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    Food security and climate change in the Pacific: rethinking the options

    Asian Development Bank, 2011
    The Pacific island governments view climate change as a priority issue, especially in terms of its potential impacts on food security, but need clear directions in addressing both issues. Their agricultural production until the mid-1990s, has been stagnant for the last 45 years, and per capita agricultural production has declined in all countries.
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    Mainstreaming environment and climate change - Agriculture

    2011
    This paper analyses the relationship between agriculture and nature.
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    The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability

    Foresight UK, 2011
    The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size will increase and competition for land, water and energy will intensify, while the effects of climate change will become increasingly apparent. Over this period, globalisation will continue, exposing the food system to novel economic and political pressures.
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    Climate change and developing country agriculture: an overview of expected impacts, adaptation and mitigation challenges, and funding requirements

    International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, USA, 2009
    Not only is the agricultural sector highly vulnerable to climate change, is it also one of the sectors most distorted and heavily influenced by a wide range of local, regional, national and international trade policies. The increased stress to the system brought about by climate change makes reform in global agricultural policies arguably even more important.
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    Climate change: impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    Climate change, together with global population and income growth, is a major threat to food security in the world. This food policy report presents research results which quantify climate change impact, assess the consequences for food security and estimate the investment required to offset the negative effects on human wellbeing.
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    Agriculture and climate change: an agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    Negotiations have been underway in advance of the meeting of the 15th Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in December 2009. This brief is a compilation of views of leading experts from around the world on the key negotiating outcomes that must be pursued now, in order to effectively put agriculture on the climate change agenda.
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    Economy wide impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    This report takes cognizance of the fact that agriculture is very important to sub-Saharan Africa and there is potential to increase agricultural productivity through irrigation. It employs two possible adaptation options to climate change. The first scenario doubles the irrigated area in Africa by 2050, compared to the baseline, but keeps total crop area constant.
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    Micro-level analysis of farmers' adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007
    Adaptation to climate change involves changes in agricultural management practices in response to changes in climate conditions. It often involves a combination of various individual responses at the farm-level and assumes that farmers have access to alternative practices and technologies available in the region.
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    Informing and involving farmers in Benin

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    In rural Benin, adapting to climate change will depend on improving farmers' access to information and actively involving them in decision-making. How can farmers access information that would enable them to plant and to harvest on time under such variable conditions? How can they be involved in the information gathering process and in developing measures to address climatic upheaval?
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    Understanding farmers' perceptions and adaptations to climate change and variability: the case of the Limpopo Basin, South Africa

    2009
    This report outlines how climate change is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts in South Africa. It states that rural farmers, whose livelihoods depend on the use of natural resources, are likely to bear the brunt of adverse impacts.

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