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  Food prices, nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals

  World Bank, 2012

  This report highlights the need to help developing countries deal with the harmful effects of higher and more volatile food prices. It notes that in 2007-2008 and again in 2011, spikes in food prices prevented the achievement of poverty eradication policies affecting especially the urban poor and the health of children.
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  Climate change and hunger: responding to the challenge

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009

  This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge.
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  Increased fitness of rice plants to abiotic stress via habitat adapted symbiosis: a strategy for mitigating impacts of climate change

  PLoS ONE, 2011

  Climate change and catastrophic events have contributed to rice shortages in several regions due to decreased water availability and soil salinisation. Although not adapted to salt or drought stress, two commercial rice varieties achieved tolerance to these stresses by colonising them with Class 2 fungal endophytes isolated from plants growing across moisture and salinity gradients.
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  Agriculture development and food security: progress on the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit on Food Security

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2011

  Reducing the number and proportion of people who suffer from hunger and malnutrition is one of today’s most difficult challenges. Efforts have been made more difficult by higher and more volatile food and fuel prices, political conflict, and persistent underinvestment in agriculture, food and nutrition.
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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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  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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  Adapting to climate change in the water sector

  Overseas Development Institute, 2009

  This background note, published by the Overseas Development Institute, provides an overview of the potential risks and vulnerabilities that face the water sector due to climate change. It also summarises of some of the adaptive strategies, targeting both supply and demand of water, being employed across various sectors in the developing world and offers suggestions going forward.

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