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The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security
… 136 © R eu te rs /R od i S ai d Heavily reliant on weather, climate, land, and water for its ability to thrive, … such as climate and market volatility, pests and diseases, extreme weather events, and an ever-increasing number of … tropical, extra-tropical and convective); wildfires; extreme temperatures; biological disasters (epidemics, …
Pastoralism and the Green Economy - a natural nexus?
… as long- range movements or remaining productive under extreme climate stress. Pastoralism and its associated … such as long-range movements or remaining productive under extreme climate stress. Most global assessments of … insurance instruments offer potential to mitigate weather- related risks, but these require strong partnerships …
Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values
… agrobiodiversity is an insurance against disease and extreme climatic f luctuations, as a coping mechanism in … reducing the ability of human communities to survive extreme weather conditions or crop disease, lowering breeding …
The economic lives of smallholder farmers - An analysis based on household data from nine countries
… and which is also subject to many risks, such as adverse weather and price surges. And this has significant … the Green Revolution and a share of its people experience extreme poverty and hunger. Paradoxically, Africa has been …
International trade rules and the agriculture sector: selected implementation issues
… and wars, or naturally occurring ones such as bad weather, diseases or pests. Sanitary and phytosanitary … an average and masks very wide variations among countries; extreme examples would be Japan with agricultural exports … and from the EU on the other appear to represent the two extreme positions and most others fall somewhere in between. …
Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.
… (j) report cases of handicapped, destitute, and of extreme poverty to the Union Administration; (k) mobilize the … of the handicapped, destitute, widows and families in extreme poverty; (d) establishment of farming, marketing and … of this act: (b) the covered area of any plot, weather residential or commercial, shall not exceed one-third …