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How to do: Measuring climate resilience

HOWTODOiFAD This How To Do Note is intended as a tool for IFAD staff and partners involved in investment projects with climate resilience objectives. It answers the question: How do I apply the concept of 'climate resilience' in an IFAD-supported investment project and how can I measure it?
This question is particularly relevant for (i) Projects which are implemented in locations or sectors that are vulnerable to climate-related threats and integrate specific actions to reduce climate-related risks and vulnerabilities, (ii) Projects which integrate funding from environmental or climate finance sources to advance climate change adaptation objectives. Read the full document HERE

Les résultats de recherches d’Agropolis sur le changement climatique : impacts et adaptations

imageagropolis Le 20ème numéro des dossiers d’Agropolis International est consacré aux impacts et aux adaptations aux changements climatiques. Les thématiques suivantes sont développées : (i) Changement climatique & ressources, territoires et développement ; (ii) Changement climatique & biodiversité et écosystèmes ; (iii) Changement climatique & interactions entre organismes (iv) Changement climatique & systèmes de production agricole et d’élevage. L’ensemble confirme l’intérêt de développer des démarches intégrées, depuis les dimensions de la biologie fonctionnelle jusqu’aux approches à des échelles territoriales, en s’appuyant largement à la fois sur les observations, l’expérimentation et la modélisation, de façon à nous donner une meilleure intelligibilité des processus en cours et à agir avec discernement pour les limiter et s’y adapter.

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Strategies for Combating Climate Change in Drylands Agriculture

This report (here) a synthesis of dialogues and evidence presented at the International Conference on Food Security in Dry Lands, Doha, Qatar, November, 2012. The aim of this report is to examine the problem of changing climate patterns in dry land areas and its effect on rural populations and offer some practical solutions, as input the Conference of Conference of the Parties (COP18) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It has been prepared to inform government policy makers and agricultural planners in dryland countries, and development partners,

Book Reviews: Climate Change and Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

These volumes are primarily concerned with the potential impact of climate change on agriculture in West and Southern Africa, respectively, and how this may be minimized through careful planning based on accurate foresight analysis. A third volume, dealing with East Africa is due to be published on 3rd December 2013 (also available from the IFPRI website. Climate change, it may be argued, is the most significant threat to agriculture and, therefore, food security, worldwide. Drought, one of the most important consequences of climate change, already places severe constraints on agricultural productivity throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and in some countries of the region the effects have already reached crisis point, notably in the Horn of Africa, to be dealt with in the third volume. The greenhouse effect, it is predicted, will raise temperatures yet further and this, together with other factors, will lead to longer and even more severe periods of drought, imposing ever-increasing pressures on the already scarce supplies of that most precious of all commodities in the region, fresh water (see Grayson, 2013 for an excellent recent analysis of the global situation). See full publication here.

Impact du changement climatique sur la saison des pluies en Afrique de l’Ouest : que nous disent les modèles de climat actuels ?

Il s'agit d'un article de Tristan d’Orgeval paru dans la revue Sécheresse Volume 19, Numéro 2, 79-85, avril-mai-juin 2008, dont l’objectif est de déterminer l’impact du changement climatique sur la saison des pluies en Afrique de l’Ouest à partir des GCM (general circulation model, modèles de circulation générale) du projet d’intercomparaison CMIP3 (coupled model intercomparison Project III). Pour cela une caractérisation « dynamique » de la zone de convergence intertropicale (ZCIT) est utilisée.

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