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Food security and agriculture

Activities aimed to ensure access to and availability of adequate food supplies and the preservation of agricultural livelihoods under the pressures of climate hazards and food chains threats.

Latest Food security & agriculture additions in the Knowledge Base

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Documents and publications

Flood risk assessment and adaptation under changing climate for the agricultural system in the Ghanaian White Volta Basin

This study aims to assess flood risk (in space and time until the year 2100) for the agricultural system, in the White Volta Basin in northern Ghana.
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As El Niño bites, Indonesians grapple with record-high rice prices

El Niño's dry weather has hit Indonesian rice supplies causing record price rises for consumers and crop failures for farmers.
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Research briefs

A global map of how climate change is changing winegrowing regions

INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux and Université de Bourgogne have analysed trends to come in current and developing winegrowing regions around the world to adapt wine production to climate change.
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
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Flood impacts on agriculture under climate change: The case of the Awanui catchment, New Zealand

The study assess the economic and environmental impacts on agriculture of flooding under projected climate change, including land-use change as an adaption response to floods. The case study area is the Awanui catchment in the far north of New Zealand.
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Climate change and transboundary risks in African rangelands

This report, and accompanying brief, align current thinking on transboundary climate risk pathways with research on climate risk for pastoralists in African rangelands.
Woman at a fruit market in Africa.
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Food prices will climb everywhere as temperatures rise due to climate change – new research

Climate change may cause food prices to increase by 3.2% per year, according to a new study by researchers in Germany. As climate change continues to worsen, this price inflation will mean more and more people don’t have enough food.
Conversation Media Group, the
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West Africa heatwave was supercharged by climate crisis, study finds

The most severe heat occurred from 11 to 15 February, with temperatures peaking above 40C and averaging 36C. Humidity was also high, making it harder for people to cool down by sweating.
Guardian, the (UK)
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Local fruit and vegetable markets in Fiji are feeling the impacts of flooding across the country

This podcast tackles how flooding in Fiji is having flow-on effects on markets and the availability of some fruit and vegetables across the country.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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