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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change agriculture and food security, Climate change, Climate change poverty and vulnerability

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    The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability

    Foresight UK, 2011
    The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size will increase and competition for land, water and energy will intensify, while the effects of climate change will become increasingly apparent. Over this period, globalisation will continue, exposing the food system to novel economic and political pressures.
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    Agriculture and climate change: real problems, false solutions

    EcoNexus, 2009
    Agriculture plays an important role in climate change, both as a contributor emitting greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and as a potential reducer of negative impacts. This paper gives an overview of how current and proposed agricultural practices affect climate change and how the proposed measures for mitigation and adaptation impact agriculture.
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    Browsing on fences: pastoral land rights, livelihoods and adaptation to climate change

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This paper presents an overview of pastoral systems and addresses rights issues around access and control of resources in the context of climate change. The document brings together the inputs made by over 120 participants in a 2006 web-based forum and also includes material from a number of projects from around the world.
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    Climate change, agricultural policy and poverty reduction: how much do we know?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2007
    Projections suggest that, by the end of the 21st century, climate change could have had substantial impact on agricultural production and hence on the scope for reducing poverty. This paper seeks to trace the likely impacts through changes in the quality of the physical asset base, access to assets, and impacts on grain production and on agricultural growth more generally.
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    Effects of climate change on the sustainability of capture and enhancement fisheries important to the poor: analysis of the vulnerability and adaptability of fisherfolk living in poverty

    Fisheries Management Science Programme, UK, 2004
    Although the majority of the world’s fisherfolk live in areas susceptible to the impacts of climate change, relationships between the physical impacts of climate change and the livelihood vulnerability of poor fishing communities have seldom been investigated.
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    Addressing climate change through development cooperation

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2005
    This report provides an input for defining the role of the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development (SDC) in addressing climate change, with particular reference to natural resources management and food security.The report is structured in four chapters and one annex:Chapter 1 explains the importance of climate change for the development cooperationChapter 2 details some key ele
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    High stakes: the future for mountain societies

    Panos Institute, London, 2002
    This report looks at the threats that face mountain environments and the people that live in them. It describes a 'vertical gradient of poverty' whereby 80 per cent of mountain inhabitants live below the poverty line. The authors describe the political, cultural and social marginalisation of many mountain communities.

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