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    Extractive industries, development and the role of donors

    Economic and Private Sector PEAKS, 2013
    Extractive Industries (EI) explore, find, extract, process and market sub-soil assets – oil, gas and mined minerals. EI represent a large and growing activity in many less-developed countries. But natural resource wealth does not always lead to sustainable and inclusive growth. This guide sets out the recent rise in importance of EI to less-developed countries.
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    Analysis of farmers’ adaptation strategies to climate change in cocoa production in Kwara State

    Journal of Agricultural Extension, 2013
    Changing climate and weather patterns are predicted to have severe negative impacts on food production, food security and natural resources in the immediate and coming years. Climate change alters the development of cocoa pods, insect pests and pathogens which translate into lower crop yields and impact farm income.
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    Agricultural vulnerability and adaptation to climatic changes in Malaysia: review on paddy sector

    Current World Environment, 2013
    This paper provides a brief review on the global and Malaysian perspective of climate change, and its impacts on Malaysian agriculture and relevant adaptation practices. It also provides policy recommendations for better coping with the changing nature of climatic factors.
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    Nationally appropriate mitigation actions for grassland and livestock management in Mongolia

    Asian Development Bank, 2013
    This policy brief by the Asian Development Bank argues that, given the negative impact of climate change on Mongolia, it is crucial to select mitigation actions that reduce vulnerability to climate change, support the achievement of national development goals, and are feasible given local constraints. Key messages from the brief include:
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    Mesoamerican coffee: building a climate change adaptation strategy

    International Center for Tropical Agriculture, 2013
    In Mesoamerica, coffee is an important part of agricultural GDP and export revenues which supports about half a million farmers, and employs millions of people on the farms and all along the supply chain. This policy brief summarises the potential risks and impacts of climate change on coffee farming in the region.
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    Bringing people back into protected forests in developing countries: insights from co-management in Malawi

    Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
    Focusing on Malawi, this study examines struggles to bring people back into protected forests to enhance sustainable forest management and livelihoods using insights emerging from a co-management project in Malawi. It uses mixed social science methods to analyse continuing local forest-user commitment to co-management despite conservation burdens largely for minimal financial benefits.
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    Envisioning the future and learning from the past: adapting to a changing environment in northern Mali

    Elsevier, 2013
    In West Africa, rural livelihoods that dependon natural resources develop coping and adapting strategies to face climate variability or change, and economic or political changes. The former Lake Faguibine in northern Mali has experienced drastic ecological, social, and economic changes. Forests have emerged on the former lake and have become important for local livelihoods.
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    Sustainable wetland management in the face of climate risks in Niger: the case of La Mare de Tabalak

    United Nations Development Programme, 2013
    The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) recently implemented climate risk management studies in seven countries.
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    'Agriculture', in Climate change 2007: mitigation

    Cambridge University, 2007
    This contributory chapter of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) outlines the status of climate change mitigation in agriculture and its implications on development, production and consumption trends. It presents regional and global trends in greenhouse gas emissions, as well as future global trends.
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    Respecting rights, delivering development: forest tenure reform since Rio 1992

    The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2012
    This report evaluates the progress achieved in forest management by indigenous people and local communities, which was set as a key objective at the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It presents new findings and identifies what needs to done to protect global forest areas and ensure their contributions to social, environmental and economic development.

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