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… Agriculture Impact Study Group coordinated by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI, India) and the Center … to climate change and reducing resilience in the agricultural sector. The negative impacts of climate change … large north-south asymmetries in the forcing and large land-sea contrasts. Since these are the driving forces for …

… Environment Programme of age; nutrient over-enrichment of land and water is causing shifts in ecosystems and loss of … permafrosts. 1.2 Land and soil pollution product of poor agricultural practices, dumping of waste from households, … degrade soil biodiversity and functioning, and can reduce agricultural productivity, thus negatively impacting …

… migration related to temperature change and loss of arable land, increased exposure to insect vectors of disease, and … The 21 POP s belong to three groups: • pesticides used in agricultural applications, for fungus control or for insect … are often related to their former applications in large agricultural areas (Li, 1999; von Waldow et al., 2010). …

… Southeast Asia is particularly confronted with forest and land fires. The worst fires accompanied by smoke haze broke … fires cost the region approximately $9 billion in lost agricultural products, infrastructure repair, reduced tourism … in causing and exacerbating the effects of forest and land fires. The El Niño weather phenomenon interferes with …