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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: biodiversity and livelihood impacts

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  This publication considers the linkages between climate change (mitigation and adaptation) and biodiversity, and then relates these linkages to livelihoods, poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Methodological framework: an internal scoping report of the project strategies for increasing human resilience in Sudan: lessons for climate change adaptation in North and East Africa

  Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change, 2005

  This paper details a project research methodology for assessing existing resilience-building strategies in Sudan to current climate change vulnerabilities.
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  Assessment of the world food security situation

  Committee on World Food Security, FAO, 2005

  Prepared for the Committee on Global Food Security, this 2005 annual FAO assessment document pays special attention to coping with key shocks to food security and the implications for preparedness, responses and mitigation efforts.In particular the report focuses on what it highlights as the main causes of food insecurity: conflicts, natural disasters, plant and animal pests and diseases, HIV/A
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  Sustainable livelihoods and climate change adaptation: a review of phase one activities for the project on climate change, vulnerable communities and adaptation

  Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2004

  This paper reports on the first phase of a project examining issues of sustainable livelihoods and climate change adaptation.
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  Livelihoods and climate change: combining disaster risk reduction, natural resource management and climate change adaptation in a new approach to the reduction of vulnerability and poverty

  Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2003

  This paper discusses a variety of issues surrounding livelihoods and climate change. Highlights of the paper include:
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  Poverty and climate change: reducing the vulnerability of the poor through adaptation

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  The report makes clear that climate change presents a serious risk to poverty eradication and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. While it affects us all, the adverse impact of climate change is more severely felt by poor people and poor countries.
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  Forest carbon and local livelihoods: assessment of opportunities and policy recommendations

  Future Harvest, 2002

  In preparation for the eighth session of the conference of the parties (COP8) to the Climate Change Convention, this report argues that businesses looking to buy carbon credits should do so by funding forests planted and managed by local people. It is argued that forest planting can mitigate global warming and that carbon producing business can mitigate their impact on the global climate by buy
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  Linking poverty reduction and environmental management: policy challenges and opportunities

  Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2002

  Focuses on ways to reduce poverty and sustain growth through sound and equitable environmental management.

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