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FAO Climpag

Web Address:
http://www.fao.org/nr/climpag/about_en.asp
Email Address:
Published by:
Focus Country:
Italy

Climpag is a website illustrating interactions between weather, climate and agriculture in the general context of food security, based primarily on the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The CLIMPAG website contains information under the headings of Advice and Warnings; Climate Change; Climatic Indicators; Data and Maps; Hotspots; Natural Disasters. Apart from the website, information is also available in hardcopy as well as CD Rom. Its main audience is national level policy makers, technical experts and development practitioners.

Climpag is aimed at bringing together the various aspects and interactions between weather, climate and agriculture in the general context of food security. As per FAO basic texts, the word agriculture includes crops and grasslands, livestock husbandry, forestry and fisheries.