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    IFAD annual report 2011

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2012
    The International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) annual report 2011 describes the achievements of its programme of work through 240 projects in 94 countries, as well as its new strategic framework for 2011-2015. The report documents the milestones and indicators towards sustainable rural development, including a number of regional examples.
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    Management for adaptation to climate change. Mid-term review of a project implemented by Total Land Care, Malawi

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012
    The Management for Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) project in Malawi is implemented by Total Land Care (TLC) with funding from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Malawi and a 5 years time frame from 2008 to mid 2013.
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    Climate-Smart Agriculture: Possible Roles of Agricultural Universities in a Strengthened Norwegian Climate Change Engagement in Africa

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012
    The recent rise in the number of food insecure people in the world, coupled with incidences of crop failure due to adverse weather, have made world leaders increasingly aware that future climate change may severely limit our ability to feed the growing population towards 2050.
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    Forests and Climate Change Programme (FORCLIME)

    With the Forests and Climate Change Programme (FORCLIME), Germany supports Indonesia's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the forestry sector, to conserve forest biodiversity within the r
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    Food security and climate change: a report by the high level panel of experts on food security and nutrition of the committee on world food security

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
    This report analyses the connected problem of food security and climate change. It observes that a social vulnerability lens is essential to understand why certain individuals, households or communities experience differences in food insecurity risks, even when they are in the same geographic region.
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    Energy-smart food at FAO: an overview

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
    This study on energy smart food production by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) stresses that agriculture's dependence on fossil fuels is undermining efforts to build a more sustainable world economy. It notes that world food production consumes 30 per cent of all available energy, most of which occurs after the food leaves the farm.
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    Climate Change Adaptation for Smallholder Farmers in Southeast Asia

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2011
    Climate change is set to have a significant impact on climate-sensitive sectors of national economies, such as agriculture. This report, published by the World Agroforestry Centre, discusses the challenges that climate change brings to smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia, and outlines adaptive measures that can be taken.
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    Sustainable smallholder agriculture: feeding the world, protecting the planet

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2012
    Four fifths of the developing world’s food is produced on about half a billion small farms. Smallholder farmers live and earn their livelihoods in the world’s most ecologically and climatically vulnerable landscapes and they are at the forefront of the world’s efforts to deal with climate change and environmental degradation.
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    Guidelines for Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Agricultural Sector

    2011
    These guidelines are designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on how to: (i) conduct impact and vulnerability assessments in the agricultural sector; (ii) identify opportunities and entry points for integration of climate change mitigation and adaptation(CCMA) measures; (iii) identify, analyse and integrate options for CCMA into the agricultural policy formulation, financing, implementation
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    Effects of climate change on Rwandan smallholder agriculture

    2011
    Considering the current impacts of climate change in the study area, it is concluded that farmers need external help and support to effectively cope with changing climate and to adapt to current and future climate change. Climate plays a central role in agriculture, which is the main stay of the Rwandan economy and community livelihood.

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