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  Africa’s smallholders adapting to climate change: the need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers

  Oxfam, 2015

  The need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers Climate change is undermining the ability of African nations to feed themselves. Women smallholder producers are on the front line of dealing with the impacts, but are not first in line for international climate finance.
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  Vulnerability of Pacific Island agriculture and forestry to climate change

  The Pacific Community (SPC), 2016

  Pacific Island countries and territories already face a range of development challenges due to their specific geographic and socio-economic characteristics, and their generally high exposure to natural hazards. The projected changes to the climate of the Pacific Island region over the coming decades present another challenging dimension that the region will need to grapple with.
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  The challenges of climate change: testing climate smart agricultural solutions for improved food security

  Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2016

  Climate change is likely to have far-reaching consequences for agriculture, natural resources and food security, demanding a response that integrates research, development and policy. Because of the disproportionate impact of climate change on the rural poor, priority investments should be directed towards poor agriculture, fish or forest dependent people whose livelihoods are most at risk.
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  Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

  ACIAR is a statutory authority within the Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio operating under the ACIAR Act.
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  The Pacific Community (SPC) (SPC)

  The Pacific Community (SPC) is the principal scientific and technical organisation in the Pacific region, supporting development since 1947.
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  Opportunities for strategic intervention in the South African agricultural sector: trade and employment

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2016

  There is scope for a number of strategic interventions by the South African government to support agro-industrial production. These could make a significant difference to the country’s foreign trade and its domestic employment record.
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  Traditional livelihoods and mining in Mongolia's changing climate: exploring the potential of cross-sectoral partnerships in achieving sustainability

  Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, 2016

  The growing scale of resource development activities accentuates the complexity underlying the sustainability of traditional livelihoods in Mongolia. At the same time, Mongolia experiences growing vulnerability to climatic variability and change, expressed in the form of intense desertification, water stress, and extreme dzuds.
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  Blue Solutions

  Through the Blue Solutions project, four leading environment, conservation and development institutions combine their efforts to develop and bring together innovative marine and coastal management
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  Agricultural productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean and other world regions: an analysis of climatic effects, convergence and catch-up

  Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2016

  The agricultural sector plays a critical role in the economy of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. However, agricultural productivity in LAC countries is facing the rising challenge imposed by climate change, natural resource depletion and environmental degradation.
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  The State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean: a mid-term review of progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2016

  Global Biodiversity Outlook-4, the mid-term review of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, provided a global assessment of progress towards the attainment of the Plan’s global biodiversity goalsand associated Aichi Biodiversity Targets, but contained limited regional information.

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