Background paper prepared for The Hague Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change on behalf of the CGIAR by the Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP).
 

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This paper reviews the state of current scientific knowledge on the links between climate change, agriculture and food security, in terms of anticipating impacts, managing climate variability and risks, accelerating adaptation to progressive climate change, and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector...