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  GM and climate change: a hungry world needs answers on GM crops

  Ethical Corporation Online, 2008

   Climate change will cause a net drop in food production. This editorial argues that genetically modified (GM) crops have an important role to play in addressing the impending climate-related food crisis. The author asserts that GM crops can help to tackle the emerging food crisis in three ways:
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  Can crops be climate-proofed?

  SciDev.Net, 2008

  Among the most worrying aspects of climate change is its effects on the world's food supply. This article explores the urgent need to put climate change at the heart of agricultural research programmes to ensure the adaptation of major crops to a changing climate.
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  Beyond any drought: root causes of chronic vulnerability in the Sahel

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007

  This paper examines vulnerability to droughts in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso against the background of the 2005 food crisis in the Sahel region. The authors argue that vulnerability to droughts is due to a combination of political, economic and social forces as well as the impacts of highly variable rainfall.
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  Adaptive policymaking for agriculture and water resources

  International Development Research Centre, 2005

  In 2005, IDRC provided CA $1,000,000 to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) to support a four-year research collaboration with TERI of India. These institutes will study the adaptation of agricultural communities that have experienced environmental change in the last two decades.
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  Sustainable management of common natural resources in Mongolia (Ph III)

  International Development Research Centre, 2007

  Communities have coped for millennia through extremes of flood and drought by cooperatively managing shared natural resources, and by cultivating a variety of robust, indigenous crop types that can survive a range of conditions. Knowledge and use of diverse plant types - either planted or foraged - could be key to survival as climate extremes widen.
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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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  Climate change impacts on East Africa: a review of scientific literature

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006

  This report highlights some of the major impacts of climate change on conservation for East African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It also illustrates that climate change in Africa is not only a conservation issue but also a socio-economic one that must be dealt with on a global scale.
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  Climate change and pastoralists: investing in people to respond to adversity

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  The sustainability of pastoral systems largely depends on a balancing act between pastures, livestock and people. The mobility of pastoralists and their livestock is also a key factor. With climate change, the authors of this article speculate that this balance will be undermined.
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  A comparison of the social vulnerability of grain farmers in Mexico and Argentina

  Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change, 2006

  This paper focuses specifically on the various factors that differentiate farm enterprises and farm households, both in terms of their sensitivity to climate events and their capacity to adjust to changing climatic and market circumstances.
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  Effects of climate change on the sustainability of capture and enhancement fisheries important to the poor: analysis of the vulnerability and adaptability of fisherfolk living in poverty

  Fisheries Management Science Programme, UK, 2004

  Although the majority of the world’s fisherfolk live in areas susceptible to the impacts of climate change, relationships between the physical impacts of climate change and the livelihood vulnerability of poor fishing communities have seldom been investigated.

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