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This study quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed the impacts of natural disasters, particularly typhoons, floods, and droughts, on agriculture, food security, and the natural resources and environment in the Philippines. It aimed to propose recommendations as to how best to respond to the...
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Although agriculture is often considered vulnerable to climate change, recent gridded crop growth modelling intercomparison exercises have found that staple crop yields will be modestly affected by global warming. However, those crop growth models also do not fully reflect impacts of increasing...
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The ever-deepening planetary crisis stipulates the urgency of bringing the Rio Conventions - the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - closer together to...
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With the shift from petroleum-based to biomass-based economies, global biomass demand and trade is growing. This trend … voluntary certification standards to ensure that biomass is sustainably produced, food security aspects are hardly addressed as … adequate Food (RtaF), which is applicable in over 100 countries, can be ensured in local biomass production and in …
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environmental impact; ecosystem service; biomass; bioenergy; Renewable Energy Directive; certification schemes … to test for biomass production for bioenergy (i) whether certification schemes as major governance mechanism allow a …-scale drivers and impacts of biomass production on the environment. For case studies in the Southeastern US, more than 30 % of the …
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