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Facing the challenges of climate change and food security : the role of research, extension and communication for development

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Facing the challenges of climate change and food security : the role of research, extension and communication for development / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Publication
  • [Rome, Italy?] : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013.
  • ©2013

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Additional Authors
  • Preissing, John
  • Leeuwis, Cees.
  • Hall, Andy (Researcher in agriculture and economics)
  • Weperen, W. van.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Description
ix, 38 pages : illustrations; 30 cm.
Summary
The report is based on case studies from Bangladesh (Sulaiman, 2010), Bolivia (Pafumi and Ulloa, 2010), DR Congo (Mbaye, 2010) and Ghana (Adjei-Nsiah and Dormon, 2010) which were carried out with the purpose of assessing needs and gaps with regard to the provision of innovation support services for climate change adaptation. It took the form of desk-studies complemented with key informant interviews. Research results showed that climate change adds urgency to the need for adaptation in its widest sense in the natural resources sphere (agriculture, forestry, natural resources management, livestock and fisheries). The main message from the study is that not only is technical change for farm-level adaptation and mitigation needed, but also a change of policy and institutional regimes that govern agricultural production, value chains and natural resource management. Publisher's note.
Series Statement
Occasional papers on innovation in family farming
Uniform Title
Occasional papers on innovation in family farming
Subject
  • Food security
  • Climatic changes
  • Climate Change
  • climate change
  • food security
  • climatic change
  • rural development
  • diffusion of information
  • communication
  • resource management
  • developing countries
  • Ernährungssicherstellung
  • Klimaänderung
Note
  • Based on a study carried out by Cees Leeuwis (Wageningen University) and Andy Hall (UNI-MERIT), text revision Willem van Weperen, edited by John Preissing.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 25-29)
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available in an electronic version.
Contents
Introduction -- Climate change adaptation as a metaphor for the future -- Summary of the conceptual framework : the role of research, extension and communication in climate change adaptation -- Lessons from the case studies -- Contours for a new positioning for agriculture innovation support services -- Annex 1 : Conceptual framework : the changing role of extension, communication and research.
ISBN
  • 9789251077375
  • 9251077371
  • 9789251077382 (canceled/invalid)
  • 925107738X (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2012361430
OCLC
  • ocn857900627
  • 857900627
  • SCSB-1757500
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library