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  Seeds of adaptation: climate change, crop diversification, and the role of women farmers

  2015

  Around the world, women farmers are taking a leading role in implementing strategies aimed at crop variety conservation and diversification, with the goal of strengthening local climate change adaptation capacities. That is the message conveyed in this gender brief by the Center for International Forestry Research.
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  Sustainable food security: re-igniting Nigeria's economy via systems strengthening

  2015

  The use of ‘systems strengthening’ can help achieve food and nutrition security, contribute to growing a more sustainable economy, and better respond to inherent systemic challenges. That is the argument of this topic brief, presented in a Nigerian context.
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  Gender & climate change adaptation: empowering women in agriculture and forestry

  Rainforest Alliance, 2014

  In every region of the world, women are engaged in sectors that are directly affected by climate change. In agriculture, forestry, and other livelihood activities, these women are already feeling the impact of climate change; and generally experience greater vulnerability and risk than men.
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  Climate variability, seasonal climate forecast, and corn farming in Isabela, Philippines: a farm and household level analysis

  2009

  Seasonal Climate Forecast (SCF) is one of the tools, which could help farmers and decision makers better prepare for seasonal variability. Using probabilistic principles in projecting climatic deviations, SCF allows farmers to make informed decisions on the proper choice of crop, cropping schedule, levels of input and use of mitigating measures.
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  Profitable use of SCF in a policy context: the case of rice stockholding in the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009

  This paper documents the activities of the National Food Authority (NFA), particularly on rice marketing, in realizing its mandates of buying high and selling low.
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  Crop isurance: security for farmers and agricultural stakeholders in the face of seasonal climate variability

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009

  Crop insurance is a risk management tool designed to even out agricultural risks and address the consequences of natural disasters to make losses more bearable, especially to the marginalized farmers. In the Philippines, the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) implements and manages the government program on agricultural insurance.
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  Impacts of natural disasters on agriculture, food security, and natural resources and environment in the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012

  In Southeast Asia, the Philippines is among the hardest hit by natural disasters, particularly typhoons, floods and droughts. These natural disasters have negative economic and environmental impacts on the affected areas and the people who live there.
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  Africa's quest for food security: what is the role of urban agriculture?

  African Capacity Building Foundation, 2012

  Urban agriculture is becoming increasingly significant as a source of household food, a trend that is closely linked to declining incomes of vulnerable urban households in the wake of neoliberal economic restructuring, high rates of urbanisation, and the need to serve an emerging niche market in African cities. Urban agriculture is generally viewed as a potentially viable policy response t
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  Carbon offsets and agricultural livelihoods: lessons learned from a carbon credit project in the transition zone of Ghana

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2012

  This paper focuses on one project in Ghana, and is aimed at understanding how the Vision 2050 Forestry Carbon Credit Project (CCP) interacts with property rights, resource access and livelihoods of smallholders in the Forest-Savanna Transition zone of Ghana. The focus is on the process of project implementation, and the underlying assumptions driving this.
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  Frontiers in Marine Science

  Frontiers in Marine Science is an interdisciplinary open-access journal covering the environment, biology, ecosystem functioning and human interactions with the oceans.

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