Integrating a gender perspective in the right to food 2016, para. 56
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Climate change is one of the foremost contemporary threats to food security. The agriculture sector is under substantial stress from climate change-induced increases in temperature, variability in rainfall?and extreme weather events that trigger crop failures, pests and disease outbreaks, as well as the degradation of land and water resources.
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Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right to food
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Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
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Environment
Food & Nutrition
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All
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2016
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Reference
SR Food, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/31/51, para. 56.