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    Revaluing ecosystems: pathways for scaling up the inclusion of ecosystem value in decision making

    World Resources Institute [ES], 2015
    This issue brief aims to promote longer-term thinking and create incentives to protect and restore ecosystems and ensure their sustainable use.
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    Tropical fruit tree species and climate change

    Bioversity International, 2012
    The study focuses on the knowledge which could help overcome threats to agriculture and food security, exploring new ways of helping vulnerable rural communities adjust to global changes in climate. Its particular focus is tropical fruit.
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    Water-smart agriculture in East Africa

    International Water Management Institute, 2015
    The inspiration for this sourcebook came from a 2014 meeting of researchers, practitioners and policy makers in Addis Ababa under the auspices of an event co-convened by the Global Water Initiative East Africa (GWI EA), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Water, Land and Ecosystems programme of the CG system.
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    Subsidies to key commodities driving forest loss

    Overseas Development Institute, 2015
    This working paper argues that there is an increasing focus on the role that public and private resources can play in supporting activities that reduce forest loss as part of wider efforts to address climate change, and ensure sustainable development.
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    An Overview of Modeling Climate Change Impacts in the Caribbean Region with contribution from the Pacific Islands

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    This report provides an overview for all CARICOM member states of the risks from climate change and includes a section on the common threats of climate change for Pacific island countries.
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    Africa Capacity Indicators 2013: Capacity Development For Natural Resource Management

    African Capacity Building Foundation, 2013
    This report focuses on natural resource management in Africa and links this discussion with state fragility, agricultural transformation and food security.
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    Women's Major Group (The WMG)

    The role of the Women’s Major Group is to assure effective public participation of women’s non-governmental groups in the UN policy processes on Sustainable Development, Post2015 and Environmental mat
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    A horizon scan of environmental drivers of poverty

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    This report presents the results of a rapid desk-based study of the environmental drivers of poverty, based on a review of peer-reviewed and grey literature for the last 10 years. The major non-climate environmental drivers of poverty are identified: biodiversity loss (at the global scale) and a variety of pollution and resource degradation issues at smaller scales.
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    Gender equality & women and girls empowerment: considerations for the post 2015 agenda

    Women's Major Group, 2015
    Women's Major Group (WMG) position paper on the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Post-2015 development agenda.
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    Managing water and fertilizer for sustainable agricultural intensification

    International Water Management Institute, 2015
    This reference guide is designed to improve general understanding of the best management practices for the use of water and fertilizers throughout the world to enhance crop production, improve farm profitability and resource efficiency, and reduce environmental impacts related to crop production.

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