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    Global Drylands: A UN system-wide response

    Convention to Combat Desertification, 2011
    Drylands, or ecosystems characterised by a lack of water, cover some 40% of the world’s terrain. Ranging from cultivated lands and grasslands to savannas and deserts, these parched environments support two billion people, 90% of them in developing countries.
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    Potential effects of climate change on crop pollination

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
    Crop production must meet the demands of feeding a growing population in an increasingly degraded environment amid uncertainties resulting from climate change. There is a pressing need to adapt farming systems to meet these challenges.
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    Future Climate Change and Moisture Stress: Impact on Crop Agriculture in South-Western Bangladesh

    Unnayan Onneshan, 2009
    Scenario of Moisture Stress in soils and its effects on major crops in South-western region of Bangladesh (grid cell: 22.50N - 25.0N, 87.50E - 90.00ooE) has been assessed based on climate scenarios for two projection years 2030 and 2075 compared to the 1990 baseline. The climate scenarios were developed using an ensemble of 15 GCM outputs by using MAGICC/SCENGEN version 5.3 model of the IPCC.
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    Indonesia's Forest Moratorium: A Stepping Stone to Better Forest Governance?

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2011
    This document is a 4-month analysis of the ban on new forestry concessions that the Indonesian government announced in May. The purpose of the study is to help stakeholders on all sides interpret the significance of the two-year moratorium and determine what steps are needed to maximise its positive impact.
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    Assessing the impacts of climate change on community-based sustainable use of forest resources in the Caribbean

    Caribbean Natural Resources Institute, 2010
    The study identifies forest-based livelihood activities in communities, actual and projected climate change impacts on these activities, and possible interventions to increase the communities’ resilience to climate change. Among the issues it explores are the impacts that threats such as increasing severe storms, warming oceans and the rise in agro-forestry diseases due to warmer temperatures.
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    Ethiopia's sesame sector: the contribution of different farming models to poverty alleviation, climate resilience and women's empowerment

    Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2011
    Oxfam commissioned this research to assess the contribution of different agricultural business models to poverty alleviation, livelihood security, climate resilience, and empowerment of women in the sesame sector in Metekel and Assosa in Benishangul Gumuz, Ethiopia....
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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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    Climate variability and change in the Himalayas: Community perceptions and responses

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011
    This study, published by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, investigates how climate and socio-economic change is affecting the livelihoods of the mountain peoples of the Himalayas.
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    Adaptation to climate change and managing disaster risk in the Caribbean and South-East Asia

    Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency, Barbados, 2003
    This report is an of the outcome of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados in July of 2003. Presentations made at the seminar were based on six case studies carried out in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia.
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    Adaptation of fisheries and fishing communities to the impacts of climate change in the CARICOM region

    2002
    This paper is a compilation of information on impacts of climate change on Caribbean fisheries and adaptation approaches to these impacts. It also incorporates discussions and recommendations from the “Consultation on Adaptation of Fisheries and Fishing Communities to the Impacts of Climate Change in the CARICOM Region”, held in Tobago in 2002.

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