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  Feeding climate change: what the Paris Agreement means for food and beverage companies

  Oxfam, 2016

  The Paris Agreement marked a major breakthrough in support for climate action from many parts of the business community, including from key actors in the food and beverage sector. But despite significant progress, much work remains to be done, both to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to support the millions of people already hit by climate change.
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  Cultivating climate resilience: the Shea value chain

  Overseas Development Institute, 2016

  The economy of Burkina Faso remains relatively undiversified and is strongly driven by the climate-sensitive agriculture sector. Burkinabe agriculture is known to be mostly extensive and not highly productive.
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  Seeds of adaptation: climate change, crop diversification, and the role of women farmers

  2015

  Around the world, women farmers are taking a leading role in implementing strategies aimed at crop variety conservation and diversification, with the goal of strengthening local climate change adaptation capacities. That is the message conveyed in this gender brief by the Center for International Forestry Research.
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  Sustainable food security: re-igniting Nigeria's economy via systems strengthening

  2015

  The use of ‘systems strengthening’ can help achieve food and nutrition security, contribute to growing a more sustainable economy, and better respond to inherent systemic challenges. That is the argument of this topic brief, presented in a Nigerian context.
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  Climate variability, seasonal climate forecast, and corn farming in Isabela, Philippines: a farm and household level analysis

  2009

  Seasonal Climate Forecast (SCF) is one of the tools, which could help farmers and decision makers better prepare for seasonal variability. Using probabilistic principles in projecting climatic deviations, SCF allows farmers to make informed decisions on the proper choice of crop, cropping schedule, levels of input and use of mitigating measures.
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  Profitable use of SCF in a policy context: the case of rice stockholding in the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009

  This paper documents the activities of the National Food Authority (NFA), particularly on rice marketing, in realizing its mandates of buying high and selling low.
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  Impacts of natural disasters on agriculture, food security, and natural resources and environment in the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012

  In Southeast Asia, the Philippines is among the hardest hit by natural disasters, particularly typhoons, floods and droughts. These natural disasters have negative economic and environmental impacts on the affected areas and the people who live there.
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  Africa's quest for food security: what is the role of urban agriculture?

  African Capacity Building Foundation, 2012

  Urban agriculture is becoming increasingly significant as a source of household food, a trend that is closely linked to declining incomes of vulnerable urban households in the wake of neoliberal economic restructuring, high rates of urbanisation, and the need to serve an emerging niche market in African cities. Urban agriculture is generally viewed as a potentially viable policy response t
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  Carbon offsets and agricultural livelihoods: lessons learned from a carbon credit project in the transition zone of Ghana

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2012

  This paper focuses on one project in Ghana, and is aimed at understanding how the Vision 2050 Forestry Carbon Credit Project (CCP) interacts with property rights, resource access and livelihoods of smallholders in the Forest-Savanna Transition zone of Ghana. The focus is on the process of project implementation, and the underlying assumptions driving this.
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  How traditional knowledge and technologies are contributing to climate change adaption in Lain America's mountains

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015

  High climate variability has been a characteristic of mountain ecosystems, even before climate change concerns emerged. Indigenous cultures of Central America and the Andean region have been living in unpredictable environments for centuries. As a result, they possess a variety of knowledge and technologies that have helped them to adapt their livelihoods to increasing uncertainty and risk.

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