The publication addresses the international response to address this phenomenon, what predictions about the vulnerability and impacts would generate locally To account for the vulnerability of domestic agriculture to climate change and the main impacts expected in the coming decades are some of the issues detailed in the book "Climate change silvoagroapecuario sector in Chile", published by the Foundation for Agrarian Innovation (FIA), the Ministry of Agriculture.
The text also takes account of advances in science to discover this phenomenon, forecasts and what has been the international response in order to search for agreements and commitments to address it. FIA since 1998, participates in discussions and negotiations taking place at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as a representative appointed by the Ministry of Agriculture to the issues related to the use of land-use change land and forest in the Chilean delegation, which has allowed him to accumulate a significant amount of history firsthand. Is that information which you want to convey to the public through this book.
The contents of the book is divided into four chapters: "Definitions and climate change situation," "The international response to climate change" "Climate change and the Chilean agroforestry system", and "Chile's institutional response to climate change." It is in the third chapter which details issues such as the impact on water availability, agro-meteorological hazards, vulnerability agricultural expected effects on the main Chilean agricultural crops (wheat, corn, potatoes, beets, apples, stone fruit, vines, plantations
forest, etc..) and thermal and water regimes. It also reports on the measures of prevention and adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change, among other areas.
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SOURCE: FIA
