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

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  Adaptation to climate change by small-scale Rooibos tea farmers in Wupperthal and the Suid Bokkeveld areas of the Western and Northern Cape

  South South North, 2006

  The project aims to support small-scale farmers in the project area in their efforts to adapt their farming practices to anticipated climate change and to enhance their incomes.
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  Biofuels for climate change mitigation: international trade issues for the G8+5 countries

  Georgetown University, 2007

  This paper focuses on international trade issues that are arising due to increased interest in biofuels.
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  Guidance for promoting synergy among activities addressing biological diversity, desertification, land degradation and climate change

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2006

  This report highlights the major biological factors that contribute to ecosystem resilience under the projected impacts of global climate change.
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  Biofuels for transportation: global potential and implications for sustainable agriculture and energy in the 21st Century

  Worldwatch Institute, 2006

  This paper explores the potential of biofuels in reshaping agricultural development and addressing climate change.
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  Laying the foundations for clean development: preparing the land use sector - a quick guide to the Clean Development Mechanism

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2002

  This booklet provides information to forestry and land-use audiences, principally in developing countries, who want to find out more about the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and how it affects their activities.
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  Africa: up in smoke?

  New Economics Foundation, 2005

  This, the second report from a coalition of UK environment and development groups, says that efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa will ultimately fail unless urgent action is taken on climate change. The report says that G8 nations have failed to 'join-the-dots' between climate change and Africa. Unless addressed, this could condemn generations in the world’s poorest nations.
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  Mainstreaming climate change responses in economic development of Uruguay

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  This paper assess Uruguay’s greenhouse gas emissions and economic performance, in addition to reviewing policies, plans and regulations which have resulted in land use changes and new forested areas with significant implications for climate change.
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  Toolkit: integration of biodiversity concerns in climate change mitigation activities

  German Federal Environmental Agency, 2004

  This toolkit provides a practical guide on designing climate change mitigation activities. The toolkit aims to enhance synergies between climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation policies.The first part of the toolkit gives an overview of possible climate change mitigation activities, especially in the land use, land use change and forestry sector.
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  Potential carbon mitigation and income in developing countries from changes in use and management of agricultural and forest lands

  Essex University, 2001

  This paper explores the opportunities for mitigating atmospheric carbon emissions and generating development income in developing countries through a combination of sustainable agricultural practices on existing lands, slowing tropical deforestation, and reforesting degraded lands.The analysis shows that over the next ten years, forty-eight major tropical and subtropical developing countries ha
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  Responding to climate change: on the ground in Honduras

  Canadian Forestry Advisers Network, 2001

  Report on project in Honduras aimed at assessing the potential for carbon sequestration through both establishing new plantations and conservation of existing forests.

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