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  Weather Index-Based Insurance in Agricultural Development: A Technical Guide

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2011

  The technical guide is intended as a practical reference tool to guide IFAD, WFP and other donors’ country programme management staff through the steps of implementing a Weather Index-based Insurance programme. It is based on the recognition that weather index-based insurance represents an increasingly viable approach to help smallholder farmers prepare for climatic events.
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  Micro insurance for local adaptation

  Wiley Online Library, 2010

  Insurance instruments that provide economic security against droughts, floods, tropical cyclones and other weather extremes have emerged as an opportunity for developing countries to reduce their vulnerability to weather variability and adapt to climate change.
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  The future research agenda for ICTs, climate change and development

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2011

  A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stages, consider the ways in which people might engage with them in a range of possible future climate scenarios.
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  Shaping forest safety nets with markets: Adaptation to climate change under changing roles of tropical forests in Congo Basin

  Science Direct, 2010

  This paper explores the role of markets for Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in facilitating climate change adaptation of local communities in the Congo Basin.
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  CARE International Climate Change Brief: Adaptation and Food Security

  CARE International, 2011

  Food insecurity is a growing concern throughout the developing world, particularly for poor women and children. CARE understands that achieving food security for all will require a coordinated effort that incorporates preventive, promotional, protective and transformative measures. This brief outlines CARE’s understanding of the challenge and our response.
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  The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability

  Foresight UK, 2011

  The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size will increase and competition for land, water and energy will intensify, while the effects of climate change will become increasingly apparent. Over this period, globalisation will continue, exposing the food system to novel economic and political pressures.
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  Browsing on fences: pastoral land rights, livelihoods and adaptation to climate change

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008

  This paper presents an overview of pastoral systems and addresses rights issues around access and control of resources in the context of climate change. The document brings together the inputs made by over 120 participants in a 2006 web-based forum and also includes material from a number of projects from around the world.
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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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