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  Establishing links between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the context of loss and damage: policies and approaches in Bangladesh

  Germanwatch, 2013

  The aim of this paper is to examine the challenges of addressing loss and damage through national institutional arrangements that integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in Bangladesh.
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  Integrating disaster risk management into climate change adaptation

  Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2013

  The Asian Disaster Preparedness Network have produced this guidebook to serve as a reference for integrating disaster risk management (DRM) into climate change adaptation (CCA), and to promote the adoption of a risk management approach to climate-sensitive decision-making. It guides the reader on how to contribute to CCA by improving the management of climate extremes.
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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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  Climate change impact on Togo’s agriculture performance: a Ricardian analysis based on time series data

  Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management, 2013

  This paper applies a Ricardian approach to measure the effect of climate change on agriculture performance in Togo using time series data from the period 1971-2004. The findings show that there is a non-linear relationship between agricultural added value and recorded precipitations during the cropping period.
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  Gender equality and food security: women’s empowerment as a tool against hunger

  Asian Development Bank, 2013

  Released during the Asia and the Pacific Regional High-level Consultation on Gender, Food Security and Nutrition (July 2013), this report explores the relationship between gender-based discrimination and the different channels through which households and individuals access food. Focusing on Asia and the Pacific, the author Dr.
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  International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

  CIAT's mission is to reduce hunger and poverty, and improve human health in the tropics through research aimed at increasing the eco-efficiency of agriculture.
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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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  Unlocking the power of local knowledge: a novel framework to cost community-based adaptation to climate change

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012

  Current approaches to identify the costs and benefits of adaptation are primarily quantitative, using top-down methodologies that may grossly underestimate the true costs. This policy brief argues that global policies require credible evidence from the local level.
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  Promoting community-based disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and emergency response for older people and other vulnerable groups in ASEAN countries and Japan

  HelpAge International, 2013

  Asia is the region most affected by disasters, and it also has the largest and most rapidly growing population of older people in the world. When disaster strikes, older people are among the most vulnerable to neglect, injury, death and disease. Yet their needs are often overlooked.
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  Statistical Yearbook of the Food And Agricultural Organization for the United Nations - FAO_2013_stats_yrbook.pdf

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013

  The 2013 edition of FAO's Statistical Yearbook sheds new light on agriculture's contribution to global warming, trends in hunger and malnutrition and the state of the natural resource base upon which world food production depends.

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