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New EC Briefing for Non-Experts on Climate Change: It’s a Mad, Mad World

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Voices & Views

When it comes to climate change, it’s a mad, mad world. That’s the message from a new EC-commissioned e-booklet, which uses the abbreviation “MAD” to outline a strategic framework for combating global warning: Mitigation...

Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
Energy
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Environment & green economy
Forests

Making Farmers Part of the Climate Change Solution

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Voices & Views

To date, the agricultural sector, as a net green house gas producer, has largely been seen as part of the climate change problem. But Dr Alex De Pinto of the International Food Policy Research Institute wants to see farmers become...

Agriculture & Rural Development
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
+3
Environment & green economy
Fisheries
Forests

Ancient Practices with Modern Value

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Voices & Views

The roaming farming practices of nomadic pastoralists may appear to have altered little in hundreds of years, but in today’s unpredictable age of climate change these ancient practices may hold the key to flexible farming in...

Agriculture & Rural Development
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
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Culture
Environment & green economy
Fisheries
Food & Nutrition Security
Forests

Farming and Agriculture: Looking Out for the Little Guy

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Voices & Views

Current perceptions of agriculture are too limited, according to expert Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, who would like to see donors embrace and harness the resilience and adaptability of small scale farmers. Donors should not overlook...

Agriculture & Rural Development
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
+3
Environment & green economy
Fisheries
Forests