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Managing climatic risks to combat land degradation and enhance food security: Key information needs

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2010.09.019
 
Title Managing climatic risks to combat land degradation and enhance food security: Key information needs
 
Creator Aggarwal, P K
Baethegan, W E
Cooper, P
Gommes, R
Lee, B
Meinke, H
Rathore, L S
Sivakumar, M V K
 
Subject Climate change
 
Description This paper discusses the key information needs to reduce the negative impacts of weather variability and climate change on land degradation and food security, and identifies the opportunities and barriers between the information and services needed. It suggests that vulnerability assessments based on a livelihood concept that includes climate information and key socio-economic variables can overcome the narrow focus of common one-dimensional vulnerability studies. Both current and future climatic risks can be managed better if there is appropriate policy and institutional support together with technological interventions to address the complexities of multiple risks that agriculture has to face. This would require effective partnerships among agencies dealing with meteorological and hydrological services, agricultural research, land degradation and food security issues. In addition a state-of-the-art infrastructure to measure, record, store and disseminate data on weather variables, and access to weather and seasonal climate forecasts at desired spatial and temporal scales would be needed
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7653/1/Procedia%20Environmental%20Sciences_1_305-312_2010.pdf
Aggarwal, P K and Baethegan, W E and Cooper, P and Gommes, R and Lee, B and Meinke, H and Rathore, L S and Sivakumar, M V K (2010) Managing climatic risks to combat land degradation and enhance food security: Key information needs. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 1. pp. 305-312. ISSN 1878-0296