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  Agricultural innovation: options for appropriate technologies in responding to climate change

  Asia Pacific Adaptation Network, 2015

  Agriculture is a key sector providing economic and social development in Southeast Asian countries, where a majority of the region’s population depend on agricultural production as a main source of household income.
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  Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa

  IOPscience, 2015

  Earlier research that reports a correlational pattern between climate anomalies and violent conflict routinely refers to drought-induced agricultural shocks and adverse economic spillover effects as a key causal mechanism linking the two phenomena.
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  Weather variability, agriculture and rural migration: evidence from state and district level migration in India

  South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, 2014

  Fast growing economies like India are likely to witness increasing disparity in living standards between rural and urban areas, with a corresponding increase in migration from rural to urban areas. The weather sensitivity of agriculture and the increasing vulnerability of crop yields to both weather extremes and changing weather conditions are likely to further accelerate the rural to rura
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  Why agronomy in the developing world has become contentious

  2013

  This paper argues that over the last 40 years the context of agronomic research in the developing world has changed significantly. Main changes include the neoliberal turn in economic and social policy and the rise to prominence of the participation and environmental agendas.
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  Climate change impacts on agriculture and food security in the Caribbean: A food importation perspective

  Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2003

  This report is a sub-component of the Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean (ACCC) project. Its purpose is to determine the extent to which climatic change might alter food production opportunities in countries which have traditionally been major suppliers of food to six selected Caricom countries and thereby alter food security in the region.
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  Agricultural resilience in the face of crisis and shocks

  Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2013

  Disaster risk can increase or decrease over time according to a country’s ability to manage its vulnerability and risk governance capacities. In recent decades, countries in all regions have strengthened their capacities to reduce mortality risks associated with major weather-related hazards such as tropical cyclones and floods.
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  Climate change, agriculture and food security: proven approaches and new investments

  Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2015

  This reader presents the key concepts, challenges and opportunities for agriculture and food security in relation to climate change. It gives an overview of the international negotiations on climate change and how they feature agriculture, especially in the context of ACP countries, and the farmers’ perspective on how progress can best be achieved.
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  Climate-Smart Agriculture: A call for action - Synthesis of the Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop Bangkok, Thailand, 18 to 20 June 2015

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015

  This report outlines conclusions and recommendations from the 'Regional Asia-Pacific Workshop on Climate-Smart Agriculture: A call for action' which was held in June 2015.
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  Overview of the scientific, political and financial landscape of Climate-Smart Agriculture in West Africa

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2015

  This report documents and analyses the current and future perspectives of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) for five major sectors in West Africa.
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  Climate change and the agriculture crisis: agroecology as a solution

  Focus on the Global South, 2015

  This report seeks to answer several questions on climate change, its causes, how it will affect people’s lives and environment and the importance of agroecology within this.

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