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Creating Enabling Environments for Enhanced Climate Resilience in Agriculture - TCP/RER/3802

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 9

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and North Macedonia are facing climatic changes and climate-driven hazards, escalating existing vulnerabilities in the agriculture and food production sector. Limited access to agricultural input materials, such as seeds, further aggravates production efficiency and resilience, as well as the livelihoods of rural populations that depend on agriculture as a means of livelihoods. Access to quality seeds and the capacity to produce, store, use, exchange and sell them is key to maintaining smallholder farmer production.

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