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  Dirty cotton - a research on child labour, slavery, trafficking and exploitation in cotton and cotton seed farming in India

  Global March Against Child Labour, 2012

  The introduction of genetically modified or BT cotton in India has increased the demand for cheap labour.  Recognising the need to understand and address the growing concern over the engagement of children in the cotton industry in India, this study examines the issue of child labour in four cotton and cotton seed growing states in – Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra
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  Rural poverty and Food insecurity mapping at district level for improved agricultural water management in the Limpopo River Basin

  Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2013

  The purposes of this paper are to: 1) Identify areas in the Limpopo River Basin with high levels of rural poverty and food insecurity; 2) Identify areas where agricultural water management (AWM) interventions are taking place; and
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  Smallholders, food security, and the environment

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2013

  This report aims to improve understanding among policymakers and practitioners – together with those influencing and making decisions in relevant business sectors – of the relationships between smallholders, food security and the environment.
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  Pastoralists and wildlife conservation in western China: collaborative management within protected areas on the Tibetan Plateau

  Pastoralism, 2012

  Pastoralists have long inhabited vast areas of western China, including the Tibetan Plateau region. Their traditional land use practices and cultural conservation ethic have helped to protect the natural resource base upon which they depend and the wildlife that co-exist with them in the grassland landscapes.
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  How can social and environmental services be provided for mobile Tibetan herders? Collaborative examples from Qinghai Province, China

  Pastoralism, 2011

  Tibetan herders have lived for centuries in the high grasslands of Central Asia, yet many development programs are currently transforming their lives. One of the main assumptions of government policy, in China and around the world, is that the provision of social services is best provided in settled, urban environments.
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  Pastoralism

  Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice is an interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal on extensive livestock production systems throughout the world.
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  Sustainable Intensification: A New Paradigm for African Agriculture

  Imperial College, University of London, 2013

  Sub-Saharan Africa is particularly vulnerable to global challenges such as food insecurity, climate change, rural poverty, malnutrition and environmental protection. This puts pressure on the fragile food production system.
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  Mapping the regional variation in potential vulnerability in Indian agriculture to climate change: An exercise through constructing vulnerability index

  African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2013

  The anticipated changes in water availability, temperature rise, soil degradation and the suggested increase in extreme weather events are likely to greatly affect agriculture in India. This paper aims to develop the vulnerability profile of agricultural systems of the Indian states to the changing climate scenarios.
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  Local vulnerability, Forest communities and Forestcarbon conservation: case of southern Cameroon

  Academic Journals, 2013

  This research paper, published in the international Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation, reports on a study of two community forests', Nomedjoh and Nkolenyeng, Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) projects located in south Cameroon.
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  Recognizing local agro-ecological knowledge in sustainable intensification of tree-crop-livestock farming systems

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2013

  This technical paper by the World Agroforestry Centre analyses what farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia currently know about ecosystem processes and the interactions between trees, crops and livestock. The aim is to use this information to guide interventions that will build more intensive and climate-resilient systems.

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