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Strengthening Capacities for Improving Climate Action in Agriculture - TCP/ARM/3805

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 9

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) Owing to the vulnerability of its ecosystems and the occurrence of frequent natural disasters, Armenia is particularly susceptible to the effects of climate change. As temperatures rise, the country is likely to experience the expansion of drylands, loss of forest cover, range shifts of certain species, flooding, landslides, and drought. These phenomena will have deleterious effects on the country’s poor rural communities, who largely depend on subsistence farming. To mitigate the above-mentioned effects of a changing climate, Armenia has expressed a strong commitment to implementing adaptation measures in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors, among others, and to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). In 2018, Armenia joined the NDC Partnership and established an NDC Partnership Support Unit. The Unit then launched an initiative designed to build national capacity to develop, select, prioritize and carry out projects and activities that contribute to the implementation of the country’s NDC priorities, and to monitor these projects and activities.

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