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  Creating a sustainable food future: A menu of solutions to sustainably feed more than 9 billion people by 2050

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013

  With population growth and development creating ever-more demand for food (noted here as comprising two-thirds and one-third a function of the increase respectively), humanity faces a growing food gap between what will be needed in 2050, and what can sustainably be produced.
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  Lift lives for good: Actions to tackle inequality and climate change

  Oxfam, 2013

  This report focuses on inequality and climate change as two major injustices threatening the long-lasting change to lift people out of poverty and hunger. The climate change focus argues that climate change is prolonging and causing hunger and poverty through its impact on crops and livelihoods.
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  Impact of climate change on life & livelihood of Dalits: An exploratory study from disaster risk reduction lens

  National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, 2013

  Dalit people are a highly vulnerable group, especially with regard to climate change, given both their high dependence on natural resources, and social, political, and economic exclusion inhibiting their adaptive capacity.
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  The Last Straw? The additional burden of climate change on food security in the Himalaya | GRID-Arendal - Publications - The last straw

  GRID Arendal, 2013

  The food price spikes of 2007–08 brought food security into sharp focus on the global agenda. Declines in international commodity markets, financial speculation in low cereal stocks, dramatic weather events, soaring oil prices, and growth in biofuels competing for cropland merged to produce a global crisis.
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  The environment and gender index (EGI): 2013 pilot

  World Conservation Union, 2013

  This pilot of the Environment and Gender Index aims to measure country performance at the intersection of gender, environment, and sustainable development. Socially constructed determinants can contribute to women’s disempowerment.
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  Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Garissa County, Kenya

  CARE International, 2013

  In Garissa County, the impacts of climate change are already being felt by communities, who are seeking ways to adapt to the changes and to build resilient livelihoods. These changes are combined with other environmental, economic and political factors to create a situation of increasing vulnerability for poor and marginalized households.
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  Determinants of choice of crop variety as climate change adaptation option in arid regions of Zimbabwe

  Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2013

  This study used the multinomial logit model to analyse the determinants of farmers’ choice of crop variety in the face of climate change. The estimation of the multinomial logit was done by using the sorghum variety options as dependent variable and where farmers grow other crop different from sorghum as the reference state.
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  Mapping the regional variation in potential vulnerability in Indian agriculture to climate change: An exercise through constructing vulnerability index

  African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2013

  The anticipated changes in water availability, temperature rise, soil degradation and the suggested increase in extreme weather events are likely to greatly affect agriculture in India. This paper aims to develop the vulnerability profile of agricultural systems of the Indian states to the changing climate scenarios.
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  Cambodian agriculture: Adaptation to climate change impact

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2013

  Cambodia has been identified as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. This International Food and Policy Institute discussion paper utilises crop models and village surveys to provide an overview of Cambodian agriculture's adaptation to climate change impacts.
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  The climate and development challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean: options for climate-resilient, low-carbon development

  Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2013

  This comprehensive report by the Inter-American Development Bank seeks to assess the physical and economic impacts of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as well as adaptation options available. Additionally, the report examines how, and at what cost, the region can reduce its carbon footprint to a level consistent with global stabilisation goals.

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