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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change agriculture and food security, Climate change, Climate Change Adaptation, Agriculture and food

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    IFAD annual report 2011

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2012
    The International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) annual report 2011 describes the achievements of its programme of work through 240 projects in 94 countries, as well as its new strategic framework for 2011-2015. The report documents the milestones and indicators towards sustainable rural development, including a number of regional examples.
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    Food security and climate change: a report by the high level panel of experts on food security and nutrition of the committee on world food security

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
    This report analyses the connected problem of food security and climate change. It observes that a social vulnerability lens is essential to understand why certain individuals, households or communities experience differences in food insecurity risks, even when they are in the same geographic region.
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    Energy-smart food at FAO: an overview

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
    This study on energy smart food production by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) stresses that agriculture's dependence on fossil fuels is undermining efforts to build a more sustainable world economy. It notes that world food production consumes 30 per cent of all available energy, most of which occurs after the food leaves the farm.
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    Climate Change Adaptation for Smallholder Farmers in Southeast Asia

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2011
    Climate change is set to have a significant impact on climate-sensitive sectors of national economies, such as agriculture. This report, published by the World Agroforestry Centre, discusses the challenges that climate change brings to smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia, and outlines adaptive measures that can be taken.
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    Sustainable smallholder agriculture: feeding the world, protecting the planet

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2012
    Four fifths of the developing world’s food is produced on about half a billion small farms. Smallholder farmers live and earn their livelihoods in the world’s most ecologically and climatically vulnerable landscapes and they are at the forefront of the world’s efforts to deal with climate change and environmental degradation.
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    Guidelines for Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Agricultural Sector

    2011
    These guidelines are designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on how to: (i) conduct impact and vulnerability assessments in the agricultural sector; (ii) identify opportunities and entry points for integration of climate change mitigation and adaptation(CCMA) measures; (iii) identify, analyse and integrate options for CCMA into the agricultural policy formulation, financing, implementation
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    Effects of climate change on Rwandan smallholder agriculture

    2011
    Considering the current impacts of climate change in the study area, it is concluded that farmers need external help and support to effectively cope with changing climate and to adapt to current and future climate change. Climate plays a central role in agriculture, which is the main stay of the Rwandan economy and community livelihood.
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    Water grabbing? Focus on the (re)appropriation of finite water resources

    Water Alternatives, 2012
    Recent large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural production, also known as land grabbing, have attracted headline attention. However, water as both a target and driver of this phenomenon has been largely ignored in the debate. This special issue of Water Alternatives aims to fill this gap and to widen the perspective beyond the limited focus on agriculture-driven resource grabbing.
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    Impact of Climate Change on Rural Salvadorian Farmers

    The George Washington University Medical Center, USA, 2011
    The objective of this consultancy is to explore climate change impacts on food supply and security as well as on hazards that threaten subsistence farmers in El Salvador.
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    Adaptation to climate change in agriculture, forestry and fisheries: perspective, framework and priorities

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    Climate change poses severe threats on agriculture. Even though some countries may experience beneficial change to agricultural gross domestic product (GDP), the majority, particularly developing countries, will experience significant negative impacts.

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