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    On the brink: Who's best prepared for a climate and hunger crisis?

    ActionAid International, 2012
    Based on new research in 28 poor countries, ActionAid’s report reveals which poor nations are most prepared for the triple crisis of climate change, growing population and rising food prices, and which are burying their head in the sand.
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    Integrating protected areas into climate planning

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2011
    This paper argues for the need to make protected areas more directly relevant in the light of climate change. This includes the contribution of protected areas towards sustainable livelihoods, the provision of ecosystem services, and ensuring climate mitigation, resilience, and adaptation.
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    CARE International Climate Change Brief: Adaptation and Food Security

    CARE International, 2011
    Food insecurity is a growing concern throughout the developing world, particularly for poor women and children. CARE understands that achieving food security for all will require a coordinated effort that incorporates preventive, promotional, protective and transformative measures. This brief outlines CARE’s understanding of the challenge and our response.
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    Trees on farms: Tackling the triple challenge of mitigation, adaptation and food security

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2009
    This short policy brief highlights three key points and provides various policy recommendations in relations to these: - Trees help fight climate change by storing carbon.- They buffer against weather-related production losses, enhancing resilience against climate impacts.- And trees on farms provide additional income and diversity of food sources through tree-based products.
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    Agricultural technologies for climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries: policy options for innovation and technology diffusion

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010
    Climate Change exacerbates the already daunting challenges facing the agricultural sector, and this is particularly the case in developing countries. Innovations in agriculture have always been important and will be even more vital in the context of climate change.
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    Climate-smart agriculture for food security in Africa

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2011
    Agriculture in developing countries must change significantly to meet the related challenges of food security and climate change. This edition of Joto Afrika shows that in Africa, there are numerous proven, low-cost, climate-smart agricultural innovations that smallholders can adopt.
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    Community based adaptation to climate change in Africa

    African Centre for Technology Studies, 2010
    In Kenya, droughts and floods have becomemore frequent and intense. The country has also seen increased average temperatures, more extreme hot days, and colder nights, successive crop failures, as well as the spread of vector-borne diseases like malaria to places where the disease is not known to be endemic.
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    Adaptation in Goromonzi district, Munyawiri ward Zimbabwe

    African Centre for Technology Studies, 2010
    Whether people can adapt, and for how long, depends on the resources available. Africa is the region most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change and atthe same time has low adaptive capacity. But the people, particularly at the local level, are making efforts to adjust to the changes they observe.
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    Life as Commerce: The impact of market-based conservation mechanisms on women

    Global Forest Coalition, 2012
    This paper highlights the need to support rural and indigenous women’s highly sustainable methods of using and protecting natural resources. It advocates that women’s knowledge should be developed and adapted to respond to the global problem of decreasing biodiversity, while protecting women’s rights
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    Farmers in a Changing Climate: Does Gender Matter? Food security in Andhra Pradesh, India

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    This report presents the findings of research undertaken in six villages in two drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh in India Mahbubnagar and Anantapur. This FAO study uses gender, institutional, and climate analyses to document the trends in climate variability that men and women farmers are facing and their responses to ensure food security.

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