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    2013 Global Food Policy Report

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    This report aims to provide insight into the major developments in food policy during 2013 and their implications for future food and nutrition security. It discusses the post-2015 development agenda, the year’s food policy successes and setbacks, and suggests how to advance policies that will improve the food situation for people living in poverty.
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    Philippine landcare after nine years: a study on the impacts of agroforestry on communities, farming households, and the local environment in Mindanao

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2006
    This paper reviews the impact of the Landcare Program on, farming households, communities, and the local environments in three sites in Mindanao, Philippines: Claveria in Misamis Oriental; Lantapan in Bukidnon; and Ned, Lake Sebu in South Cotabato.
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    Assessment of the headwaters of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2012
    The  study  site  of  Fogera  Woreda  is  one  of  106  woredas of  the  Amhara National  Regional  State  and  is  located  in  the  South  Gondar  Zone,  about  65  km  north of the  Regional  capital  Bahir  Dar  town,  on  
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    Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi series: profitability and land use systems in South and Southeast Sulawesi

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2012
    This profitability assessment is an early effort to generate baseline information for the Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi: Linking Knowledge with Action project the ‘AgFor project’ , for implementation in two provinces, South Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi. The study collected information on existing farming systems and estimated profitability for each land use.
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    Diagnosis of farming systems in the agroforestry for livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Northwestern Viet Nam project

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2013
    The Agroforestry for Livelihoods of Smallholder farmers in Northwestern Viet Nam project (2011-2016) focuses on agroforestry trials on farms in the northwestern mountainous region of the country. The objective of the study was to make an inventory of the current upland farming systems and identify key strengths and weaknesses of each system, including economic efficiency.
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    Agroforestry, food and nutritional security

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2013
    Agroforestry supports food and nutritional security through; (1) the direct provision of tree foods such as fruits and leafy vegetables and by supporting staple crop production; (2) by raising farmers’ incomes through the sale of tree products and surplus staples; (3) by providing fuels for cooking and; (4) by supporting various ecosystem services such as pollination that are essential fo
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    Payments for ecosystem services schemes: project-level insights on benefits for ecosystems and the rural poor.

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2013
    Payments  for  ecosystem  services (PES)  provide a market based instrument to motivate changes in land use that degrade ecosystem services.
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    Adaptation under the ‘new normal’ of climate change: The future of agricultural extension and advisory services

    Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services, 2014
    This paper outlines the nature of the adaptation challenge, identifies past and present points of extension and advisory service (EAS) engagement, and proposes future responses. The paper focuses on the constraints and conditions of smallholder farmers in the tropics, as well as the natural resource base upon which agriculture depends.
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    The gender advantage: Women on the front line of climate change

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2014
    This publication has been compiled to illustrate the experiences of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in their work to close the gender gap and mobilise women in climate change adaptation programmes and projects.
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    Placing African fisheries on the COP 17 agenda

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    Climate change is set to have far-reaching ecological and economic consequences for the African continent and globally. Developing countries are particularly vulnerable to climate change, not only as a consequence of resource and technology constraints to adapt to climate change, but also due to a greater reliance on the productive capacity of land and natural systems.

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