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    Technologies for climate change adaptation: agriculture sector

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2011
    The agriculture sector faces the challenge of providing adequate food to a growing world population. There is limited scope to expand arable land, and unpredictable weather, floods, and other disastrous events make food production even more challenging. This guidebook provides information on 22 technologies and options for adapting to climate change in the agriculture sector.
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    The global supply and demand for agricultural land in 2050: a perfect storm in the making?

    AgEcon Search, 2010
    The number of people which the world must feed is expected to increase by 50% during the first half of this century, but will the world’s agricultural resource base be up to the task of meeting the diverse demands being placed on it?
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    Towards a shift from agricultural to rural development policy: the case of the republic of Macedonia

    2010
    Agriculture is still the basic economic activity in rural Macedonia. This paper aims at assessing the place that agriculture has in the country's overall economy, analysing the basic structure and income and investigating how support strategies are evolving.The main findings of the paper are as follows:
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    Pastoralism – research, policy and practice

    Odessa Centre, 2010
    Open access journal aimed at providing a central forum where those concerned with pastoralism can confront each other’s ideas, data and analysis, and discuss the implications of their work.
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    Odessa Centre

    The Odessa Centre is a consultancy working with  researchers and practitioners in the fields of pastoralism, rangeland ecology and livestock development in semi-arid areas.
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    Resilience of rural communities to climatic accidents: a need to scale up socio-environmental safety nets (Madagascar, Haiti)

    EASYPol, 2009
    Lack of resilience to climatic accidents seems to be one of the main reasons for the transformation of climatic accidents into environmental, economic and social disasters for rural communities. Focusing particularly on Madagascar and Haiti, the recommendations in this policy brief target ways to increase and improve the coverage and impact of existing risk management tools, as well as mak
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    Climate change: impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    Climate change, together with global population and income growth, is a major threat to food security in the world. This food policy report presents research results which quantify climate change impact, assess the consequences for food security and estimate the investment required to offset the negative effects on human wellbeing.
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    Agriculture and climate change: real problems, false solutions

    EcoNexus, 2009
    Agriculture plays an important role in climate change, both as a contributor emitting greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and as a potential reducer of negative impacts. This paper gives an overview of how current and proposed agricultural practices affect climate change and how the proposed measures for mitigation and adaptation impact agriculture.
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    Vulnerability and poverty in Bangladesh

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2009
    Poverty reduction will continue to be a principal objective of development policy. Despite the wealth of information on poverty in Bangladesh, rigorous quantitative studies to address the risks and poverty are scarce. This paper attempts to fill the gap by examining quantitatively the linkage between risks and movement in and out of poverty using nationally representative cross-section data.
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    Regional variation in livelihood strategies in Malawi

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009
    An obvious pathway out of poverty for poor households in agricultural based economy is to supplement agricultural incomes with non-farm economic activities. This paper identifies livelihood strategies at the household level as a function of assets held in Malawi.

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