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    Population: one planet, too many people?

    Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2011
    Energy, food, water, urbanisation and finance are areas significantly affected by the effects of population growth. How can the engineering profession respond to key challenges in order to ensure the provision of food, water, shelter and energy in the context of an increasing population?
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    Agricultural technologies for climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries: policy options for innovation and technology diffusion

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010
    Climate Change exacerbates the already serious challenges facing the agricultural sector, particularly in developing countries. This paper highlights technological and institutional innovations required to meet these challenges and suggests ways to overcome the constraints to their development.
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    Climate change and China’s agricultural sector: an overview of impacts, adaptation and mitigation

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010
    This study projects the impacts of climate change on China’s agricultural sector under a scenario that assumes a heterogeneous world with continuous population growth and regionally-oriented economic growth. The paper state that the effect of climate changes on rural incomes in China is complicated, drawing the following findings:
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    African range wars: climate, conflict, and property rights

    International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2010
    This paper examines the effect of climate change on pastoralist conflict in Africa. The rangelands of East Africa is particularly vulnerable to drought, which is associated with climate change. In this respect, the paper focuses its analysis on changes in resource availability contrasting cases of abundance and scarcity.
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    Impacts of climate change on livelihoods: what are the implications for social protection?

    Climate and Disaster Governance Programme, 2009
    This paper explores how rural agricultural livelihoods may be affected by changes in climate. Exploring Ethiopian case studies, the author uses a combined Transformative Social Protection and Household Economy Approach to determine how social protection can contribute to adaptation plans - specifically for the poor and most vulnerable - in the context of a changing climate.
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    Connecting social protection and climate change adaptation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
    This brief argues that social protection initiatives are as much at risk from climate change as other development approaches. The authors think that these initiatives are unlikely to succeed in reducing poverty if they do not consider both the short and long-term shocks and stresses associated with climate change.
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    Socioeconomic consequences of climate change in Sub-equatorial Africa related to the agricultural sector

    International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2010
    This paper addresses the impact of climate changes on agriculture in sub-equatorial Africa. It states that future climate change in Africa may lead to a warming which may be larger than the global average. Agriculture is a key economic sector in the region that could be significantly affected by changes in water resources related to climate change.
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    Real-time evaluation of Norway’s international climate and forest initiative: contributions to a Global REDD+ Regime 2007-2010

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
    The Norwegian Government launched its International Climate and Forest Initiative in December 2007, aiming at reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD). In order to assess the results of the Initiative with regard to its objectives, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) organised a real-time evaluation starting in early 2010.
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    Climate change: impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    Climate change, together with global population and income growth, is a major threat to food security in the world. This food policy report presents research results which quantify climate change impact, assess the consequences for food security and estimate the investment required to offset the negative effects on human wellbeing.
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    Green and blue water accounting in the Limpopo and Nile basins: implications for food and agricultural policy

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    Water scarcity is a critical issue for food production in the poor developing countries because agriculture is the primary consumer of the dwindling freshwater around the globe. This paper calls for strategies for the sustainable use of water in agriculture. Most food in the world is produced using soil moisture from precipitation - known as “green” water.

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