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Damage and loss
This collection introduces the concept of "loss and damage" caused by climate change-related effects. It is focused on the agriculture sector and the environmental aspects.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Loss and damage and agrifood systems
- PDF Climate Finance for Addressing Loss and Damage
- PDF Damage and losses due to weather and climate-related disasters in agricultural sectors
- Website Data and Digital Maturity for Disaster Risk Reduction: Informing the Next Generation of Disaster Loss and Damage Databases
- PDF FAO’s methodology for damage and loss assessment in agriculture
- Website Introduction to loss and damage
- Website Measuring Disaster Crop Production Losses Using Survey Microdata Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
- PDF Notes on an information system on damage and losses from disasters in agriculture, fisheries and forestry
- PDF The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security: 2021
- Website Using FAO methodology to compute Damage and Loss
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Overview of FAO's work on climate change
This collection provides a general overview of FAO's work on climate change at the global, regional and national level.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Adaptation in the agriculture sectors: leveraging co-benefits for mitigation and sustainable development
- Website Addressing agricultural sector open burning: Results and lessons learned from the climate and clean air coalition no-burn alternative ...
- PDF Climate change and the global dairy cattle sector
- PDF FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022-2031 - COUNCIL Hundred and Seventieth Session 13-17 June 2022
- PDF FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031
- PDF FAO in Latin America and the Caribbean 2019
- PDF FAO in the Philippines: Delivering for impact
- PDF FAO’s work on Climate Change. Fisheries, Aquaculture and Climate Change: The role of fisheries and aquaculture in the implementation of the Paris ...
- PDF FAO’s work on climate change: Fisheries & aquaculture 2019
- PDF FAO’s work on climate change: United Nations Climate Change Conference 2019
- PDF Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- PDF Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment
- PDF Action Plan for the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022-2031
- PDF Tackling climate change through rural women’s empowerment
- PDF The state of agricultural commodity markets: Agricultural trade, climate change and food security
- PDF The work of FAO to enhance national capacities to report on climate change , agriculture, forestry and other land use
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Mitigating climate change through agriculture
The agriculture sector contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions but can also contribute to global mitigation efforts. Studies to inform policy are presented in this collection.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Achieving transformational change in land use and climate change
- Website AgLED Resource Platform
- Website Agriculture Methodology
- PDF Climate change mitigation
- PDF Climate change mitigation options in agrifood systems
- PDF Comunidades rurales bajas en carbono: Aumentando la resiliencia y mitigando el cambio climático para el desarrollo rural: una experiencia en Honduras
- Website Enhancing climate change mitigation through agriculture
- PDF How can agrifood trade support climate change mitigation?
- PDF Low carbon rural communities: Enhancing resilience and mitigating climate change for rural development: one experience in Honduras
- Website Policy strategies and challenges for climate change mitigation in the Agriculture, Forestry and other Land Use (AFOLU) sector
- Website Revising Public Agricultural Support to Mitigate Climate Change
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Tools for greenhouse gas assessments
A series of tools and databases to support countries in assessing GHG emissions and removals from the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector through useful tools.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website AFOLU Carbon Calculator
- Website Agriculture and Land Use national Greenhouse Gas Inventory software (ALU)
- Website Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Mitigation Option Tool
- Website Collect Earth
- Website Cool Farm Tool
- Website EPA. 2020. U.S. EPA Toolkit for Building National GHG Inventory Systems
- Website EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT)
- PDF EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT) for value chains
- PDF EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool for value chains
- PDF EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool | EX-ACT
- PDF Emissions due to agriculture: Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
- Website Emissions overview
- PDF Estimating GHG emissions and carbon sequestration in agriculture, forestry and other land use with EX-ACT
- PDF Ex-Ante Carbon balance Tool
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions - Agriculture
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions - Land use
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions intensities
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions shares
- Website GLEAM v 3.0 Dashboard
- Website Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM)
- PDF Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM): Model description. version 3.0
- Website Global database of greenhouse gas emissions related to feed crops
- Website Global database of national greenhouse gas inventory capacity in developing countries
- Website IPCC 2020. IPCC Inventory Software
- Website Quality assurance/Quality control (QA/QC) and verification
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Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector
E-learning courses, webinars and various materials to better understand the importance of forest-related topics under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Video Africa, the case of Ghana, developing a multi-purpose NFMS
- Video Asia, the case of Papua New Guinea: its path towards forest transparency
- PDF Boosting transparency of forest data for climate action
- PDF Building Global Capacity to Increase Transparency in the Forest Sector
- PDF Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector
- PDF Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector: One year in numbers
- PDF Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector: Two years in numbers.
- PDF Case Study Chile: The National Forest Monitoring System as part of the National Strategy on Climate Change and Vegetation Resources in Chile
- PDF Case study Bangladesh: An integrated national forest monitoring system for sustainable forest management and conservation in Bangladesh
- PDF Case study Costa Rica: Costa Rica’s progress in developing a national land use, land cover and ecosystems monitoring system
- PDF Case study Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Democratic Republic of the Congo establishes a national forest monitoring system to promote ...
- PDF Case study Ghana: Establishing a multi-purpose national forest monitoring system to improve land use monitoring capacities in Ghana
- PDF Case study Papua New Guinea: National forest monitoring system provides better data, and enhances capacity in Papua New Guinea
- PDF Enhancing forest targets and measures in nationally determined contributions
- Video Establishing and implementing a sustainable National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS): effects on the forest sector of a country
- Video Establishing and implementing sustainable national forest monitoring systems
- Website Forest Data and Transparency 'Zoom in' on the Experience of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Video Forest data and free open-source solutions for Climate Action
- Video Forest data and transparency: ‘Zoom’ in on Costa Rica’s experience”
- Video Forest data for climate action: the importance of legal and institutional frameworks
- Website Forests and transparency under the Paris Agreement
- Video From Measurement, Reporting and Verification to the Reinforced Transparency Framework
- PDF From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- PDF Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
- Video How to prepare for the transition from the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) framework
- Website Institutionalization of forest data
- PDF Inventarios Forestales Nacionales de América Latina y el Caribe: Hacia la armonización de la información forestal.
- Video Latin America, the case of Chile and Costa Rica: transparency, data accuracy, and institutionalization.
- Video Learning from experience to increase forest data transparency for climate action
- PDF Legal assessment to set up and operationalize a national forest monitoring system
- Website Mind the gap: Addressing national forest inventory capacity needs to support climate action
- Video Open And Transparent Forest Data: Innovation And Technology For Climate Action
- Website Open and Transparent: Forest data setting the course for green future under the Paris Agreement
- PDF Strengthening national forest monitoring systems through a comprehensive capacity needs assessment
- PDF Towards open and transparent forest data for climate action
- PDF What is the forest area of Lao People's Democratic Republic?
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Country experiences on nationally appropriate mitigation actions
Country experiences on developing and implementing nationally appropriate mitigation actions: the set of policies and actions that countries undertake as part of their commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website A survey of GHG mitigation policies for the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector
- PDF Improving efficiency of small ruminants productions for reduction of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity
- PDF Reducing emissions intensity and improving natural resources management through livestock in natural grasslands in Uruguay
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Tools for reporting on adaptation under the Enhanced Transparency Framework
A wide variety of methodologies and tools for technical audiences to enhance capacity in reporting on adaptation under the Enhanced Transparency FrameworkThe most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PPT Adaptation M&E toolbox
- PDF Developing national adaptation monitoring and evaluation systems: A guidebook
- PDF FAO’s Damage and Loss Assessment methodology to monitor the Sendai Framework’s Indicator C2 and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
- PDF Framing and tracking 21st century climate adaptation: Monitoring, evaluation and learning for Paris, the SDGs and beyond
- PDF Monitoring and evaluation of adaptation - an introduction
- Website Monitoring and evaluation training package
- PDF Reporting adaptation through the biennial transparency report: A practical explanation of the guidance
- Website Reporting on adaptation in the agriculture and land use sectors under the Paris Agreement: Loss and damage assessment
- PDF Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of Climate Resilience of Farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP)
- PDF Strengthening M&E for adaptation planning in the agriculture sector
- Website Strengthening monitoring and evaluation for adaptation in the agriculture sectors
- Website Strengthening monitoring and evaluation for adaptation in the agriculture sectors
- PDF The Modelling System for Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change (MOSAICC) Tool and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
- PDF The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Adaptation training package and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
- PDF The self-evaluation and holistic assessment of climate resilience of farmers and pastoralists (SHARP) tool and the Enhanced Transparency Framework ...
- PDF Tracking adaptation and measuring development: a step-by-step guide
- PDF Using metrics to assess progress towards the Paris Agreement’s Global Goal on Adaptation
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Cross-cutting topics related to food and agriculture
A wide variety of learning materials and studies for technical audiences including concepts, practices and techniques for food security, systems and production in the context of climate change in food and agriculture.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF "Energy-Smart" food for people and climate
- PDF Actions to transform food systems under climate change
- PDF Africa: regional overview of food security and nutrition
- Website Agriculture, food security and climate change: Outlook for knowledge, tools and action
- PDF Assessment of agricultural plastics and their sustainability. A call for action
- PDF Climate change and food security and nutrition Latin America and the Caribbean (policy guidelines)
- PDF Climate change: Unpacking the burden on food safety
- PDF Enhancing knowledge on climate change mitigation and adaptation for food security and nutrition
- PDF Ensuring access to safe and nutritious food for all through transformation of food systems
- PDF Food systems transformation: Developing sustainable, eco-friendly, climate-smart food production along value chains in Africa
- PDF Framework for Action on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
- PDF Info Note 2. The State of Food and Agriculture 2016; Climate change, agriculture and food security improved farming practices reduce impacts of ...
- PDF Measuring progress towards sustainable agriculture
- PDF Panorama of food and nutrition security in Latin America and the Caribbean
- PDF Priorities related to food value chains and the agri-food sector in the nationally determined contributions (NDCs)
- PDF Pulses and climate change. Revised edition
- PDF Report on the high-level regional dialogue on the mainstreaming of biodiversity in the agricultural, forestry and fisheries sectors
- PDF The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017: Building Resilience for Peace and Food Security
- PDF The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World – 2018
- PDF The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2016 : Climate change, agriculture and food security
- PDF The State of Food and Agriculture 2016 Info Note 1: Climate change, agriculture and food security climate change: what does it mean for ...
- PDF The future of food and agriculture – Trends and challenges
- PDF The state of food and agriculture: Adaptation
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Applying the climate-smart approach
Studies describing the application of the climate-smart approach to natural resources and agriculture management systems.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF "Energy-Smart" food for people and climate
- PDF Climate-smart forestry
- Website Climate-smart forestry
- Website Climate-smart livestock production
- Website Climate-smart soil and land management
- PDF Compendium on climate-smart irrigation: Concepts, evidence and options for a climate-smart approach to improving the performance of irrigated ...
- PDF Measuring climate co-benefits of livestock development in Cameroon
- PDF Solar-powered irrigation systems: A clean-energy, low-emission option for irrigation development and modernization
- PDF Supplemental irrigation: A promising climate-smart practice for dryland agriculture
- PDF Supporting agricultural extension towards climate-smart agriculture: An overview of existing tools
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The role of soils in climate change mitigation
A series of learning materials related to soil carbon and soil management in the context of climate change mitigation.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Carbone des sols en Afrique. Impacts des usages des sols et des pratiques agricoles
- PDF Global Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration Potential Map – GSOCseq v.1.1
- PDF Global assessment of soil carbon in grasslands
- PDF Global assessment of soil pollution: Report
- PDF Soil organic carbon – the hidden potential
- PDF Soils help to combat and adapt to climate change
- PDF Soils help to combat and adapt to climate change by playing a key role in the carbon cycle
- PDF Soils' potential to contribute to offset international aviation emissions
- PDF Soils: key to unlocking the potential of mitigating and adapting to climate change
- PDF Understanding countries’ status and challenges for the estimation of carbon stock changes from mineral soils in national greenhouse gas ...
