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  Mechanisms for agricultural climate change mitigation incentives for smallholders

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2011

  Smallholder farmers have an important role to play in the prevention of climate change by reducing net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, they are not benefitting from international financial mechanisms established as a result of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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  Towards policies for climate change mitigation: incentives and benefits for smallholder farmers

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2012

  Agriculture has been previously neglected by climate negotiators and policymakers, but this is changing due to an increasing understanding of the links between climate change and agriculture.
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  Swidden, Rubber and Carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?

  2011

  Swidden (also called shifting cultivation) has long been the dominant farming system in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA). In the current conception, REDD+, landscapes involving swidden qualify almost automatically for replacement by other land-use systems because swiddens are perceived to be degraded and inefficient with regard to carbon sequestration.
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  The Viability of Cattle Ranching Intensification in Brazil as a Strategy to Spare Land and Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  2011

  Recent research and policy on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Brazil suggests that the least-cost, largest-scale mitigation option is for cattle ranchers to produce more on the land they already use.
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  Development of a national water sector adaptation strategy to address climate change in Jamaica

  Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2009

  A report on the formulation of Jamaica's National Adaptation Strategy using Precis, SDSM and GCM data as a basis for developing long-term strategies to cope with the impending changes in precipitation. In particular it focuses on the need to safeguard against less frequent, but more catastrophic events such as prolonged droughts, flash floods etc.
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  UNDP climate change country profile: Jamaica

  United Nations Development Programme, 2008

  A profile of the nation of Jamaica compiled for the UNDP. The article discusses Jamaica's vulnerability to the El Nino and La Nina phenomena in the face of recent and predicted climate change patterns. Overall, the data points to the country becoming warmer and drier in the decades ahead. Data for current trends and forecasts are represented in the form of charts and diagrams.
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  Belize climate change vulnerability and adaptation assessment for sugarcane and citrus

  2008

  This national communication examines the vulnerability and adaptation of the sugarcane and citrus industries in the face of climate change. It first introduces the phenomenon of climate change and follows up with the vulnerability and adaptation study of the sugar and citrus industries.
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  Belize country report: Second national communication to the UNFCCC: GHG inventory for the agriculture sector

  2007

  This national communication focuses on the agricultural sector of Belize and how it contributes to the country's overall Green House Gas (GHG) emissons. As well, it reviews the first draft of this national communication and the problems encountered therein.
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  Agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in Latin America and the Caribbean: current situation, future trends and one policy experiment

  Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2011

  One challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is to increase aggregate agricultural production without proportionally increasing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper, however, states that agriculture’s potential contributions to reducing GHG in LAC are unclear.
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  Water and climate change adaptation: key messages for the 15th COP

  Global Public Policy Network on Water Management, 2009

  With not a single mention of water in the outcome documents of COP13 or COP14, it is of vital importance that water issues be addressed in a manner that befits its importance.

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