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    Kailash sacred landscape conservation initiative – Feasibility assessment report

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011
    The Kailash Sacred Landscape (KSL) spreads across a vast region that includes remote portions of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China (TAR China) and contiguous areas of Nepal and India.
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    Farmers, food and climate change: ensuring community-based adaptation is mainstreamed into agricultural programmes

    2014
    Climate change creates widespread risks for food production. As climate impacts are often locally specific, it is imperative that large-scale initiatives to support smallholder farmers consider local priorities and integrate lessons from successful autonomous adaptation efforts.
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    High-altitude rangelands and their interfaces in the Hindu Kush Himalayas

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2013
    The interfaces between high-altitude rangelands and other ecosystems in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region such as forests, wetlands, and agricultural land are suffering from degradation, desertification, and soil erosion, which are further aggravated by climatic and anthropogenic factors.
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    Environmental livelihood security in Southeast Asia and Oceania: a water-energy-food-livelihoods nexus approach for spatially assessing change

    International Water Management Institute, 2014
    This document addresses the need for explicit inclusion of livelihoods within the environment nexus (water-energy-food security). The authors present a conceptualisation of ‘environmental livelihood security’, which combines the nexus perspective with sustainable livelihoods.
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    Background paper: research and development and extension services in agriculture and food security

    Asian Development Bank, 2014
    This paper explores the role of applied research for development and extension services through the two-pronged approach of boosting food production and preventing losses. Priority areas for research emphasize attention to smallholder farming systems, practical business models, the integration of gender, and multidisciplinary research that is sensitive to nutritional outcomes.
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    Climate-smart landscapes: multifunctionality in practice

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2015
    This book explores four central propositions on climate-smart and multifunctional landscape approaches: A) Current landscapes are a suboptimal member of a set of locally feasible landscape configurations; B) Actors and interactions can nudge landscapes towards better managed trade-offs within the set of feasible configurations, through engagement, investment and interventions; C) Climate is one
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    Coping with climate change – the roles of genetic resources for food and agriculture

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015
    This book argues that genetic resources have a critical role to play in feeding the world in the face of climate change and that more needs to be done to study, preserve and utilize biological diversity. It argues that crops, livestock, forest trees and aquatic organisms capable of surviving and producing in a changing climate will be needed and that policies.
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    Wetting and drying: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and saving water from rice production

    World Resources Institute [ES], 2014
    This is the eighth instalment of the ‘Creating a Sustainable Food Future’ series and explores the potential to improve water management in rice production in order to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and save water.
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    Supporting livelihoods through the protection of natural capital: A case study of the Agulhas Plain

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    Ecosystems are a form of natural capital. Invasions by introduced alien plant species alter ecosystems, often reducing supplies of valuable ecosystem goods and services and imposing substantial costs on South Africa’s economy. Reversing these losses by removing alien plants imposes further costs because clearing and control operations are expensive.
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    Market challenges for the restoration of the environment

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    Over the past century South Africa has become increasingly reliant on the manufacturing and services industries for its economic development and growth. However, the natural environment continues to play an important role in the livelihoods of particularly the poor, those in rural areas and the agriculture sector – the latter being essential for urban living.

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