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  Climate adaptation readiness for agriculture: drought lessons from the Western Cape, South Africa

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016

  Agriculture is a critical component of national and sub-national economies, yet it is also highly vulnerable to weather extremes and scarce water resources. Climate change is increasing disaster risks in Southern Africa. Despite progress on integrated climate change and disaster risk management frameworks, the 2015/2016 El Niño linked drought severely affected the region.
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  Agricultural practices and technologies to enhance food security, resilience and productivity in a sustainable manner: messages to the SBSTA 44 agriculture workshops

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2016

  This paper synthesizes knowledge within CGIAR and its partners on agricultural practices and technologies to enhance food security, resilience and productivity in a sustainable manner. A number of agricultural practices and technologies which contribute to these objectives were identified and assessed to generate four key lessons.
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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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  Climate change impacts on agriculture and food security in the Caribbean: A food importation perspective

  Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2003

  This report is a sub-component of the Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean (ACCC) project. Its purpose is to determine the extent to which climatic change might alter food production opportunities in countries which have traditionally been major suppliers of food to six selected Caricom countries and thereby alter food security in the region.
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  Climate change impacts on livestock

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2015

  This working paper summarizes projected climate change impacts on livestock across Africa.
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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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  Understanding adaptive capacity: sustainable livelihoods and food security in coastal Bangladesh

  International Water Management Institute, 2012

  This paper analyses data from a household-level survey of 980 agricultural and fishing households in seven sites across southern Bangladesh. We examine the relationship between assets, livelihood strategies, food security and farming practice changes. These households are coping with huge demographic, economic, and environmental changes.
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  Climate variability and gender: Emerging experiences from Western Zambia

  Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013

  This paper uses Sesheke district in Western Zambia as a case study on climate variability and gender and relates it to how the livelihoods of natural resource dependent women and men have been affected.
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  Transforming Gender Relations in Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013

  As part of a process to better understand the role of gender in agriculture initiated by the Swedish International Development Agency in 2009, this book presents and analyses a number of case studies from Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and Zambia.

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