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    Pulse crops and sustainability: a framework to evaluate multiple benefits

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016
    The potential of pulses - beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils, and other pulses - to help address future global food security, nutrition and environmental sustainability needs has been acknowledged through the UN declaration of the 2016 International Year of Pulses. However, the full set of benefits that pulse crops can offer has not been systematically characterised.
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    Developing beans that can beat the heat

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2015
    In Africa and Latin America, the production of beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, which include higher temperatures and more frequent drought.
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    The impact of climate change, desertification and land degradation on the development prospects of landlocked developing countries

    UN Office of the High Representative of the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, 2016
    Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) are disadvantaged in a myriad of ways and they have special needs which require special attention. Challenges such as undiversified economies, vulnerability to climate change and climate variability, land degradation and desertification, among others, are undermining the economic potential of many LLDCs.
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    Africa’s smallholders adapting to climate change: the need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers

    Oxfam, 2015
    The need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers Climate change is undermining the ability of African nations to feed themselves. Women smallholder producers are on the front line of dealing with the impacts, but are not first in line for international climate finance.
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    Vulnerability of Pacific Island agriculture and forestry to climate change

    The Pacific Community (SPC), 2016
    Pacific Island countries and territories already face a range of development challenges due to their specific geographic and socio-economic characteristics, and their generally high exposure to natural hazards. The projected changes to the climate of the Pacific Island region over the coming decades present another challenging dimension that the region will need to grapple with.
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    The challenges of climate change: testing climate smart agricultural solutions for improved food security

    Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2016
    Climate change is likely to have far-reaching consequences for agriculture, natural resources and food security, demanding a response that integrates research, development and policy. Because of the disproportionate impact of climate change on the rural poor, priority investments should be directed towards poor agriculture, fish or forest dependent people whose livelihoods are most at risk.
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    Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

    ACIAR is a statutory authority within the Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio operating under the ACIAR Act.
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    The Pacific Community (SPC) (SPC)

    The Pacific Community (SPC) is the principal scientific and technical organisation in the Pacific region, supporting development since 1947.
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    Traditional livelihoods and mining in Mongolia's changing climate: exploring the potential of cross-sectoral partnerships in achieving sustainability

    Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, 2016
    The growing scale of resource development activities accentuates the complexity underlying the sustainability of traditional livelihoods in Mongolia. At the same time, Mongolia experiences growing vulnerability to climatic variability and change, expressed in the form of intense desertification, water stress, and extreme dzuds.
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    Blue Solutions

    Through the Blue Solutions project, four leading environment, conservation and development institutions combine their efforts to develop and bring together innovative marine and coastal management

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