This sector note -which has just been finalized- provides detailed advice and practical examples on how to integrate - or "mainstream"- environment and climate change in agriculture, food security and rural development programmes...
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Publication Date: October 2013 This eighth annual report on the partnership between the United Nations and the European Union focuses on the critical field of food and nutrition security. It reflects how the United Nations and the...
Release Date: April 2012 This edition of the Global Environmental Alert Service discusses the end to cheap oil, its impacts on food security, and the need to reduce fossil fuels in agriculture.
Release Date: 28 July 2011 The 4th issue of the UNEP Policy Series on Ecosystem Management focuses on the synergy and trade-offs in ensuring food and ecological security.
Release Date: 9 June 2011 Comprehensive survey of existing scientific knowledge on the anticipated consequences of climate change for water use in agriculture.
Publication Date: 2009 In 2008 food prices surged plunging millions back into hunger and triggering riots from Egypt to Haiti and Cameroon to Bangladesh. I n order to understand the factors underpinning the food crisis and to...
Publication Date: June 2013 About 24 percent of all calories currently produced for human consumption are lost or wasted. This paper examines the implications of this amount of loss and waste, profiles a number of approaches for...