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Title: Immigrants as a Potential Source of Growth for New England’s Highly Skilled Workforce
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Publication Year: 2013
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ISSN: 0022-1465
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Abstract: The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations coined the term Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) in 2009 and defines it as agriculture that reduces greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and increases agricultural adaptation and productivity for national food security and development goals (FAO 2010). Since then, many countries have adopted CSA approaches to national food security and climate resilience policies. For example, the Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives (MAFC) adopted the FAO definition of CSA to develop the Agriculture Climate Resilience Plan (ACRP) 2014-2019. The ACRP addresses increasing economic, social and climatic impacts accelerated by climate change, and invokes CSA as a central approach to increasing yield and mitigating economic shocks at the smallholder farm level (ACRP 2014). Similarly, African policy bodies, such as the East African Community (EAC), through its Programme on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, and the NEPAD Agency of the African Union (AU), through the Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance (ACSAA), have also adopted the FAO definition of CSA. The ACSAA has set a target for uptake of CSA by 6 million African smallholder farmers by 2021.
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Authors: Watson, Tara
Publisher: New England Public Policy Center
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration
Countries: United States