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

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  A comparison of the social vulnerability of grain farmers in Mexico and Argentina

  Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change, 2006

  This paper focuses specifically on the various factors that differentiate farm enterprises and farm households, both in terms of their sensitivity to climate events and their capacity to adjust to changing climatic and market circumstances.
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  Vulnerability to climate stress:local and regional perspectives: proceedings of two workshops

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2005

  This report discusses the proceedings of two related workshops, which presented the findings of the project “Adaptation as a livelihood struggle: conflict and vulnerability among dryland populations in Kenya”. This research looked at how conflicts shape adaptation and contribute to vulnerability in the face of climate stresses, such as drought.
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  Effects of climate change on the sustainability of capture and enhancement fisheries important to the poor: analysis of the vulnerability and adaptability of fisherfolk living in poverty

  Fisheries Management Science Programme, UK, 2004

  Although the majority of the world’s fisherfolk live in areas susceptible to the impacts of climate change, relationships between the physical impacts of climate change and the livelihood vulnerability of poor fishing communities have seldom been investigated.
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  Timescapes of community resilience and vulnerability in the circumpolar north

  Red Nova, 2003

  This paper investigates the social-ecological (SES) timescapes of the circumpolar north in relation to four primary provisioning practices, namely, hunting/gathering, pastoralism, agriculture, and market-based economy.
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  Climate change and agriculture: a review of impacts and adaptations

  Climate Change, World Bank, 2003

  Agricultural productivity and depending livelihoods are particularly vulnerable to climate change. This paper reviews the impacts of climate change on agriculture, and the adaptation mechanisms that farmers and countries have used to cope with these impacts.
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  Climate change in Latin America: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2001

  This paper discusses the possible implications of climate change in Latin America.
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  Climate change in Asia: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2001

  This paper discusses the possible implications of climate change in Asia. The paper focuses on a number of variables that will be affected by climate change, including, water resources, the El Nino, ecosystems, coastal resources, human health, agriculture and overall vulnerability.
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  Climate change in Africa: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2001

  Africa is highly vulnerable to the various manifestations of climate change. This paper focuses on a number of variables that will be affected by climate change, including, water resources, food security, ecosystems, natural resources, human health, agriculture and overall vulnerability.
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  Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in least developed countries (LDCs)

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  Adaptation to climate change has become an important policy priority in the international
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  Poverty and climate change: reducing the vulnerability of the poor through adaptation

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  The report makes clear that climate change presents a serious risk to poverty eradication and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. While it affects us all, the adverse impact of climate change is more severely felt by poor people and poor countries.

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