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    Economic Assessment of the impacts of climate change in Uganda: National Level Assessment - agricultural sector report

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2015
    The agricultural sector is a fundamental part of the Ugandan economy, employing about 66 percent of the working population in 2009/10 and contributing about 22 percent to total GDP in the year 2012 (UBOS, 2013).
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    Pulse crops and sustainability: a framework to evaluate multiple benefits

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016
    The potential of pulses - beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils, and other pulses - to help address future global food security, nutrition and environmental sustainability needs has been acknowledged through the UN declaration of the 2016 International Year of Pulses. However, the full set of benefits that pulse crops can offer has not been systematically characterised.
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    Developing beans that can beat the heat

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2015
    In Africa and Latin America, the production of beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, which include higher temperatures and more frequent drought.
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    Africa’s smallholders adapting to climate change: the need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers

    Oxfam, 2015
    The need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers Climate change is undermining the ability of African nations to feed themselves. Women smallholder producers are on the front line of dealing with the impacts, but are not first in line for international climate finance.
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    The challenges of climate change: testing climate smart agricultural solutions for improved food security

    Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2016
    Climate change is likely to have far-reaching consequences for agriculture, natural resources and food security, demanding a response that integrates research, development and policy. Because of the disproportionate impact of climate change on the rural poor, priority investments should be directed towards poor agriculture, fish or forest dependent people whose livelihoods are most at risk.
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    Timescales of transformational climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan African agriculture

    Nature [journal], 2016
    Climate change is projected to constitute a significant threat to food security if no adaptation actions are taken.
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    The changing climate and human vulnerability in north-central Namibia

    Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 2016
    North-central Namibia is more vulnerable to effects of climate change and variability. Combined effects of environmental degradation, social vulnerability to poverty and a changing climate will compromise subsistence farming in north-central Namibia (NCN). This will make subsistence and small-scale farmers in the region more vulnerable to projected changes in the climate system.
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    Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique land policy issues paper

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2013
    This report presents the findings from the synthesis of national land related issues in Grenada and establishes the baseline systemic and institutional capacity for land policy development.
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    Climate-smart agriculture in Uruguay

    World Bank, 2015
    In recent years, farmers have been affected by increased climatic variability, reflected in periods of excessive precipitation and flooding and more intensive and frequent drought. Uruguay has long been considered on the forefront of natural resource management and conservation,  particularly soils.
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    Climate-Smart agriculture in Rwanda

    World Bank, 2015
    The climate-smart agriculture (CSA) concept reflects an ambition to improve the integration of agriculture development and climate responsiveness. It aims to achieve food security and broader development goals under a changing climate and increasing food demand.

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