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  Climate change-induced loss and damage in The Gambia: an investigation of impacts on The Gambia farming community

  International Centre for Climate Change and Development, 2016

  This paper aims to raise awareness about Loss and Damage (L&D) and ignite conversation about how Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Loss & Damage (L&D) can be linked in order to ensure more sustainable resiliency strategies for The Gambia.
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  Climate change and impacts on family farming in the North and Northeast of Brazil

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2015

  Climate change has increasingly been recognised as the main challenge facing humanity in the coming decades. The starting point of this study is the consideration of future climate change scenarios and the uncertainties they bring. 
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  A brewing storm: the climate change risks to coffee

  The Climate Institute, 2016

  Grown predominantly in tropical highlands, Arabica coffee (Coffea Arabica) dominates global production, making up about 70 per cent of supply. Low-lying areas supply Robusta (Coffea canephora ) destined mainly for the low-quality, instant coffee market.
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  Economic Assessment of the impacts of climate change in Uganda: National Level Assessment - agricultural sector report

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2015

  The agricultural sector is a fundamental part of the Ugandan economy, employing about 66 percent of the working population in 2009/10 and contributing about 22 percent to total GDP in the year 2012 (UBOS, 2013).
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  Pulse crops and sustainability: a framework to evaluate multiple benefits

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016

  The potential of pulses - beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils, and other pulses - to help address future global food security, nutrition and environmental sustainability needs has been acknowledged through the UN declaration of the 2016 International Year of Pulses. However, the full set of benefits that pulse crops can offer has not been systematically characterised.
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  Developing beans that can beat the heat

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2015

  In Africa and Latin America, the production of beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, which include higher temperatures and more frequent drought.
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  Africa’s smallholders adapting to climate change: the need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers

  Oxfam, 2015

  The need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers Climate change is undermining the ability of African nations to feed themselves. Women smallholder producers are on the front line of dealing with the impacts, but are not first in line for international climate finance.
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  Vulnerability of Pacific Island agriculture and forestry to climate change

  The Pacific Community (SPC), 2016

  Pacific Island countries and territories already face a range of development challenges due to their specific geographic and socio-economic characteristics, and their generally high exposure to natural hazards. The projected changes to the climate of the Pacific Island region over the coming decades present another challenging dimension that the region will need to grapple with.
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  The challenges of climate change: testing climate smart agricultural solutions for improved food security

  Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2016

  Climate change is likely to have far-reaching consequences for agriculture, natural resources and food security, demanding a response that integrates research, development and policy. Because of the disproportionate impact of climate change on the rural poor, priority investments should be directed towards poor agriculture, fish or forest dependent people whose livelihoods are most at risk.
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  Agricultural productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean and other world regions: an analysis of climatic effects, convergence and catch-up

  Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2016

  The agricultural sector plays a critical role in the economy of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. However, agricultural productivity in LAC countries is facing the rising challenge imposed by climate change, natural resource depletion and environmental degradation.

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