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  Na Ot village case study: Land tenure and resource rights

  The Centre for People and Forests, 2015

  This case study examines eight equity dimensions in sustainable forest management through the case study of Na Ot Village, Na Ot Commune, Mai Son District, Son La province in Viet Nam.
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  Building climate-resilient food systems for Pacific Islands

  World Fish Center, 2015

  This report focuses on the challenges of climate change and food security for the Pacific Islands.
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  Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change

  Elsevier, 2011

  This journal article highlights that agriculture and food security are key sectors for intervention under climate change.
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  Tropical fruit tree species and climate change

  Bioversity International, 2012

  The study focuses on the knowledge which could help overcome threats to agriculture and food security, exploring new ways of helping vulnerable rural communities adjust to global changes in climate. Its particular focus is tropical fruit.
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  Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate resilient drylands development

  2015

  This book is a challenge to those who see the drylands as naturally vulnerable to food insecurity and poverty.  It argues that improving agricultural productivity in dryland environments is possible by working with climatic uncertainty rather than seeking to control it – a view that runs contrary to decade of development practice in arid and semi-arid lands.
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  Clever Name, Losing Game? How Climate Smart Agriculture is sowing confusion in the food movement

  ActionAid International, 2014

  This report highlights questions being raised about the concept of ‘climate smart’ agriculture (CSA).
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  Climate-smart agriculture: a call to action

  World Bank, 2011

  This ‘beginner's guide’ to climate-smart agriculture has a focus on Africa.
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  Delivering climate services for farmers and pastoralists through interactive radio

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2014

  A scoping study to assess demand, opportunities and potential for the use of interactive radio to deliver climate services at scale for farmers and pastoralists was conducted by CCAFS in partnership with Farm Radio International in Tanzania, and Farm Radio Trust in Malawi in late 2014.
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  Towards a comprehensive Strategic Framework to Upscale and Out-scale EbA-driven agriculture In Africa

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2015

  This report aims to challenge the current food insecurity scenario in Africa by laying a case for a paradigm shift from current conventional agricultural approaches.
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  Using Crop Genetic Resources To Help Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change: Economics and Policy

  Economic Research Service, USDA, 2015

  Climate change poses significant risks to future crop productivity as temperatures rise, rainfall patterns become more variable, and pest and disease pressures increase. The use of crop genetic resources to develop varieties more tolerant to rapidly changing environmental conditions will be an important part of agricultural adaptation to climate change.

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