catalogo publicaciones FAO 2019

AREAS OF WORK
NIGER
Women prepare
the field for the
next rainy season
by digging
micro-catchments
to save water.
©FAO/Giulio
Napolitano
CLIMATE
CHANGE
World hunger has
increased for the
third year in a row –
with an estimated 821 million
people who faced chronic
food deprivation in 2017, as
compared to around 804 million
in 2016. Climate variability and
extremes are key drivers behind
this rise, and strategies to mitigate
and adapt to climate change are
therefore important to reverse the
negative trend.
Several recent publications
explore the potential, as
well as the limitations, of
climate-smart agriculture,
both as a general concept
and as practised in specific
national contexts (p. 59).
Others provide guidance for
countries in preparing their
national adaptation plans, their
Intended Nationally Determined
Contributions and other
climate-related commitments
(pp. 60–61).
2019 has seen several events
of importance for FAO’s work
on climate change, including
the United Nations High-level
Political Forum on Sustainable
Development in July, where
Sustainable Development Goal
13 – on climate change – was
reviewed, the UN Climate
Summit in September, and the
2019 United Nations Climate
Change Conference (COP25),
that will be held in December in
Santiago, Chile. •
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