
( 52 kb)
Facilitators: Jürg Heldstab / Myriam Steinemann, INFRAS, Zurich, Switzerland
Background reading
Food Security and Agricultural Mitigation in Developing Countries: Options for Capturing Synergies ( 702 kb)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), October 2009
Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation
Changement climatique: Impact sur l’agriculture et coûts de l’adaptation
Gerald C. Nelson et al., International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), October 2009
Farming and Land Use to Cool the Planet ( 380 kb)
Sara J. Scherr and Sajal Sthapit in: 2009 State of the World - Into a Warming World, Worldwatch Institute, 2009, Chapter 3, p.30-49
„THG 2020“ – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen zur Vermeidung landwirtschaftlicher Treibhausgase in der Schweiz ( 1051 kb)
Simon Peter, Michael Hartmann, Michael Weber, Bernard Lehmann, Werner Hediger. ETH Zürich, März 2009
The State of Food and Agriculture 2009, Livestock in the balance
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2009
Livestock and climate change ( 291 kb)
Jeannette van de Steeg, An Notenbaert, Mario Herrero, Philip Thornton in: Rural 21 – 06/2009, p.19-21
Croppers to livestock keepers: livelihood transitions to 2050 in Africa due to climate change ( 719 kb)
Peter G. Jones, Philip K. Thornton in: Environmental Science & Policy 12 (2009) 427-437
Livestock and climate change ( 1447 kb)
Livestock Thematic Papers. International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), November 2009
Kartoffel und Klimawandel ( 319 kb)
Pommes de terre et changement climatique ( 312 kb)
Potatoes and Climate Change ( 310 kb)
InfoResources Focus No 1/08. InfoResources, 2008
ICTSD-IPC Platform on Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade:
Promoting Policy Coherence ( 227 kb)
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC)
ICTSD-IPC Platform on Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade:
Research and Analysis
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