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Building climate-resilient food systems for Pacific Islands
World Fish Center, 2015This report focuses on the challenges of climate change and food security for the Pacific Islands.DocumentOptions for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
Elsevier, 2011This journal article highlights that agriculture and food security are key sectors for intervention under climate change.DocumentFood security and food production systems
Cambridge University, 2014This chapter highlights that the effects of climate change on crop and terrestrial food production are evident in several regions of the world and are affecting the abundance and distribution of harvested aquatic species, both freshwater and marine, and aquaculture production systems.DocumentLoss and damage from climate change: local-level evidence from nine vulnerable countries
2013Loss and damage is already a significant consequence of inadequate ability to adapt to changes in climate patterns. This paper, published in the International Journal of Global Warming, reports on the first ever multi-country, evidence-based study on loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in least developed and other vulnerable countries.DocumentFood security and adaptation impacts of potential climate smart agricultural practices in Zambia
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015This paper aims to provide insights into the interplay between food security outcomes and climatic variables, and provides policy implications for targeted interventions to improve the productivity and the resilience of smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the face of climate change.DocumentUncertainty of food security in Ghana by biofuel (jatropha curcas) production as an adaptation and mitigation capacity to climate change
Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management, 2014This study assessed the impact of biofuel (Jatropha curcas) production on food production and its climate change mitigation potential in Ghana. It recommends that experimental research be carried out for appropriate policies that will make biofuel production a win-win venture for Ghana.DocumentUnderstanding adaptive capacity: sustainable livelihoods and food security in coastal Bangladesh
International Water Management Institute, 2012This paper analyses data from a household-level survey of 980 agricultural and fishing households in seven sites across southern Bangladesh. We examine the relationship between assets, livelihood strategies, food security and farming practice changes. These households are coping with huge demographic, economic, and environmental changes.DocumentClimate change and adaptation in fisheries and aquaculture: Compilation of initial examples
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2014This document contains a selection of current and recent climate change adaptation activities and measures in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. Some of the highlighted activities are specifically targeted at addressing climate change impacts in fisheries or aquaculture, and others address related areas (e.g.DocumentClimate variability and gender: Emerging experiences from Western Zambia
Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013This paper uses Sesheke district in Western Zambia as a case study on climate variability and gender and relates it to how the livelihoods of natural resource dependent women and men have been affected.DocumentTransforming Gender Relations in Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013As part of a process to better understand the role of gender in agriculture initiated by the Swedish International Development Agency in 2009, this book presents and analyses a number of case studies from Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and Zambia.Pages