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    Effects of climate change on poultry production in Ondo State, Nigeria

    2013
    Poultry plays a vital economic, nutritional and socio-cultural role in the livelihood of rural households in many developing countries. This study assessed the effects of climate change on poultry production in Ondo State, Nigeria. 83 poultry farmers were interviewed to elicit relevant information and descriptive statistics. Inferential statistical tools were used for data analysis.
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    Large-scale land acquisitions and food security

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    DFID are looking to propose that the UK supports a package of measures to strengthen land transparency and ultimately governance. This work is of a high priority for DFID and the wider UK Government. Following further research on the evidence and internal discussions, DFID have identified a gap relating to two specific questions:
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    Journal of Agricultural Extension

    The mission of the Journal of Agricultural Extension is to publish conceptual papers and empirical research that tests, extends, or builds agricultural extension theory and contributes to the practice
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    Climate change and vulnerability of agroforestry

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2012
    Providing a detailed picture of the value of trees for local people in the tropics is a difficult undertaking. Not only does this represent the difficulty in accounting for values outside formal markets, but it also reflects the multiplicity of the species involved and the many different ways in which trees are used.
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    Large-scale implementation of adaptation and mitigation actions in agriculture

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2013
    This paper identifies sixteen cases of large-scale actions in the agriculture and forestry sectors that have adaptation and/or mitigation outcomes, and distils lessons from the cases.
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    Statistical Yearbook of the Food And Agricultural Organization for the United Nations - FAO_2013_stats_yrbook.pdf

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013
    The 2013 edition of FAO's Statistical Yearbook sheds new light on agriculture's contribution to global warming, trends in hunger and malnutrition and the state of the natural resource base upon which world food production depends.
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    Managing Price Risk in Local Food Reserves: Analysing the prospects for a stabilisation fund in Mali and Niger

    Oxfam, 2013
    Local food reserves can contribute to food security strategies and have the potential to empower communities. These collective initiatives are set up and owned by small-scale producers with the objective of increasing the availability and access to food, or of increasing income by managing the food-price cycle.
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    Practice Brief: Promote food security in West and Central Africa

    SNV, 2013
    This practice brief showcases SNV’s activities in West and  Central Africa aimed at supporting rural households to  achieve food security. It is based on a broad range of case  studies that highlight a number of similarities in the quest for  solutions, for example:
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    Reframing the New Alliance Agenda: A Critical Assessment based on Insights from Tanzania

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
    Through the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, in 2013 G8 countries are seeking to mobilise the private sector and multi-national corporations to boost African agriculture. This new Future Agricultures / PLAAS briefing (pdf) looks at how African countries are engaging with the New Alliance.
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    Squeezed: life in a time of food price volatility, year 1 results

    Oxfam, 2013
    Half a decade after the price spike of 2007-2008, food price volatility has become the new norm: people have come to expect food prices to rapidly rise and fall, though nobody knows by how much or when. So what does the accumulation of food price rises mean for well-being and development in developing countries? And what can be done to improve life in a time of food price volatility?

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