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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Climate, agriculture and water
  • Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:06:10 -0700


Climate, agriculture and water
http://www.iatp.org/climate/index.php?q=feed/article/climate-agriculture-and-water

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that water
will be particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Effects on
water, whether flooding or drought, inevitably affect agriculture and food
security; and of course agriculture, particularly heavily irrigated
agriculture, affects both water and the climate. These interconnections are
the subject of a new IATP issue brief by Shiney Varghese.

The paper looks at the critical importance of rain-fed crops on food security
in developing countries around the world, and the role of industrial
agriculture and its intensive water use on the environment. The paper calls
for agriculture-based climate strategies to include water efficiency,
ecosystem and socioeconomic impact assessments. In addition, climate
proposals should support the Right to Food and the Right to Water for people
to meet basic needs, prioritize water availability and support a host of
sustainable water management tools including organic matter management,
rainwater harvesting, small-scale water storage, community-based irrigation
and water maintenance for grazers and small-holder livestock.

You can read the full issue brief here.
http://www.iatp.org/climate/index.php?q=document/eye-of-the-storm-integrated-solutions-to-the-climat






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