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Mesoamerican coffee: building a climate change adaptation strategy
International Center for Tropical Agriculture, 2013In 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.OrganisationJournal of Agricultural Extension
The mission of the Journal of Agricultural Extension is to publish conceptual papers and empirical research that tests, extends, or builds agricultural extension theory and contributes to the practiceDocumentClimate change and vulnerability of agroforestry
World Agroforestry Centre, 2012Providing a detailed picture of the value of trees for local people in the tropics is a difficult undertaking. Not only does this represent the difficulty in accounting for values outside formal markets, but it also reflects the multiplicity of the species involved and the many different ways in which trees are used.DocumentNew pathways to resistance: outcomes of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa research and capacity building program 2006-2012
International Development Research Centre, 2012This report presents a brief and interactive summary of the Climate Change in Africa research and capacity program’s chief contributions.DocumentFeeding an urban world: a call to action
Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 2013This report focuses on the specific issue of urban food security, describing the demographic and environmental trends as well as food production and infrastructure challenges that impact supply and demand for food in urban areas.DocumentLarge-scale implementation of adaptation and mitigation actions in agriculture
Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2013This paper identifies sixteen cases of large-scale actions in the agriculture and forestry sectors that have adaptation and/or mitigation outcomes, and distils lessons from the cases.DocumentStatistical Yearbook of the Food And Agricultural Organization for the United Nations - FAO_2013_stats_yrbook.pdf
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013The 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.DocumentManaging Price Risk in Local Food Reserves: Analysing the prospects for a stabilisation fund in Mali and Niger
Oxfam, 2013Local food reserves can contribute to food security strategies and have the potential to empower communities. These collective initiatives are set up and owned by small-scale producers with the objective of increasing the availability and access to food, or of increasing income by managing the food-price cycle.DocumentPractice Brief: Promote food security in West and Central Africa
SNV, 2013This practice brief showcases SNV’s activities in West and Central Africa aimed at supporting rural households to achieve food security. It is based on a broad range of case studies that highlight a number of similarities in the quest for solutions, for example:DocumentReframing the New Alliance Agenda: A Critical Assessment based on Insights from Tanzania
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013Through the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, in 2013 G8 countries are seeking to mobilise the private sector and multi-national corporations to boost African agriculture. This new Future Agricultures / PLAAS briefing (pdf) looks at how African countries are engaging with the New Alliance.Pages