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    The Role of Policy in Facilitating Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Uganda

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2015
    This study aims at understanding the influence of policy frameworks on climate change adaptation in Uganda. It combines literature review on existing natural resource management policies, focus group discussions with farming communities and interviews with key informants across various policy implementation levels.
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    Adaptation actions in Africa: evidence that gender matters

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2014
    This paper uses descriptive statistics to shows gender differences in terms of perceptions of climate change, awareness and adoption of climate smart agricultural (CSA) practices, and types and sources of agro-climatic information in four sites in Africa.
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    What climate services do farmers and pastoralists need in Tanzania?

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2015
    This report presents final findings from the baseline data collection exercise conducted for Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) Adaptation Programme in Africa. The GFCS programme, having a focus on agriculture, food security, health and disaster risk reduction, is implemented in Tanzania and Malawi.
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    Loss and Damage, Women and Men: Applying a gender approach to the emerging loss and damage agenda

    Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative, 2013
    This paper argues that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) need to pay a particular attention to loss and damage and gender equality.
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    Adaptation Framework: Adaptation of Food Supply Chains to the Impacts of Progressively Changing Climate

    Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2011
    This report presents a framework for supply chain-inclusive adaptation to climate change impacts on agriculture. The objective of the concepts introduced here is to help build climate-proof agricultural production systems and to reduce small farmer’s susceptibility to the adverse affects of global climate change (GCC) by lifting adaptation strategies to the supply chain level.
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    Salinity-induced loss and damage to farming households in coastal Bangladesh

    2013
    Salinity intrusion in soil caused by climate-induced hazards, especially cyclones and sea level rise, is adversely affecting rice production - a key staple food - in coastal Bangladesh. The southwest coastal district of Satkhira is one of the most vulnerable areas because of its high exposure to salinity intrusion and widespread poverty.
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    Climate change, rural livelihoods and agriculture (focus on Food security) in Asia-Pacific region

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2011
    Climate change, rural livelihoods and agriculture (focus on Food security) in Asia-Pacific region Document Type Working Paper Date Updated Not supplied Description Climate change is a major challenge for agriculture, food security and rural livelihoods for billions of people including the poor in the Asia-Pacific region.
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    Evidence to support climate change adaptation in Lesotho, Malawi and Swaziland

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2015
    In southern Africa, the predicted 2°C rise in temperature will destabilise farming systems. Coping mechanisms, livelihood strategies and the cost of adaptation options for smallholder farmers are not sufficiently understood in the region because the majority of research is focused on ecological assessment and identifying the vulnerability of households.
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    The status of agricultural water use, access, and productivity in the Limpopo Basin — opportunities for poverty alleviation

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010
    The Limpopo River Basin is home to 14,000,000 people, at least half of whom live in rural areas. Over ten million South Africans live in the basin - nearly 25% of the national population. The remaining population live in Botswana - one million people, nearly 60% of the national population - Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
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    Policies for enhanced livestock productivity and wealth creation in a changing climate

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010
    Agriculture in Africa is changing rapidly. Agriculture and livestock systems are among the most climate sensitive economic sectors. Many of the climate change predictions suggest that African livestock will be damaged by as early as 2020.

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