Containing a wealth of up-to-date research and examples, this booklet highlights the ‘cause and effect’ relationship between agriculture and climate change. Crucially it observes that a range of practices – ‘climate-smart agriculture’ – could increase food production, help farmers to become more resilient to global warming and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

 Accorder une meilleure place à l’agriculture dans les négociations sur le changement climatique comme dans l’élaboration des différentes politiques nationales, c’est garantir que l’agriculture contribue pleinement aux efforts d’adaptation et d’atténuation, tout en évitant de porter préjudice à la production alimentaire et à la lutte contre la pauvreté.

Bringing together discussions and outcomes from CTA’s annual seminar 2010, this compilation also reports on other activities that took place during CTA/NPCA week.

Synthèse d’un séminaire, Johannesburg (Afrique du Sud), 2010
Rassemblant les discussions et les résultats du séminaire annuel 2010 du CTA, cette synthèse relate aussi d’autres activités qui ont eu lieu lors de la semaine CTA/NPCA.

This volume is both opportune and important. The issue of the links between globalization, agriculture and development need urgently to be emphasised in a world economy transfixed by issues of energy, industry and finance, the problems of the triad states, and the rise of the BRICs. The chapters in this volume begin this task through studies of agricultural change in Asia-Pacific countries, including Australia, New Zealand, the ASEAN nations, India and China. They show the uneven impacts of liberalization, contracting, and modernization that bring social change in their wake.

This book explores the interaction between climate change and the agriculture sector. Agriculture is essential to the livelihood of people and nations, especially in the developing world; therefore, any impact on it will have significant economic, social, and political ramifications.

Costa Rica’s pioneering programme of payments for environmental services (PES) which began in the 1990s was a unique experiment in developing countries at that time. Under the PES programme, economic recognition of forests moved from a ‘timber-only’ approach to a wider concept of ecosystem services that feeds directly into human and industrial functions of production or consumption.

It follows that, for effective and efficient communication, people should have, or at least understand, the same precise terminology. Such terminology is crucial for the advancement of basic, theoretical, and applied science, yet too often there is ambiguity between scientific and common definitions and even discrepancies in the scientific literature.

The new edition of Arid Zone Geomorphology aims to encapsulate the advances that have been made in recent years in the investigation and explanation of landforms and geomorphological processes in drylands.

The dry forests and woodlands of Sub-Saharan Africa are major ecosystems, with a broad range of strong economic and cultural incentives for keeping them intact.

This full-colour publication highlights 25 promising African plants, a selection from 10 years PROTA programme. 

This list forms the skeleton of the PROTA databank, being a checklist of the useful plants of tropical Africa.

Cette liste constitue la charpente de la banque de données PROTA à savoir la liste de référence des plantes utiles de l’Afrique tropicale.