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    Can crops be climate-proofed?

    SciDev.Net, 2008
    Among the most worrying aspects of climate change is its effects on the world's food supply. This article explores the urgent need to put climate change at the heart of agricultural research programmes to ensure the adaptation of major crops to a changing climate.
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    Climate change and rural livelihoods in Malawi: review study report of Norwegian support to FAO and SCC in Malawi, with a note on some regional implications

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008
    This review seeks to assess the sustainable livelihoods projects currently supported by Norway in Malawi within the context of climate change and its predicted impact on agriculture development and food security.
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    Beyond any drought: root causes of chronic vulnerability in the Sahel

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    This paper examines vulnerability to droughts in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso against the background of the 2005 food crisis in the Sahel region. The authors argue that vulnerability to droughts is due to a combination of political, economic and social forces as well as the impacts of highly variable rainfall.
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    The Amazon’s vicious cycles: drought and fire in the greenhouse - ecological and climatic tipping points of the world’s largest tropical rainforest, and practical preventive measures

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2007
    The Amazon forest greatly influences the global climate and may be coming under increasing threat due to climate change. This report explores the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the changes in this relationship that are underway as a result of forest destruction and the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.
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    Spotlight on biofuels: the research challenge

    SciDev.Net, 2007
    Biofuels are described by some as absolutely catastrophic because of their potential consequences, while others see them as the driving force for development in some of the world's poorest regions. This edition of SciDev.Net picks a path between "doomsayers" and "utopians", and looks at the reality of biofuels research and development in the developing world.
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    Promotion of resource efficiency projects: Sustainable Energy for Poverty Reduction, Issue 2, 2007

    Wisions of Sustainability, 2007
    The second edition of the WISIONS publication ‘Sustainble Energy for Poverty Reduction’ describes a range of projects that contribute to this end. One is the community-based adaptation project Solar Pintadas.
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    Climate change, agricultural policy and poverty reduction: how much do we know?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2007
    Projections suggest that, by the end of the 21st century, climate change could have had substantial impact on agricultural production and hence on the scope for reducing poverty. This paper seeks to trace the likely impacts through changes in the quality of the physical asset base, access to assets, and impacts on grain production and on agricultural growth more generally.
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    Biofuels, agriculture and poverty reduction

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2007
    The development of biofuels has generated vigorous debate on economic and environmental grounds. This paper assesses the potential impacts of biofuels on poverty reduction. It argues that the potential is large, whether through employment, wider growth multipliers or energy price effects.
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    Agroenergy: myths and impacts in Latin America

    Focus on the Global South, 2007
    Biofuels (or agrofuels) production has increased dramatically in Latin America over recent years, as global concern over climate change grows and oil prices continue to rise. But are biofuels really a sustainable energy solution, and what are the costs?
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    Biofuel production and the threat to South Africa's food security

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
    As biofuel production continues to expand rapidly all over the world, there is increasing concern about how this will affect food prices, particularly of foodcrops used to produce biofuels.

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