Agriculture in many developing countries, where productivity is already low, will be greatly affected by a changing climate. Farmers will have to adapt if they are going to maintain an income and food security for their families and communities.
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This paper outlines how new technology, such as GIS, wireless broadband and sensor networks, can be used in developing countries to tackle climate change issues. The author, Stan Karanasios, of the AIMTech Research Group, at the University of Leeds,...
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The UNEP project, Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA4C) for climate change, was set up to provide guidance to governments preparing climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. In this paper for MCA4C, Günther Fischer of the International Institute...
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This report looks at the potential role that information and communication technologies (ICTs) play at different stages of the process of climate change. Such roles range from contributing to global warming, to monitoring it and mitigating its impact on the most vulnerable parts of the globe.
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This paper looks at how vulnerable communities around the globe can use ICTs to share information on reducing the risks of climate change. The authors, Patrick P. Kalas of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Alan Finlay of Open Research,...
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Climate change and related stressors are posing an increasing challenge to livelihoods in low-income communities. Those communities need to develop the capacity to adapt to climate change by learning how to cope with short-term shocks and long-term trends.
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Effective disaster response demands rapid access to reliable and accurate data – and the capacity to assess, analyse and integrate information from varied sources. ICTs can obviously help, and this paper focuses on the role they have in reducing the impacts of acute climate-related events.
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