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  Using ecosystem-based adaptation actions to tackle food insecurity

  Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2013

  This paper argues that ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) provides a flexible, cost-effective and broadly applicable alternative for building robust food systems and reducing the impacts of climate change.
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  Climate-driven or human-induced: indicating severe water scarcity in the Moulouya river basin (Morocco)

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2012

  Many agriculture-based economies are increasingly under stress from climate change and socio-economic pressures. In the Moulouya river basin, Morocco, natural water availability is a key resource for all economic activities and frequently occurring water deficits aggravated by climate change threaten many livelihoods dependent on agricultural production.
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  Mainstreaming adaptation into local development plans in Vietnam

  AIT-UNEP Regional Resource Center for Asia and the Pacific, 2012

  This report focuses on two adaptation projects in Vietnam: an assessment of climate change vulnerability in the Cat Khanh commune; and adaptation mainstreaming efforts in Binh Dinh province's fishing sector. Vietnam is taking steps to address its vulnerability to climate change with legislation approved to mainstream adaptation into local development plans.
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  Can REDD+ save the forest? The role of payments and tenure

  Forests - Open Access Journal, 2012

  The success of REDD+ depends on whether it can be economically viable and if any resulting payments are sufficient to cover the opportunity cost plus any transaction cost. Where tenure security over forested areas is weak, REDD+ can pose a risk for forest communities, who could be dispossessed, excluded and marginalised.
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  Malaria and agriculture: a global review of the literature with a focus on the application of integrated pest and vector management in East Africa and Uganda

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012

  Roughly half of the world's population lives at risk of contracting malaria, a disease which disproportionately affects the poor. As such, farming households are particularly vulnerable; malaria is therefore an intimate link between poverty, agriculture and health.
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  From vulnerability to resilience: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) in Niger

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2011

  For decades, Nigerien farmers cleared their fields of native trees and shrubs, exposing their crops to the fierce Sahelian winds. However, the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), in combination with other improved soil and water conservation practices, has helped to reverse this trend.
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  Adaptation to a changing climate in the Arab countries: a case for adaptation governance and leadership in building climate resilience

  World Bank, 2012

  The Arab people have been adapting to climate change for thousands of years, but over the next century global climatic variability is predicted to increase unprecedentedly. This report assesses the potential effects of climate change on the Arab region and outlines possible approaches and measures to prepare for its consequences.
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  The state of food and agriculture: investing in agriculture for a better future

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012

  Recent food crises and growing concerns about global climate change have placed agriculture on top of the international agenda. Decision-makers have recognised the strong link between the dual goals of eradicating hunger and making agriculture sustainable.
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  Local perceptions and responses to climate change and variability: the case of Laikipia district, Kenya

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2012

  This empirical analysis of smallholders' perceptions of, and adaptation to, climate change demonstrates the value and importance of local knowledge in the Laikipia district, Kenya. The paper recognises that agricultural policies are presently short of mechanisms to promote farmers' adaptation, and that this has hindered agricultural production.
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  Turn down the heat: why a 4°C warmer world must be avoided

  World Bank, 2012

  This report, produced for the World Bank by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, attempts to describe what climate change impacts are likely to be felt in a ‘4°C world', i.e. a world where global average temperatures have risen four degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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