The UNITAR Climate Change ProgrammeThe mission of the UNITAR Climate Change Programme (CCP) is to enhance the capacity of government and civil society representatives in the developing world to assist developing countries improve their participation in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and their adaptation process. More about CCP at UNITAR...
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Agriculture and climate change
Climate change’s impact on agriculture is strong and leads to severe human costs, including migration, malnutrition and extreme poverty. It is therefore fundamental to find proper adaptation measures in order to strengthen food security worldwide. The problems encountered are diverse and UNITAR’s CCP programme, thru its ACCCA project, helped the implementation of diverse adaptation pilot actions for agriculture.
In Bangladesh, the adaptation processes in water logged area were hydroponics (see picture), duck rearing and ring-based vegetable cultivation and in saline prone area, adaptation processes were mat weaving by reed, reed cultivation, crab cultivation, sheep rearing and Kewra cultivation. For more information... |
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