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  Topic Guide: Climate change, food security and agriculture

  Evidence on Demand, 2015

  This Topic Guide addresses the threat that climate change poses to food security and poverty reduction achievements. The peer-reviewed guide explains how programming around climate-smart agriculture can help adapt and build resilience to climate change – at the same time stimulating economic growth and poverty reduction in the agricultural sector.
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  What climate services do farmers and pastoralists need in Tanzania?

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2015

  This report presents final findings from the baseline data collection exercise conducted for Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) Adaptation Programme in Africa. The GFCS programme, having a focus on agriculture, food security, health and disaster risk reduction, is implemented in Tanzania and Malawi.
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  Loss and Damage, Women and Men: Applying a gender approach to the emerging loss and damage agenda

  Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative, 2013

  This paper argues that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) need to pay a particular attention to loss and damage and gender equality.
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  Integrating urban agriculture and forestry into climate change action plans: Lessons from Western Province, Sri Lanka and Rosario, Argentina

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2015

  For cities to be sustainable, they need to simultaneously address the vulnerability of people, places and sectors that may be affected by a changing climate; mitigate their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; and ensure adequate access to basic urban services such as water, food and energy to their growing populations. 
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  Addressing land degradation: benefits, costs, and policy directions

  Philippine Journal of Development, 2010

  Land degradation in the Philippines is a serious environmental problem with long-term implications for the sustainability of agricultural production. Protection of the resource base has thus become a policy priority, whether in terms of improving crop management in the lowlands or more urgently, arresting soil erosion in the uplands.
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  Communicating and Using Seasonal Climate Forecasts: a Challenge Crossing National, Organizational, and Disciplinary Boundaries

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009

  The papers in this special issue come from the project "Bridging the gap between seasonal climate forecasts (SCFs) and agricultural decisionmakers in the Philippines and Australia" funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). In addition to national and organizational boundaries, the project also crossed disciplinary boundaries.
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  Assessing the Value of Seasonal Climate Forecasts on Farm-level Corn Production through Simulation Modeling

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009

  Rainfall variability greatly influences corn production. Thus, a skillful forecast is potentially of value to the farmers because it could help them make a number of crop management decisions including crop choice, variety selection, timing of planting, and input usage.
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  A randomized evaluation of the effects of an agricultural insurance program on rural households’ behavior: evidence from China

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014

  The provision of weather insurance is a potential way of shielding farmers from weather related shocks and reducing poverty. However, the use of weather insurance is not widespread in many countries. In China, even with a government subsidy of 70 per cent, the take-up of weather insurance is quite low.
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  Risk-efficient Planting Schedules for Corn in Matalom, Leyte, Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009

  The study was conducted to identify risk-efficient cropping schedules for corn farmers in Matalom, Leyte, Philippines using stochastic dominance analysis of simulated yields, given the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) forecasts during the cropping period.
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  Corn Farmers’ Decisionmaking Based on Seasonal Climate Forecasts

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009

  Although our ability to predict climate conditions has improved significantly, farmers` use of climate information and forecasts in farming decisions and practices has changed a little. Part of the reasons is the lack of communication of innovations like the seasonal climate forecasts (SCFs).

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