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Cattle and climate in Africa: how climate variability has influenced national cattle holdings from 1961–2008
PubMed Central, 2013The role of cattle in developing countries is as a source of high-quality food, as draft animals, and as a source of manure and fuel. Cattle represent important contribution to household incomes, and in drought prone areas they can act as an insurance against weather risk.DocumentLinking food security, climate adaptation and carbon management: a case study from Indonesia
Institute of Resource Governance and Social Change, 2014This paper explores how food security, adaptation and carbon management objectives can be achieved at the local level? Constraints and opportunities are discussed from a local context in Indonesia.DocumentIntegrated national policy approaches to climate-smart agriculture: Insights from Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand
Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2014CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change report examining integrated national policies on climate-smart agricultural in Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand.DocumentClimate change, crop production and child under nutrition in Ethiopia; a longitudinal panel study
BMC Public Health, 2014Background: The amount and distribution of rainfall and temperature influences household food availability, thus increasing the risk of child under nutrition. However, few studies examined the local spatial variability and the impact of temperature and rainfall on child under nutrition at a smaller scale (resolution).DocumentIrrigation schemes and weather extremes: the challenge for Zimbabwe
Oxfam, 2014This case study of an irrigation project implemented by Oxfam and the government of Zimbabwe in Ruti, in Gutu district of Masvingo province, indicates that local adaptation efforts can go a long way, but there is still a danger that people may lose out and their efforts be frustrated unless they are part of a wider supportive political and economic framework.DocumentClimate and environmental change: views from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014IDS paper exploring the views of low income people in developing countries of the relationship between climate change, food security, and food price volatility.DocumentSecuring rights, combating climate change: how strengthening community forest rights mitigates climate change
World Resources Institute [ES], 2014This report analyses evidence linking community forest rights with healthier forests and lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.DocumentMeta-analysis of crop responses to conservation agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2014The aim of this study is to compare and combine the results from different conservation agriculture experiments using meta-analysis in the hope of identifying patterns among study results, sources of disagreement among those results, or interesting relationships that may come to light in the context of the different studies.DocumentSustainable fisheries and aquaculture for food security and nutrition: A report by The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
Committee on World Food Security, FAO, 2014This report has a focus on fish for food security in the face of challenges in sustainability governance and economic constraints.DocumentClimate change in Central and South America: recent trends, future projections, and impacts on regional agriculture
Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2014Central and South America. The report assesses the implications of climate change for agriculture, with a particular focus on those aspects of climate change that will have greatest impact on the crops currently grown in each region.Pages