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Scientists are concerned that climate stresses are likely to cause massive losses in tropical fisheries and threaten livestock that sustain the world's poorest people....

CGIAR Climate's insight:

This week at the United Nations Climate Summit, the world took an important step back from the brink of a grim future filled with food crises by embracing the cause of climate-smart agriculture. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon announced the formation of a new Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture. Over the next two decades, the Alliance aspires to reach 500 million farmers, fishers, pastoralists, livestock keepers and foresters -- equivalent to half of the world's one billion small-scale farmers -- with climate-smart practices. The goal is to ensure food production can survive amidst much higher temperatures and far more frequent encounters with drought, flooding and violent storms.