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    Facts and trends to 2050: energy and climate change

    World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2004
    This report provides an overview of key facts and societal challenges related to economic development, future energy demand and the impact that demand could have on the climate system.
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    Small-scale irrigation for food security in sub-Saharan Africa

    Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003
    This paper reports on a seminar on the potential of private irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Participatory irrigation management in Andhra Pradesh, India

    Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore, 2001
    The state government of Andhra Pradesh, India adopted major reforms in the irrigation sector in the late 1990s, including the transfer of management of irrigation systems to water users associations (WUAs).
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    Climate variability and impacts on east African livestock herders

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Colorado State University, 2003
    The paper discusses human adaptation and vulnerability to climate variability, specifically focusing on the Maasai pastoralists of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), northern Tanzania.The paper utilises past studies of Maasai pastoralist household decision-making processes and ecological data.
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    Achieving agricultural development through agricultural trade seminar: Being heard – integrated agriculture's views into trade policy making

    International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, USA, 2004
    This paper discusses the latest issues in making all agricultural participant's voices count in formulating agricultural trade policy.The main points noted in the paper include:local issues and some national issues that affect every day farm life receive the greater attention of farm leaders, particularly in developing countriesthe insight and influence of farmer leaders needs to be
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    Effects of climate change on agriculture and environment in the semi-arid tropics, with Senegal as an example

    North/South Priority Research Area, University of Copenhagen, 2003
    The effects of climate change are likely to be greater in tropical and subtropical developing countries, owing to the greater importance of the primary sector in these countries in terms of contribution to GNP. Many African nations will therefore be largely affected by global climate change.This paper focuses on Senegal, detailing the effects and possible outcomes of climate change.
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    Climate change and agriculture: a review of impacts and adaptations

    Climate Change, World Bank, 2003
    Agricultural productivity and depending livelihoods are particularly vulnerable to climate change. This paper reviews the impacts of climate change on agriculture, and the adaptation mechanisms that farmers and countries have used to cope with these impacts.
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    Climate change in Latin America: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2001
    This paper discusses the possible implications of climate change in Latin America.
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    Climate change in Asia: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2001
    This paper discusses the possible implications of climate change in Asia. The paper focuses on a number of variables that will be affected by climate change, including, water resources, the El Nino, ecosystems, coastal resources, human health, agriculture and overall vulnerability.
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    Availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture

    RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine, 2003
    The report by the Urban Agriculture Magazine draws on numerous case studies from around the world in discussing issues of availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture.Rapid urbanisation has lead to an increasing demand for urban agricultural land.

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