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  Alleviating climate change impacts in rural Bangladesh through efficient agricultural interventions

  RiceClima, 2013

  Rice is the staple food in Bangladesh and crucial for the food security in the country. The alluvial soil deposits, through an extensive river network across Bangladesh, have contributed to a fertile land with high rice productivity potential. However, the frequent occurrence of floods, salinity and drought has repeatedly threatened the food security especially in the rural areas.
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  Farmers' perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies in northern Nigeria: an empirical assessment

  African Technology Policy Studies Network, 2011

  This study examines farmer's perception of the causes, constraints and strategies towards effective climate change adaptation in northern Nigeria. Data were collected from 500 respondents using both qualitative and quantitative approaches through a multistage random sampling technique.
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  Investigating climate information services through a gendered lens

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2013

  This working paper explores the gender dimensions of access to climate change related information. The effective utilisation of information channels is a crucial aspect of adaptation development, yet the people most at risk are often those on the periphery of information dissemination. This is particularly true for women farmers, who are overwhelmingly excluded from many information channels.
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  Tried and tested: learning from farmers on adaptation to climate change

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  Small-scale farmers and pastoralists knowledge and experience of coping with climatic extremes and uncertainty has been largely overlooked in climate change adaptation planning efforts.
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  Training guide: gender and climate change research in agriculture and food security for development

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012

  It has been estimated that over 100 million people could be lifted out of poverty, if women were granted equal access to and control of resources. However, climate change and gender have yet to be implemented into agricultural development in an effective way.
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  Flexibility of scope, type and temporality in Mustang, Nepal. Opportunities for adaptation in a farming system facing climatic and market uncertainty

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013

  Climate change is projected to increase the seasonality in river flows in the great river systems of the Himalaya and impose challenges to regional food production. Since climate change increases the uncertainty in local weather patterns, people’s ability to maintain local agricultural production will depend on the adaptability of local farming systems.
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  Media perceptions and portrayals of pastoralists in Kenya, India and China

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  Through the analysis of newspaper articles and a survey of journalists, this publication identifies gaps and highlights differences in how the media portray pastoralism in Kenya, China and India.
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  Tenure of indigenous peoples territories and REDD+ as a forestry management incentive: the case of Mesoamerican countries

  The UN-REDD Programme and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, 2012

  Programmes to reduce emissions from deforestation and ecosystem degradation, including REDD+ and Payment for Environmental Services (PES), could represent an opportunity to strengthen processes of conservation, sustainable usage and poverty reduction in the Mesoamerican region, particularly in indigenous territories and communities.
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  Protecting carbon to destroy forests: land enclosures and REDD+

  Transnational Institute, 2013

  This paper argues that REDD+ will not stop forest destruction developing countries and the underlying causes of deforestation remain untouched. The paper suggests that because REDD+ is embedded in the logic that environmental destruction in one location can be ‘compensated’ in another, it acts to reinforce the underlying drivers of deforestation and climate change.
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  Climate change vulnerability and the use of indigenous technologies for adaptation among smallholder farming communities in sub Saharan Africa

  African Journals Online - AJOL, 2012

  This study presents empirical evidence on whether and how smallholder farming communities are experiencing climate change variability and impacts, as well as the indigenous technologies they have adopted to respond to these effects. The study was conducted in three sub-Saharan African countries: Nigeria, Tanzania and Sierra Leone.

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