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Climate change threatens food security of urban poor
2013-04-04 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The spectre of widespread hunger could return to haunt some of the worlds largest cities as a result of climate change, a new report warns. It says the combination of rising populations, soaring food prices and uncertain harvests will impact heavily on what it calls the urban poor, who do not have direct access to food. The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) study argues there is too much focus on rural food production and not enough on ensuring poor people can...
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Climate change threatens food security of urban poor Report
2013-03-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GNA: Policies to increase food security in developing countries focus too much on rural food production and not enough on ensuring poor people could access and afford food, especially in urban areas. This is contained in a report published on Thursday by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and made available to the GNA. . It warns that climate change would only make this policy gap worse because climate change impacts would affect not only harvests but also the systems...
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Putting Food Security on the Calendar
2013-03-29 10:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Last October, at the beginning of Indonesia's rainy season, a 37-year-old farmer named Herinurdin took a leap of faith. Instead of planting corn in his entire 1.3-hectare rainfed farm in the Sukabumi town of West Java, as his family had done for generations, he sowed 1,600 square metres worth of rice instead. In November he ploughed another 700 square metres and by December he had seeded the remainder of his land in this densely populated province, some 120 kilometres south of the capital Jakarta....
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Planet organic: achieving sustainable food security and environmental gains
2013-03-19 19:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The global farmland area certified organic has expanded more than threefold to 37 million hectares since 1999, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute. The Institute argues that organic farming has the potential to contribute to sustainable food security by improving nutrition intake and sustaining rural livelihoods, while reducing vulnerability to climate change and enhancing biodiversity. "Organic farming is now established in international standards, and 84 countries...
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Food security: Agriculture groups shore up financing for seed banks to help farmers adapt to climate change
2013-02-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The DNA of the world's food crops just got a little more secure. Two leading agricultural organizations, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and CGIAR (formerly known as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) Consortium, have agreed to invest $109 million over the next five years in the world's seed banks, which maintain 706,000 samples of seeds and vegetative material. Most of the funds will go into maintenance and regular operations in the seed banks at 11 CGIAR research...
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