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    Mesoamerican coffee: building a climate change adaptation strategy

    International Center for Tropical Agriculture, 2013
    In Mesoamerica, coffee is an important part of agricultural GDP and export revenues which supports about half a million farmers, and employs millions of people on the farms and all along the supply chain. This policy brief summarises the potential risks and impacts of climate change on coffee farming in the region.
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    Translating famine early warning into early action: an east Africa case study

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2012
    This paper considers the political contexts in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, how these affected the response to the 2011 Horn of Africa emergency, and the implications for future response. Although the Horn of Africa is often seen as a security-challenged region, for good reason, the level of insecurity varies significantly between and within countries.
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    Food and nutrition security, health and gender equality: partnerships for climate-resilient sustainable development

    Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization, 2012
    This policy brief provides key recommendations with a view to RIO+20 and the post 2015 MDG agenda. It argues that food and nutrition security, climate change, health, gender equality and environmental degradation are closely interlinked, requiring integrated strategies. Increasing women's engagement, empowerment and leadership can help counter these challenges.
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    Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)

    The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people.
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    Climate change impacts and adaptation in Nepal

    International Water Management Institute, 2010
    This working paper aims to create a more comprehensive understanding of how the impacts of CC will be realized at different scales in Nepal (from household livelihoods to national food security), and the many institutions governing the ultimate adaptation process. SectionI, Background, provides background information on Nepal.
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    Rising global interest in farmland: can it yield sustainable and equitable benefits?

    World Bank, 2011
    This paper analyses issues that affect the role of agriculture as a source of economic development, rural livelihoods and environmental services.
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    Assuring Food Security in Developing Countries under the Challenges of Climate Change: Key Trade and Development Issues of a Fundamental Transformation of Agriculture

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2011
    For a large number of developing countries, agriculture remains the single most important sector. Climate change has the potential to damage irreversibly the natural resource base on which agriculture depends, with grave consequences for food security.
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    Adapting to climate change in the water sector

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    This background note, published by the Overseas Development Institute, provides an overview of the potential risks and vulnerabilities that face the water sector due to climate change. It also summarises of some of the adaptive strategies, targeting both supply and demand of water, being employed across various sectors in the developing world and offers suggestions going forward.
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    Food prices, social unrest and the Facebook generation

    AgEcon Search, 2011
    Both recent and historic events point to a close link between riots and food prices. This article aims at providing a credible estimate on the impact of food prices on social unrest manifested in the form of demonstrations and/or riots. The paper considers monthly time series of the past two decades, focusing on the role of online communication (e.g. Facebook) in present-day mass mobilisation.
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    Policy and Institutional Framework Review of the fisheries sector in Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2008
    This paper presents issues for consideration in the development of a proposal for possible funding to address the policy and institutional framework for the fisheries sector in Malawi. It is based on consultations with officials from the Department of Fisheries (DoF), donor agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), district level officials and fishing communities in Mangochi district.

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