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    What works for women: proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security

    2012
    This briefing paper is the result of a collaboration between nine different agencies, sharing lessons learned from working with women smallholders in order to close the gender gap in agriculture.
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    Assessment of Mexico's policies impacting its greenhouse gas emissions

    Climate Action Tracker, 2012
    The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) compares and assesses national and global action against a range of different climate targets across all relevant time frames. This report assesses whether Mexico’s current policies and climate action pledges meet the country's targets and approach the targets required for a global 2°C or lower pathway.
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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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    Food prices, nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals

    World Bank, 2012
    This report highlights the need to help developing countries deal with the harmful effects of higher and more volatile food prices. It notes that in 2007-2008 and again in 2011, spikes in food prices prevented the achievement of poverty eradication policies affecting especially the urban poor and the health of children.
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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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    New voices, different perspectives: Proceedings of the AfricaAdapt Climate Change Symposium 2011

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    This report brings together the proceedings of the 2011 AfricaAdapt Climate Change Symposium, which share the research, experiences, and co-constructed knowledge that emerged from the three-day, bilingual symposium with the wider climate and development community.
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    Forest management and climate change: a literature review

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
    This literature review assesses current and potential future changes occurring within the forestry sector. It identifies challenges posed to forests and analyses the relationship between forests and climate change.
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    Adapting to climate change in the water sector

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    This background note, published by the Overseas Development Institute, provides an overview of the potential risks and vulnerabilities that face the water sector due to climate change. It also summarises of some of the adaptive strategies, targeting both supply and demand of water, being employed across various sectors in the developing world and offers suggestions going forward.
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    Vulnerability and adaptation assessment of the fisheries and aquaculture industries to climate change

    2008
    This document focuses on the fisheries and aquaculture industries as important contributors to the continued economic growth of Belize. It explains the vulnerabilities inherent and external to these industries, inclusive of climate change and means by which these they can be strengthened through adaptation.
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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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