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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Climate change, Climate Change Adaptation, Food security

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  Food security and climate change: a report by the high level panel of experts on food security and nutrition of the committee on world food security

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012

  This report analyses the connected problem of food security and climate change. It observes that a social vulnerability lens is essential to understand why certain individuals, households or communities experience differences in food insecurity risks, even when they are in the same geographic region.
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  Situational analysis of food sovereignty in the context of adaptation to climate change in Ecuador

  United Nations Development Programme, 2010

  The document seeks to identify effective investment strategies in reducing the vulnerability of major crops for the Ecuadorian economy, the same as are set in the Basic Food Basket, so that the country can, on one hand, reduce risks and, on the other, invest efficiently in sustainable development.
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  Impact of Climate Change on Rural Salvadorian Farmers

  The George Washington University Medical Center, USA, 2011

  The objective of this consultancy is to explore climate change impacts on food supply and security as well as on hazards that threaten subsistence farmers in El Salvador.
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  Coping with a changing climate: considerations for adaptation and mitigation in agriculture

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009

  This book presents historical evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and the current challenges climate change poses on world food security. It argues that changing climatic conditions are projected to affect food security from the local to the global level as the unpredictability of weather conditions increases.
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  Climate change, water and food security

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011

  This report summarises current knowledge of the anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture. It examines the implications for local and national food security and the methods and approaches for assessing climate change impacts on water and agriculture.
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  Climate change impacts and adaptation in Nepal

  International Water Management Institute, 2010

  This working paper aims to create a more comprehensive understanding of how the impacts of CC will be realized at different scales in Nepal (from household livelihoods to national food security), and the many institutions governing the ultimate adaptation process. SectionI, Background, provides background information on Nepal.
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  Agriculture and climate change: a scoping report

  Meridian Institute, 2011

  This scoping report provides context and analysis for addressing agriculture in international climate negotiations with the aim of informing climate negotiators and other stakeholders of different options and unpacking issues of interest.
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  Achieving food security in the face of climate change: final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012

  This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change.
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  Climate change and hunger: responding to the challenge

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009

  This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge.
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  Increased fitness of rice plants to abiotic stress via habitat adapted symbiosis: a strategy for mitigating impacts of climate change

  PLoS ONE, 2011

  Climate change and catastrophic events have contributed to rice shortages in several regions due to decreased water availability and soil salinisation. Although not adapted to salt or drought stress, two commercial rice varieties achieved tolerance to these stresses by colonising them with Class 2 fungal endophytes isolated from plants growing across moisture and salinity gradients.

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