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  Gender and equity issues in liquid biofuels production - minimizing the risks to maximize the opportunities

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2008

  The production of liquid biofuels such as bioethanol and biodiesel is rapidly increasing in developing countries, due mainly to the establishment of large-scale biofuel feedstock plantations. This results in potential socio-economic benefits, particularly in terms of agricultural employment, but also in risks, which tend to be context-specific.
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  Organic agriculture and climate change

  International Trade Centre, 2007

  Agriculture is affected by climate change but also contributes to it. As a sector, agriculture must therefore  both adapt to changes and offers options for mitigation, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and storing carbon. This study explores the mitigation and adaptation potential of organic agriculture.
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  Adaptation to climate change by small-scale Rooibos tea farmers in Wupperthal and the Suid Bokkeveld areas of the Western and Northern Cape

  South South North, 2006

  The project aims to support small-scale farmers in the project area in their efforts to adapt their farming practices to anticipated climate change and to enhance their incomes.
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  Guidance for promoting synergy among activities addressing biological diversity, desertification, land degradation and climate change

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2006

  This report highlights the major biological factors that contribute to ecosystem resilience under the projected impacts of global climate change.
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  Africa: up in smoke?

  New Economics Foundation, 2005

  This, the second report from a coalition of UK environment and development groups, says that efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa will ultimately fail unless urgent action is taken on climate change. The report says that G8 nations have failed to 'join-the-dots' between climate change and Africa. Unless addressed, this could condemn generations in the world’s poorest nations.

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