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    Biofuel potential and FAO’s estimates of available land: The case of Tanzania

    2010
    While there are under-utilized lands in several countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the drive towards transforming huge areas of land to biofuel plantations must be reviewed critically.
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    Human Rights Impact Assessment in the Context of Biofuels: Addressing the Human Right to Food and the Human Right to Water

    2010
    The original mandate of the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights said that he should „develop materials and methodologies for undertaking human rights impact assessments.‟ Since then, tools for human rights impact assessment (HRIA) have developed by different actors. This article reviews two such tools, both of which are up for revision in 2010.
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    Agricultural GHGs in East and West Africa baseline emissions and mitigation potential

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
    Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from agriculture are substantial. This paper looks into how can agricultural greenhouse gas emissions be reduced or sequestration enhanced while maintaining and even increasing food supply. The paper relies on a research undertaken in nine chosen African countries.
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    Fauna & Flora International (FFI)

    Fauna & Flora International's work spans across the globe, with over 100 projects in nearly 40 countries, mostly in the developing world.  It aims to act to conserve threatened species and ec
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    Case study on the impact of climate change on the agriculture of an indigenous community in Guyana

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    Much like developing countries, indigenous peoples the world over are among the least responsible for climate change, yet they are expected to be some of those most blighted by its effects.
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    Development of a national water sector adaptation strategy to address climate change in Jamaica

    Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2009
    A report on the formulation of Jamaica's National Adaptation Strategy using Precis, SDSM and GCM data as a basis for developing long-term strategies to cope with the impending changes in precipitation. In particular it focuses on the need to safeguard against less frequent, but more catastrophic events such as prolonged droughts, flash floods etc.
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    UNDP climate change country profile: Jamaica

    United Nations Development Programme, 2008
    A profile of the nation of Jamaica compiled for the UNDP. The article discusses Jamaica's vulnerability to the El Nino and La Nina phenomena in the face of recent and predicted climate change patterns. Overall, the data points to the country becoming warmer and drier in the decades ahead. Data for current trends and forecasts are represented in the form of charts and diagrams.
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    Agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in Latin America and the Caribbean: current situation, future trends and one policy experiment

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2011
    One challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is to increase aggregate agricultural production without proportionally increasing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper, however, states that agriculture’s potential contributions to reducing GHG in LAC are unclear.
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    Global Drylands: A UN system-wide response

    Convention to Combat Desertification, 2011
    Drylands, or ecosystems characterised by a lack of water, cover some 40% of the world’s terrain. Ranging from cultivated lands and grasslands to savannas and deserts, these parched environments support two billion people, 90% of them in developing countries.
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    The 2010 Global Consultations on Farmers' Rights: Results from an Email-based Survey

    Farmers' Rights, 2011
    This report presents the results of the e-mail based survey on Farmers‟ Rights. The consultations were organized in response to Resolution 6/2009 of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. A total of 131 respondents from 36 countries participated.

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