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Neither the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) nor the Vienna (Ozone Layer) Convention seriously considers adaptation. Indeed, such a consideration may be unnecessary-especially with regard to food security. Agriculture has been and is one of the most adaptable of human production systems. Only an extremely adaptable system could have expanded world food production sufficiently to meet most of the needs engendered by world population growth in the last two centuries. Yet the persistence of drought and hunger in the developing world suggests otherwise. However, this failure is not principally due to climate. It is rooted in the separation of the producers from the means of production and the separation of the techniques of production from the local ecology. This is the perspective of ecological (eco)-political economy (Yapa, 1982).
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Bass, B., Venema, H., Schiller, E. (1996). Adaptation of Food Production to Drought in the Senegal River Basin. In: Downing, T.E. (eds) Climate Change and World Food Security. NATO ASI Series, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61086-8_18
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