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Financing Sustainable Agriculture under Climate Change with a Specific Focus on Foreign Aid

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In this chapter Jikun Huang and Yangjie Wang provide an overview and case studies of the connection between agriculture, foreign aid and climate change, and argue the extent to which agriculture is heavily underfunded and that foreign aid needs to be scaled up significantly to tackle the great challenge of food security in a climate change context. They also point at how to make climate finance through foreign aid more effective to tackle mitigation and adaptation in agriculture across different types of mitigation and adaptation measures.

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  • Financial Climate
  • Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)
  • Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF)
  • Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation
  • United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC)

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  1. School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Jikun Huang

  2. Business School of Central South University, Changsha, China

    Yangjie Wang

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Huang, J., Wang, Y. (2018). Financing Sustainable Agriculture under Climate Change with a Specific Focus on Foreign Aid. In: Huang, Y., Pascual, U. (eds) Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5379-5_10

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