6.1.2.1 Enabling conditions

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Chapter 6 : Interlinkages between desertification, land degradation, food security and GHG fluxes: synergies, trade-offs and integrated response options6.1 Introduction6.1.2 Framing social challenges and acknowledging enabling factors

6.1.2.1Enabling conditions

… sustainable land management requires conducive enabling conditions, such as attention to gender issues and the involvement of stakeholders, such as indigenous peoples and local communities, as well as attention to governance, including adaptive governance, stakeholder engagement, and institutional facilitation (Section 6.4.4.3). …

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Chapter 5 : Food Security5.7 Enabling conditions and knowledge gaps5.7.5 Knowledge gaps and key research areas

5.7.5.1Impacts and adaptation

… 2016; Kole et al. 2015). Many of these characteristics already exist in traditional varieties, including orphan crops and indigenous and local breeds, so research is needed to recuperate such varieties and evaluate their potential for adaptation and mitigation. Phenomics-assisted breeding …

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Chapter 5 : Food Security5.7 Enabling conditions and knowledge gaps

5.7.4Mobilising knowledge

Addressing climate change-related challenges and ensuring food security requires all types of knowledge (formal/non-formal, scientific/ indigenous , women, youth, technological). Miles et al. (2017) stated that a research and policy feedback that allows transitions to sustainable …

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Chapter 5 : Food Security5.3 Adaptation options, challenges and opportunities5.3.2 Adaptation framing and key concepts

5.3.2.4Role of cultural values

… in responses across populations to the same environmental risks (Adger et al. 2013). There is an inherent adaptability of indigenous people who are particularly connected to land use, developed for many centuries to produce specific solutions to particular climate change …

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Chapter 5 : Food Security5.3 Adaptation options, challenges and opportunities5.3.2 Adaptation framing and key concepts

5.3.2.3Role of agroecology and diversification

… increased resilience and reduced risks (integrated land management systems, agrobiodiversity, ILK, local food systems, dietary diversity, the sustainable use of indigenous fruits, neglected and underutilised crops as a food source) (medium confidence) (Makate et al. 2016; Lin 2011; Awodoyin …

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Chapter 4 : Land Degradation4.9 Case studies

4.9.1Urban green infrastructure

… is prioritised, which can result in substantial pollution of air and water sources, the degradation of existing agricultural areas and indigenous , natural or semi-natural ecosystems both within and outside of urban areas. For instance, urban areas are characterised by extensive …

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Chapter 4 : Land Degradation4.8 Addressing land degradation in the context of climate change

4.8.14.8.1 Actions on the ground to address land degradation

… in an agricultural context, agroecology (see Glossary) provides an important frame. The site-specific biophysical and social conditions, including local and indigenous knowledge, are important for successful implementation of concrete actions. Responses to land degradation generally take the form of agronomic measures (methods …

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Chapter 4 : Land Degradation4.1 Introduction

4.1.6The human dimension of land degradation and forest degradation

… number=98]; Fairhead and Scoones 2005; Zimmerer 1993; Stocking et al. 2001) and the importance of local and indigenous knowledge within land management is starting to be appreciated (Montanarella et al. 2018). Climate change impacts directly and indirectly …

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Chapter 6 : Interlinkages between desertification, land degradation, food security and GHG fluxes: synergies, trade-offs and integrated response options

ESExecutive Summary

… options exist (high confidence). {6.3, 6.4} Coordinated action is required across a range of actors, including business, producers, consumers, land managers, indigenous peoples and local communities and policymakers to create enabling conditions for adoption of response options (high confidence). The response options …

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Chapter 5 : Food Security

ESExecutive Summary

… recent decades. Warming compounded by drying has caused large negative effects on yields in parts of the Mediterranean. Based on indigenous and local knowledge (ILK), climate change is affecting food security in drylands, particularly those in Africa, and high mountain regions …

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