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    IFAD Strategic Framework 2011-2015

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2011
    IFAD’s fourth Strategic Framework covers the period 2011-2015. It presents IFAD’s overarching goal, objectives and thematic areas of focus. It also articulates the principles of engagement that will guide operations and how IFAD will deliver against the framework. IFAD’s unique mandate is improving rural food security and nutrition, and enabling rural women and men to overcome poverty.
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    Building climate resilience in South Asia

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    This publication outlines several projects run by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) to improve resilience to climate change in South Asia, concentrating on 'Pakistan's post-flood reconstruction'.
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    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security (CCAFS)

    The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is a 10-year research initiative launched by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) a
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    Assessing the impacts of climate change on community-based sustainable use of forest resources in the Caribbean

    Caribbean Natural Resources Institute, 2010
    The study identifies forest-based livelihood activities in communities, actual and projected climate change impacts on these activities, and possible interventions to increase the communities’ resilience to climate change. Among the issues it explores are the impacts that threats such as increasing severe storms, warming oceans and the rise in agro-forestry diseases due to warmer temperatures.
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    Workbook of climate change impact assessment in agriculture basic knowledge, methodologies and tools

    2008
    This manual presents the range of topics covered during the two-week regional workshop which was held in Guyana and is meant to reinforce the basic skills imparted to participants in the two Guyana workshops. Participants from the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of the West Indies (St.
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    Climate Economics: The State of the Art

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2011
    Economic analysis has become increasingly central to the climate policy debate, but the models and assumptions of climate economics often lag far behind the latest developments in this fast-moving field. This report aims to correct this problem and identify areas where substantially more research must be done.
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    The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus: Solutions for the Green Economy

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2011
    This paper for the Bonn 2011 Nexus Conference presents initial evidence for how a nexus approach can enhance water, energy and food security in a green economy by increasing efficiency, reducing trade-offs, and building synergies across sectors. It also underpins the policy recommendations, which are detailed in a separate paper.
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    Weather Index-Based Insurance in Agricultural Development: A Technical Guide

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2011
    The technical guide is intended as a practical reference tool to guide IFAD, WFP and other donors’ country programme management staff through the steps of implementing a Weather Index-based Insurance programme. It is based on the recognition that weather index-based insurance represents an increasingly viable approach to help smallholder farmers prepare for climatic events.
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    Micro insurance for local adaptation

    Wiley Online Library, 2010
    Insurance instruments that provide economic security against droughts, floods, tropical cyclones and other weather extremes have emerged as an opportunity for developing countries to reduce their vulnerability to weather variability and adapt to climate change.
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    Dam reoperation in an era of climate change

    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia, 2011
    This paper proposes strategic changes to flow regimes in fresh water dams for adaptation to the impacts of climate change.

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