Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81019 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/047
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Agricultural development is facing great challenges in meeting global food security and is expected to face even greater difficulties under climate change. The overall goal of this paper is to examine how foreign aid in particular can be used to achieve the joint objectives of development, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in agriculture in the developing world. The results show that agriculture is underinvested and foreign aid has not increased sufficiently to assist developing countries achieve sustainable agriculture; substantial funds are needed to finance the wide range of measures for mitigating and adapting to climate change. The paper attempts to examine the successful cases where agricultural mitigation of and adaption to climate change have worked in the developing countries. In this respect, we pose four main questions: What works? What could work? What can be scaled? And what can be transferred?
Subjects: 
climate change
finance
foreign aid
agriculture
mitigation
adaption
JEL: 
F35
G32
H87
Q54
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-624-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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