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  Climate Risk Assessment for the Intersectoral Program on Food and Nutrition Security in El Salvador

  2010

  The document is a climate assessment conducted for the Intersectoral Program on Food and Nutrition Security (ISAN), and is divided into two parts: (1) analysis of potential risks to achieving the objectives outlined in ISAN, considering climate change impacts, and (2) identification of potential adjustments or adaptation measures that could be implemented to reduce the risks from climate change.
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  Adaptation to climate change in agriculture, forestry and fisheries: perspective, framework and priorities

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007

  Climate change poses severe threats on agriculture. Even though some countries may experience beneficial change to agricultural gross domestic product (GDP), the majority, particularly developing countries, will experience significant negative impacts.
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  Coping with a changing climate: considerations for adaptation and mitigation in agriculture

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009

  This book presents historical evidence of the linkages between climate and food security and the current challenges climate change poses on world food security. It argues that changing climatic conditions are projected to affect food security from the local to the global level as the unpredictability of weather conditions increases.
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  Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: scenarios, results, policy options

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2010

  This report addresses the potential scale and geography of climate change in order to identify which populations and areas will be most affected and to help policy makers facilitate adaptation.
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  Farming’s climate smart future: placing agriculture at the heart of climate-change policy

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2011

  This paper places agriculture at the heart of climate change policy stating that climate change is already changing the face of farming. Increases in temperature, changing patterns of rainfall, more extreme droughts and floods, and the shifting distribution of pests and diseases can all be attributed in part to the increase in emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from human activities.
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  Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in Nepal's Forest Sector: How can rural Communities benefit?

  Intercooperation, 2009

  This paper outlines options for rural communities to participate in climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in the forest sector in Nepal.
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  Planning and costing adaptation of perennial crop farming systems to climate change: Coffee and banana in Rwanda

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011

  The study objective of evaluating and costing the most suitable climate change adaptation measures responding to the Rwandan Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy, 2008-2012, in which climate change and its adverse impacts were recently identified as a high priority.
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  Climate change, water and food security

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011

  This report summarises current knowledge of the anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture. It examines the implications for local and national food security and the methods and approaches for assessing climate change impacts on water and agriculture.
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  Environmental change and maize innovation in Kenya: exploring pathways in and out of maize

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2009

  Maize is a socially, politically and economically staple crop in Kenya. This paper summarises the findings of the STEPS Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya project, which utilised maize as a window through which to explore differential responses to climate change.
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  Climate change impacts and adaptation in Nepal

  International Water Management Institute, 2010

  This working paper aims to create a more comprehensive understanding of how the impacts of CC will be realized at different scales in Nepal (from household livelihoods to national food security), and the many institutions governing the ultimate adaptation process. SectionI, Background, provides background information on Nepal.

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