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  Biofuels for transportation: global potential and implications for sustainable agriculture and energy in the 21st Century

  Worldwatch Institute, 2006

  This paper explores the potential of biofuels in reshaping agricultural development and addressing climate change.
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  Climate change and pastoralists: investing in people to respond to adversity

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  The sustainability of pastoral systems largely depends on a balancing act between pastures, livestock and people. The mobility of pastoralists and their livestock is also a key factor. With climate change, the authors of this article speculate that this balance will be undermined.
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  A comparison of the social vulnerability of grain farmers in Mexico and Argentina

  Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change, 2006

  This paper focuses specifically on the various factors that differentiate farm enterprises and farm households, both in terms of their sensitivity to climate events and their capacity to adjust to changing climatic and market circumstances.
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  Laying the foundations for clean development: preparing the land use sector - a quick guide to the Clean Development Mechanism

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2002

  This booklet provides information to forestry and land-use audiences, principally in developing countries, who want to find out more about the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and how it affects their activities.
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  Effects of climate change on the sustainability of capture and enhancement fisheries important to the poor: analysis of the vulnerability and adaptability of fisherfolk living in poverty

  Fisheries Management Science Programme, UK, 2004

  Although the majority of the world’s fisherfolk live in areas susceptible to the impacts of climate change, relationships between the physical impacts of climate change and the livelihood vulnerability of poor fishing communities have seldom been investigated.
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  Climate change and food systems

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  This short paper discusses the implications of climate in relation to agricultural production and food security. The paper highlights the agro-ecological zones (AEZ) approach, used to quantify the regional impact and geographical shifts in agricultural land and productivity potentials. The AEZ approach analyses the implications for food security resulting from climate change and variability.
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  Mainstreaming climate change responses in economic development of Uruguay

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  This paper assess Uruguay’s greenhouse gas emissions and economic performance, in addition to reviewing policies, plans and regulations which have resulted in land use changes and new forested areas with significant implications for climate change.
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  Investigating the impacts of climate change on Chinese agriculture

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK, 2004

  This paper reports on a regional climate change model developed to predict the impacts of climate change of Chinese agriculture. The model, developed by the UK’s Hadley Centre for Climate Change Predication and Research, took into account climate and soil variables, and the influence of higher atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide on plant metabolism.
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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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  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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