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This policy document discusses the development of bioenergy and both opportunities and risks for food security. It highlights that it could revitalise the agriculture sector, foster rural development and alleviate poverty, not least by improving rural access to sustainable energy. But if not managed sustainably, it could seriously threaten food security, hindering access to food for some of the most vulnerable.

This policy document stresses that climate change and expanding biofuel production is likely to lead to greater competition for access to land. For the millions of farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk and forest dwellers with no formal land tenure rights, this increased competition poses a tremendous threat to their livelihoods. The document argues that sound land tenure policies and planning is crucial to ensuring that these men and women do not fall into even greater hardship.

This policy document presents major climate change threats to fisheries and aquaculture. These include higher water temperatures, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, changes in ocean salinity and acidity, more cyclones in some areas, less rain in others, shifting patterns and abundance of fish stocks. The document underlines that climate change compromises the sustainability and productivity of a key economic and environmental resource, but it also presents opportunities, especially in aquaculture.

This policy document highlights that natural disasters are on the increase, with the prospect of more frequent and more severe occurrences fuelled by global warming. In emergencies, it is the most vulnerable – the poor, elderly, women and children – who suffer the most from hunger and deprivation. Disaster risk management plays an increasingly key role in dealing with the effects of climate change on food security. 

This policy document stresses that climate change is creating favourable conditions for animal and plant pests and diseases in new areas as well as changing the way they are transmitted. This threatens food security and rural livelihoods across the globe. The document argues that strengthening cooperation and early detection is needed to face these challenges.

This policy document discusses the impact of climate change on water resources and, consequently, food security. It argues that these impacts will vary tremendously from place to place. It is expected that elevated temperatures will benefit agriculture in the northern latitudes, while large parts of the arid and semi-arid tropics will face declining rainfall and runoff . This is an ominous trend for the mostly food-insecure countries located there. After presenting the current situation and future perspectives, the document analyses five key policy responses.

This policy document highlights that climate change will be an important driver of genetic erosion in the future. It will both threaten the survival of individual species and affect the way different elements of biodiversity interact in food and agriculture ecosystems. It discusses adaptation and mitigation options in this context and the involvement of farmers and rural communities. 

This policy document briefly discusses climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors. It stresses that mitigation alone is not enough, as global warming is already underway, and adaptation strategies are now a matter of urgency. After introducing the main issues, the document presents successful approaches and possible measures to promote adaptation.

This activity report presents the features and outcomes of a training program on climate forecast application in agriculture in Bangladesh. The overall objectives of the training is to share and learn various issues of Climate Change related issues relating to adaptation approaches and climate forecast applications that would help better manage of the climatic risks in agriculture and allied sectors in the country. 

The activity report presents the features and the outcomes of a climate change adaptation training program conducted in Bangladesh. Through this training the local level officials and operational professionals were given orientation on the major issues and themes of climate change, adaptation and its linkages with overall risk management through systematic adaptation process.

This technical document provides a compilation of tools targeted at decision-makers at regional, national or local levels in countries facing strategic decisions in developing a modern bioenergy sector. The publication classifies the tools on the basis of their relevance to different assessment steps of the value chain of sustainable bioenergy production and use. The main advantages of the different tools, as well as the difficulties to which they may be subject, are evaluated.

This analytical report aims to facilitate access to financing for bioenergy for sustainable development at the project, programme and sectoral level in developing countries. It intends to provide a comprehensive tool for use by national governments and project developers when assessing different financing opportunities for bioenergy projects and programmes, giving a clear picture of selection criteria and bioenergy project characteristics that should be fulfilled to receive these financing.

This analytical report addresses land tenure in natural disasters in Mozambique, Bangladesh, Philippines and Ecuador. The analysis carried out in this publication aims to improve understanding of land tenure in the context of natural disasters, and to foster more analysis and data collection to better assess the relationships between natural disasters and land tenure at national and local levels, especially in those countries that are prone to natural hazards.

This manual discusses why land tenure is important and identifies land issues that may arise following a natural disaster. It argues that improving land tenure security and protecting access to land reduce the risk of future disasters to all landholders, and in particular the most vulnerable sections of the community. It also advocates that land tenure should be considered in all stages of Disaster Risk Management and associated projects.

This analytical report  aims to raise awareness of key government and humanitarian actors on the importance of addressing land tenure issues in natural disasters. The document contains six briefs on: Bangladesh, Ecuador, Honduras, Indonesia, Mozambique, and the Philippines. Each country brief conveys information allowing to better understand the key role of secure land tenure and access when dealing with natural disasters vulnerability of the poor, women and men.

This manual includes guidelines to address land issues from the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster through early recovery and reconstruction phases. It takes an inter-disciplinary approach to land, bringing together humanitarian emergency relief and early recovery perspectives. Throughout the text, readers find many short cases illustrating practical aspects of bringing land issues into the post-disaster recovery process. Tools and other useful references are also included.

This module discusses the linkage between climate change and development. In this context, the agriculture sector is part of solution to cope with climate change and can be remunerated through climate change funds. Its impacts can be appraised through the carbon balance appraisal thank to some tools and methodology.

This technical document presents and analyses the impact of climate change on inland fishery and aquaculture in Africa. Though precise consequences cannot yet be defined, three main pathways of climate change impact are outlined, affecting fisheries and aquaculture, their dependent communities and their economic activities: direct physical (e.g. flooding, severe droughts), biological and ecological (e.g. productivity of lakes and rivers), and indirect wider social and economic (e.g. fresh water use conflicts).

This technical document briefly discusses how to assess vulnerability of fishermen and fish farming communities. Such knowledge is needed to enhance the ability to target adaptation. Possible pathways for adaptation and mitigation are also introduced. The final sections analyse potential funding sources for adaptation in inland fisheries and aquaculture and present activities already in place.

This technical document intends to provide an overview of the current available knowledge on the possible impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture. It includes three papers. The first addresses climate variability and change and their physical and ecological consequences on marine and freshwater environments. The second tackles the consequences of climate change impacts on fishers and their communities and reviews possible adaptation and mitigation measures that could be implemented. The third addresses specifically the impacts of climate change on aquaculture and reviews possible adaptation and mitigation measures that could be implemented.