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Getting Real About Climate Change and Agriculture
Content Type: Switzer Network News
Posted:
Thursday, March 1, 2012
On this Switzer Network News report, we learn about the intersection between global climate change and agriculture. Our guests are Doreen Stabinsky and Karen Hansen-Kuhn with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
Video of impassioned speech in Durban by one of Doreen Stabinsky's students goes viral
Content Type: News - Fellows
Posted:
Friday, December 30, 2011
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Doreen Stabinsky on controversial World Bank-backed "climate-smart" agriculture approach
Content Type: News - Fellows
Posted:
Thursday, December 29, 2011
“Soil carbon offsets will promote a spate of African land grabs and put
farmers under the control of fickle carbon markets,” said Teresa
Anderson of the UK-based Gaia Foundation,
an NGO that promotes indigenous farming, speaking in Durban. “The
[World] Bank’s agenda is more money for the bank and for carbon project
developers, not development,” said Doreen Stabinsky of the
Minneapolis-based...
Doreen Stabinsky explains what comes after Durban for agriculture and adaptation
Content Type: News - Fellows
Posted:
Thursday, December 29, 2011
There is little doubt that agriculture is both affected by and
directly affects climate change. Exactly how to address agriculture
within the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UFCCC), however,
is not easy to answer. Before Durban, negotiating text had been
circulating since before the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, virtually
unchanged for two years.How could agriculture be so...
Doreen Stabinsky publishes report on near-term effects of climate change on African food production
Content Type: News - Fellows
Posted:
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Read the story in a South African publication
Focus on Doreen Stabinsky and her work with IATP in Durban
Content Type: News - Fellows
Posted:
Monday, December 26, 2011
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Wearing blinders: The UNFCCC and agriculture's adaptation challenge
Content Type: Blog Post - Fellow
Posted:
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
This post is a reprint of Doreen Stabinsky's blog post for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. You can read the original post at: http://www.iatp.org/blog/201112/wearing-blinders-the-unfccc-and-agricultures-adaptation-challengeOne of the major issues being considered here at COP17 is adaptation.
Adaptation is the term used for any type of effort taken to adapt
systems to...
Leadership Grant: Stabinsky-Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy (International Climate and Ag Policy)
Content Type: Other Switzer Foundation Grant Awards
Posted:
Friday, May 27, 2011
International Climate and Agriculture Policy
Leadership Program
$25,000
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) has hired Doreen Stabinsky as a consultant to advise the organization on a range of issues involving climate change and agriculture. Doreen's expertise will elevate IATP's capacity to provide substantive leadership on the links between agriculture and climate change leading up to and during the United Nations Framework Convention on...