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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Climate change, Climate change agriculture and food security

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  Climate change, agriculture, and developing economies (Winters / Murgai / Sadoulet / de Janvry / Frisvold)

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
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  What Role for Tropical Forests in Climate Change Mitigation? The Case of Costa Rica

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999

  Land and forestry-based activities could in principle play important roles as climate change mitigation strategies. In practice, however, several questions have been raised about their feasibility. Therefore, understanding the processes and determinants of land use changes is critical.
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  Special report on land use, land use change and forestry: summary for policymakers [climate change]

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2000

  Reviews the current understanding of the relationship between land use (especially forestry), carbon dioxide emissions and the Kyoto Protocol agreementsTopics cover: how the global carbon cycle operates, and how this relates to forestry activitiesaccounting rulescomparison of the usefulness of models and ground-based assessments of changes in carbon stocksshort term prospect
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  Global farming systems study: challenges and priorities to 2030

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  For more than a decade, the proportion of internationally supported public investment directed at agriculture and the rural sector in developing countries has been declining. Moreover, this is occuring at a time in which the process of globalisation is changing patters of trade and investment, placing agricultural producers and communities under tremendous pressure to adapt in order to survive.

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