The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has released several 2-page briefs and full-length papers on farmer adaptation strategies to climate change in Ethiopia and South Africa, and their implications for policies at the national, regional, and local levels. The nine briefs concisely lay out results and policy implications based on farmer vulnerability, water management, and the best ways to integrate climate change adaptation into overall development policy.

Our World 2.0 is a web magazine brought to you by the United Nations University and asks the question: What can we do when faced with complex, inter-connected and pressing problems like climate change, oil depletion and food security?

In responding to these challenges, innovation will be the key. This webzine and series of video briefs will report on and analyze these innovations in order to inspire people to learn.

'This briefing paper examines the modalities for the proposed climate investment funds (CIFs) and considers the impact these funds will have on existing global measures to tackle the causes and effects of climate change. In particular, the paper demonstrates how the World Bank’s role in climate change financing may create parallel frameworks of climate change governance which may undermine existing multilateral climate change regimes, despite claims to the contrary. '

'This statement deals with the crisis of food prices and shortages, and also the issue of agriculture and climate change. The importance of food security and of expanding sustainable agriculture practices in its economic, social and environmental aspects is stressed.'

The Frontlines forum is to explore the experiences in dealing with the effects of climate change of rural or indigenous communities living in small islands, the circumpolar Arctic, high-altitude zones, low-lying coastal areas, tropical forests, desert margins and other vulnerable environments. UNESCO’s Coasts and Small Islands platform and Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems program launched this Internet-based discussion forum on 12 June.

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