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  The land-use sector within the post-2020 climate regime

  Nordic Council of Ministers, 2014

  This report analyses the current status of the land-use sector under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, and formulates options for how various incentives and systems could be harmonised under a future climate treaty.
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  Rural Peoples’ Perception to Climate Variability/Change in Cross River State-Nigeria

  Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2014

  This study attempts to assess perception level of rural people to climate change in selected communities in Cross River State, Nigeria. Results showed 71.7 per cent of the people are aware of climate change. They also indicated that the onset of rains is now delayed while cessation is earlier against the trend in the past.
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  Climate change adaptation strategies through indigenous knowledge system: Aspect on agro-crop production in the flood prone areas of Bangladesh

  Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2014

  This study explores the climate change adaptation strategies for agro crop production and assesses the financial suitability through indigenous knowledge in flood prone areas of Bangladesh. Different types of adaptation strategies for agro-crop production are examined through an experimental treatment for flood prone areas of Bangladesh.
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  How to scale out community-based adaptation to climate change

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2014

  This working paper explores the ‘scaling out’ of community-based adaptation (CBA) pilots, which is defined as ‘more quality benefits to more people over a wider geographical area, more equitably, more quickly, and more lastingly’.
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  Farming system evolution and adaptive capacity: Insights for adaptation support

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2014

  Farming systems are an example of complex, social and ecological systems that are dynamic, and operate across multiple temporal and spatial scales – from individual to global levels.
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  Supporting the vulnerable: Increasing adaptive capacities of agropastoralists to climate change in West and southern Africa using a transdisciplinary research approach

  International Livestock Research Institute, 2013

  This publication seeks to identify promoted policy entry points to support the implementation of priority adaptation strategies, and identifies policy mechanisms as appropriate interventions to allow agropastoralists to buffer the effects of climate variability and change.
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  Supporting climate resilient value chains

  Evidence on Demand, 2013

  This report include an examination of three commodity supply/value chains that are grown in four African states besides Pakistan and Bangladesh. The document focuses particularly on current trends in the value chains and considering whether they will face challenges due to physical climate effects under a range of scenarios.
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  Understanding adaptive capacity: sustainable livelihoods and food security in coastal Bangladesh

  International Water Management Institute, 2012

  This paper analyses data from a household-level survey of 980 agricultural and fishing households in seven sites across southern Bangladesh. We examine the relationship between assets, livelihood strategies, food security and farming practice changes. These households are coping with huge demographic, economic, and environmental changes.
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  Payments for ecosystem services schemes: project-level insights on benefits for ecosystems and the rural poor.

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2013

  Payments  for  ecosystem  services (PES)  provide a market based instrument to motivate changes in land use that degrade ecosystem services.
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  Adaptation under the ‘new normal’ of climate change: The future of agricultural extension and advisory services

  Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services, 2014

  This paper outlines the nature of the adaptation challenge, identifies past and present points of extension and advisory service (EAS) engagement, and proposes future responses. The paper focuses on the constraints and conditions of smallholder farmers in the tropics, as well as the natural resource base upon which agriculture depends.

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