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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2010
    Bolivia

    El documento explica y analiza los impactos de los cambios climáticos en Sudamérica reflejados en el retroceso de los glaciares, la agricultura. los ecosistemas, la salud y las iniciativas de mitigación existentes en la región.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2011
    Haiti

    Juste après le tremblement de terre, en janvier 2010, la GTZ a lancé en Haïti un projet d'aide alimentaire d'urgence avec plusieurs partenaires. En l'espace d'un mois, environ 1 000 tonnes de vivres ont été distribuées. L'article rend compte de cette expérience et décrit les facteurs qui revêtent une importance décisive pour le succès d'une telle opération.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2010
    Global

    L?élevage et la commercialisation d?animaux utiles permettent d?assurer quotidiennement la subsistance de plus d?un milliard de personnes. Mais aussi essentiels qu?ils soient pour l?alimentation, le revenu et la santé, ces systèmes d?élevage tropicaux peuvent autant altérer qu?améliorer les ressources en terres et en eau et génèrent, comme tous les systèmes d?élevage partout dans le monde, des gaz à effet de serre, qui contribuent au réchauffement climatique.

  4. Library Resource
    Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People cover image
    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2010
    Global

    Continuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years. Growing competition for land, water, and energy, in addition to the overexploitation of fisheries, will affect our ability to produce food, as will the urgent requirement to reduce the impact of the food system on the environment. The effects of climate change are a further threat. But the world can produce more food and can ensure that it is used more efficiently and equitably.

  5. Library Resource
     The environmental food crisis: the environment's role in averting future food crises cover image

    A UNEP rapid response assessment

    Reports & Research
    September, 2010
    Global

    The surge in food prices in the last years, following a century of decline, has been the most marked of the past century in its magnitude, duration and the number of commodity groups whose prices have increased. The ensuing crisis has resulted in a 50–200% increase in selected commodity prices, driven 110 million people into poverty and added 44 million more to the undernourished.

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