Climate Change Research At The World Agroforestry Centre

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND THE RURAL POOR are going to bear the brunt of climate change. Global conventions are not going to halt the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases, and governments need many years to address the underlying drivers of climate change. Local climates and terrestrial ecosystems will inevitably change. Yet, even as climate changes, food and fibre production, environmental services and rural livelihoods must improve, not just be maintained.

The world Agroforestry Centre is working with many partners on the climate change issue. Two primary goals shape the Centre's efforts: the first is to help provide options for farmers that increase the sustainability of their operations and buffer them against increasing climatic variability. The second goal is centred on mitigation of the problem itself, as called for in the Kyoto Protocol.