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  Framework Programme on Climate Change Adaptation

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011

  FAO-Adapt serves a double purpose. First, it systemises the adaptation activities currently underway across the organisation, which serves to ensure that all efforts can move ahead toward a clear and unified goal. This, in turn, enables FAO to present a comprehensive body of work to the outside world.
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  Rethinking agricultural development: the Caribbean challenge

  2008

  The recent food price crisis has increased concerns about food security, reflecting the importance of food supplies in sustaining economic growth. This paper notes that the impacts on the agricultural sector of globalisation are contributing to doubts about the prospects for agricultural development. The authors argue that:
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  Agricultural Technology for development

  UN, 2011

  The return of high food prices and the need to adapt to climate change have revived interest in agricultural technologies adapted to smallholders, in particular women.
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  Community-based rangeland rehabilitation for adaptation to climate change and carbon sequestration

  Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network, 2011

  Since the 1960s, the Sahel region in Africa has experienced a general decline in the volume of rainfall. Between 1961 and 1998, droughts have affected Sudan with varying degrees of severity.
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  Promoting ecosysterm-based adaptation practices and iterative learning in Bangladesh's drought-prone areas: livelihood adaptation to climate change project (LACC)

  Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network, 2011

  The impacts of climate variability and change are global concerns, but in Bangladesh, where large parts of the population are vulnerable to a range of natural hazards, they are particularly critical.
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  Using the Maya Nut tree to increase tropical agroecosystem resilience to climate change in Central America and Mexico

  Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network, 2011

  Climate predictions for Central America point to an intensification of dry conditions as a consequence of increases in temperature, to severe water stresses, and resource deterioration, as a result of the combined impacts of climate change by 2025. Brosimum alicastrum or Maya Nut, a wild-harvested nutritious seed, is an excellent drought and climate change-resistant food for rural communities.
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  Discussion note on the triple crisis

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2012

  The current global crisis is so severe and encompasses so many areas – finance, climate, food, energy – that countries have been forced, willy-nilly, to coordinate with each other. The question is who has benefited from such coordination? What about the most vulnerable, especially those countries that already faced severe fiscal constraints even before these converging crises?
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  Rising food crisis and financial crisis in India: impact on women and children and ways of tackling the problem

  2012

  The objective of the study is to examine the impact of rising food prices and financial crisis on the impact of women and children in India. It identifies the pathways for dealing with the effects of these two crisis on households particularly women and children.
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  Trade policy, trade and food security in the Caribbean: structural issues, multilateral negotiations and competitiveness

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007

  There is considerable controversy over the impacts of trade policy and trade on food security. This book provides an overview of the interface between trade, trade policy and food security in the Caribbean. The publication also focuses on the Caribbean region as a component of the Small and Vulnerable Economies (SVEs) group.
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  A review of agricultural policies: case study of Jamaica

  Caribbean Community Secretariat, 2005

  Although facing declining economic fortunes, the agricultural sector in Jamaica continues to play a pivotal role with respect to food security and rural livelihoods. This report provides an analytical review of the major policy provisions for the agricultural sector in Jamaica. The document highlights that:

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