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Greetings from C-CIARN Agriculture: Our last note to you included information about our web site and workshop summary. Please continue to check out www.c-ciarn.uoguelph.ca and give us your feedback. “What’s in the News” included a May 21st reference to the Charlottetown Meeting of Energy and Environment Ministers. One of the outcomes of their discussions was agreement on the importance of adaptation to climate change and approval of an adaptation framework that includes the following elements: 1. Raise awareness of adaptation; 2. Facilitate and strengthen capacity for coordinated action on adaptation; 3. Incorporate adaptation into government planning processes; 4. Promote and coordinate research on adaptation; 5. Support networks to share knowledge; and, 6. Provide methods for adaptation planning. All of these points are fundamental to C-CIARN Agriculture’s mandate. We anticipate our activity and resources will be viewed as an important contribution to developing the adaptation framework and look forward to having your assistance in helping us meet future requests. C-CIARN Agriculture is compiling two searchable databases related to climate change impacts, risks, and adaptation for agriculture. One is composed of bibliographic material, while the other lists current researchers and their projects. We need input from you to make these databases as complete as possible. If you have written any books, reports, articles, and/or papers that deal with climate change impacts, risks, and adaptation for agriculture, we would appreciate having a record of them with as much detail as possible (Author(s), Title, Year published, Publication type, Abstract and keywords). Any of your own reference lists/bibliographies on the topic would also be very useful for us to go through. Likewise any information about your current research projects (Researchers, Title, Dates, Project Summary, and Project Products) will help us build a comprehensive and up-to-date inventory of research in the field. For those of you who monitor the “What’s in the News” feature, we are maintaining an archive of the entries that are not presented in full on the site. Because copyright regulations do not always allow us to provide the media version on the web page we are keeping some of them in a separate file. If you would like more details regarding specific articles just let us know. Look for another update from us in July. Until then we hope you have a good summer season. |
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